Over the Airwaves May 14th

Welcome to the Over the Airwaves aviation journal. This complimentary bi-weekly e-mailing is being sent to pilots and aviation enthusiasts around the world. Its aim is to promote flight safety, encourage students and new pilots, and to build enthusiasm for aviation in general.
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Over the Airwaves April 30th issue

Lets talk about the weather....
If we pilots wanted to specialize in just one aspect of aviation that would have the greatest impact upon our safety, other than simply controlling the aircraft, it would be weather!
http://overtheairwaves.com/

Over the Airwaves

The Bi-Weekly Journal For the Proficient Pilot.
Volume lll No. 7
http://www.rjma.com/flight/airwaves/vol3-07g.htm

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Flying safe

I'd learned of the job interview only two days before. The trip to Lancaster, Pennsylvania - a six-and-one-half-hour drive from our home in Rochester, New York - would take only one-and-one-half hours in our Mooney M20E. Flying to the interview would be less tiring and more fun than driving, I thought. On the appointed day, the weather briefing was encouraging. At departure time, Rochester was forecast to be marginal VFR. The weather was set to improve later in the morning and remain at 2,500 feet overcast with a chance of two miles' visibility and snow showers. En route weather was forecast to be overcast at 2,000 to 3,000 feet with no ice below 7,000. The weather at Lancaster was VFR.
http://www.aopa.org/members/ftmag/article.cfm?article=3460

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Tips for the VFR pilot on losing altitude from on high

You're VFR, not used to flying high or even flying very far, but the best winds are at 9,500 feet above the ground. So you're up there, marveling at being almost two miles into the sky, and wondering when you should descend.
http://www.aopa.org/members/files/pilot/2003/down0302.html

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The Student Experience: Presolo

The sun was dipping slowly beyond the horizon as I turned downwind for the fifty-eighth landing of my short flying career. At the midfield point, I radioed the tower asking for a full stop, which was promptly granted. Abeam the numbers the mental checklist went into action: carb heat on, throttle back to 1,700 rpm, 10 degrees of flaps, 80 kt indicated airspeed, check the mixture and fuel selector. Everything looked good.
http://www.aopa.org/members/ftmag/article.cfm?article=5300

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The Fine Art Of Cross-Controlled Approaches

We were sitting in the runup area when a Cessna 172 came around the corner on a close-in base leg. The fact that it was close in was unusual enough, but then, as he (or she) curved onto a short final, the pilot deftly laid it on its side in an oh-so-gentle slip, arched down toward the runway, and slowly bled it out of the slip as he straightened out to touch down on the mains, the nosewheel staying obediently in the air during rollout.
http://www.aopa.org/members/ftmag/article.cfm?article=4519

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