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Vol 3. No. 1 - January 1, 2006

** Resolutions
** Expired GPS Database Leads to Nasty Collision
** To Turbo or Not to Turbo?
** Student Pilot's Most Important Question!!
** When a Stall is Not a Stall
** Life as an Airline Pilot!
** Ramp Etiquette
** Aeronautical Decision Making Gone Wrong!
** Regional CFI Workshops Scheduled in Ithaca, NY
** Briefing the Approach
** Reprise Articles
** Aeronautical Decision Making:  To Go or Not to Go?

Vol 3. No. 2 - January 15, 2006

** Risk Assessment
** Over Gross and Aft CG - Anything Can Happen!
** Best Landing Approach Speed
** Feet Off the Brakes!
** Medical Issues
** Training Prevents Possible Tragedy
** NASA In-flight Icing Courses
** Emergency Upset in the Clouds
** How to Waste Your Flight Training Money!

Vol 3. No. 3 - January 29, 2006

** Dangerous Mind Set
** Can you make a short approach when the winds are not just right?
** The Comprehensive Preflight Inspection
** Improving your radio communications
** Crosswind Takeoffs
** Timeless Voices of Aviation
** Weather on the Web
** Getting down and dirty in IMC
** ADM Possibly Gone Wrong
** The Matter of Known Icing

Vol 3. No. 4 - February 12, 2006

** Best of Times
** Like Fine Wine, No Landing is Ready Before its Time!
** When Those Radios Fail
** Do You Have Wimpy Partial Panel Skills?
** Required Navigation Performance
** Master Those Holding Instructions
** FARs - Obey Them, But Don't Expect Them to Save your Bacon
** You have a Glass Panel . . . Are You Still Required to Carry Paper Charts?  You Betcha!
** When Icing Means Icing!

"Vol 3. No. 5 - March 5, 2006

** Following the Rules
** Practice Landing on Air
** OTA Reader, Max Trescott authors book on G1000
** The Go Around
** Lack of Position Awareness Kills Two Professional Pilots
** Keep Those Patterns Tight
** Challenge is Nothing New to Stephen Hopson
** What Should Sally Do?
** Multi-tasking Pilot Dies
** Please Read Articles Carefully!

"Vol 3. No. 6 - March 19, 2006

** Our Dirty Little Secret
** Student Loses in on Landing!
** Are You Sterile?
** Managing Energy
** Watch those Altitudes
** Let's Get the Message Out
** ILS PRM Approaches
** Most Recent Fatal Accidents - and Why!
** Sun  'n Fun
** Where to Focus your Recurrent Training
** Far 91.175 are not Administrative Guidelines!
** FAA Safety Seminars
** Contact vs. Visual Approaches
** Special Message from Boeing
** The Fatal Turnback!

Vol 3. No. 7 - April 2, 2006

** The Enemy is US!
** Latest in WX Graphics
** Invincibility
** Learning Plateaus
** GA Accidents up in 2005
** Final Assembly
** Master the Cross-wind Landing
** Icing Encounter Points to Need for Further Training
** Redundant Systems - Are You Sure?
** Are You Ready for and Engine Failure?
** If it Happened to Him, It Could Happen to You and Me!
** Careers & Technology
** Eliminate the Practice Area
** Barnard Solos at 16!
** Geometric Progression
** Stalls/Spins Kill . . . Unless!
** Know Your Flight Instructor!

Vol 3. No. 8 April 16, 2006

** Rogue Pilots
** Formation Flying
** Onboard WX Detection - Which is best?
** DPs: Know Them or Die!
** Sun 'n Fun - Wet and Wild
**  Impatience Can Kill
** The Dreaded Float
** Did you forget to file and Alternate?
** Know your minimum vectoring altitudes (MVAs)
** Mastering the Climb
** Aircraft Database
** Break the Accident Chain Now!

Vol 3. No. 9 April 30, 2006

** Weather
** Anatomy of a Thunderstorm
** The Runway and the Ball
** Springtime in the Big Apple
** Known Icing - Once and for All!
** Continued VFR Flight into IMC - A Surefire Killer
** 24 Hours in the Life of FedEx
** Don't Try this at Home . . . In a Real Airplane Anyway!
** Quick Weather Links
** Light Sport Fun
** And we wonder why?
** Know Your Fronts
** Escaping a Thunderstorm
** Look out your Window!
** Thunderstorms - Online Training!

Vol 3. No. 10, May 14, 2006

** Heads Up
** It's Annual Time
** Sun Glasses - Eye Protection or Image
** The Infrequent PIlot
** New Pre-flight Briefing Link
** Turbulence
** Why 50% of all primary students quit!
** Wind Awareness
** Flight Instructor Professionalism
** Night Currency
** New Pilot Starts Down 58%
** Spatial Disorientation

Vol 3. No. 11. May 29, 2006

** Paid in Blood
** Assumptions and Aeronautical Decision Making
** Vx and Vy - Do you really know your numbers?
** Veteran Pilot Asks
** Emergency return to the airport . . . Don't Do It!
** Instrument Proficiency - As perishable as strawberries in December!
** Know your X, Ys, and Zs
** Little Airplanes . . . Big Airports!
** Heat . . . the Pre-mature Engine Killer!
** Got Allergies?  Be careful out there!

Vol 3. No. 12. June 11, 2006

** Zero Tolerance
** Airport Traffic Patterns - Whoa!
** Instrument Approach - Look Mom, No Hands!
** Getting in the System
** Remaining Alive in the Clouds
** Don't Want to Spill the Drinks - Get a Commercial Ticket!
** Lifesaving Maneuver Not Found in the Instrument PTS!
** Balloon Landings Can be Fatal
** Finding the Smoothest Ride
** Failure to Track the Centerline - Bad Form and Dangerous!
** The Pledge of Allegiance

"Vol 3. No. 13. June 25, 2006

** Plan B
** Radical Partial Panel
** Saving the Worst for Last
** Happiness is a new Bo
** Become a Cloud Savvy Pilot
** Monkey See, Monkey Do!
** Too Windy to Fly
** Gone West . . . Tracy Dart
** Night IFR - Beware!
** Instant Weight and Balance
** You Go, Girl!
** Controllers Make Errors, Too.  Pay Attention!
** Density Altitude - Beware!
** Simulated Training - Keep it Safe!

"Vol 3. No. 14, July 9, 2006

** Sunshine and Simulator
** Swimming in the Deep End
** Reading the Winds
** Squawking Altitude
** Autopilot Dependence Nearly Results in Tragic End!
** VFR Arrivals into Oshkosh - A Sunday Walk in the Park
** Pilots At-risk Because of Improper Stall/Spin Training
** FlightAware - Just In Case You Missed It!
** AOPA's Project Pilot is Good, But for a Different Reason
** Choice:  Impact Trees, or Stall/Spin in?
** Master Your Take Off Speeds!
** Passing the Test . . . Or Really Learning How to Fly?

"Vol 3. No. 15, July 23, 2006

** The Three Gotchas
** Air Masses and Fronts
** Senseless Tragedy
** Preflight Should Include 15 Minutes in Front of a Computer
** Proper Flap Management - It Could Save Your Life!
** Don't Buy'm, Build'm
** Do You Have the Required Visibility Minimums To Land?
** Flight Review Experience Report
** Landings Gone Right!
** Those Pesky, Little Used IAPs
** Leaning into the Wind

Vol 3. No. 16, August 6, 2006

** 100 Times as Risky
** Be a friend.  File a PIREP
** Simulated Emergency Landing Gone Wrong!
** AirVenture 2006- The Good, Bad, and Ugly
** Runway Incursions - Beware!
** Blind Taxiing Fatality
** They are not required, but we should do it anyway!
** Christian Airman Educational Foundation Formed
** GA Accident Rate Fix!
 

Vol 3. No. 17, August 27, 2006

** Headline: Getting Better?
** Dark, Featureless Terrain . . . and Disoriented
** Hail  -  Hmmm . . .
** Load Factors and Stalling Speeds
** Big Airports, Big Surprises
** Bravo, Jay Rolls!
** Distractions
** But it is too windy to fly!
** Mission first when choosing and airplane!
** Low Level Maneuvering
** Looking through the Glass
** The Skinny on Va
** Victory Celebration!
** Beautiful Summer . . . but Really!
** Currency

Vol 3. No. 18, September 10, 2006 

** Headline: Season Change
** Changing Seasons Hold Surprises
** Primary for Climb
** Approach Lighting Systems
** The Known Ice "Gotcha"
** Mentoring Works
** Transitioning to Night Flying
** Do we have to paint you a picture?
** Briefing the Instrument Approach
** Redundant Checks
** The Unique Challenges of Slow Flight
** Carburetor Ice - Beware!
** The Circling Challenge

Vol 3. No. 19, September 24, 2006

** Headline: Who's to Blame?
** The GPS Direct Myth!
** Talking with ATC
** Hear Live ATC Feeds
** Mastering the Winds
** Fuel Prices - Check before leaving home
** The Growing CFI Problem
** Why Students Fail Checkrides!
** Meet Barry McCollom
** Airplanes vs. Towers:  Towers always win!
** Thirty Years Later
** Formula for Disaster
** The Insidious Graveyard Spiral

Vol 3. No. 20, October 8, 2006

** Headline:  The Unfriendly Skies
** Faulty ADM Kills
** Staying off of the AME Radar Screen
** Playing Russian Roulette with fuel (Duh)
** The 4Ms - ADM made simple
** FAA Announces new Safety Initiative
** Unlocking Weather Flying
** Cirrus Down Due to Ice!
** Watch that Bank Angle
** This thing sucks
** Dew: Beware!

Vol 3. No. 21, October 22, 2006

** Headline: We Rush, We Die
** Beware of the Low!
** Know and use your power settings
** Those who haven't, will!
** Flight student dilemma
** Buffalo, NY blasted with record-breaking October snowfall
** Turn back to the runway proves fatal for RV-8 pilot
** Getting to know your stall speeds
** Increasing the cost of flight instruction
** Lift vs. Airspeed
** Icing Escape Routes:  Be sure you have them
** This thing just sits there
** Windy:  Go out and fly!

Vol 3. No 22, November 5, 2006

** Headline:  The Right Stuff
** The Circling Trick
** What would you do . . . if?
** So what's a few pounds overweight among friends?
** Adventures in Aviation Class
** Are the factories killing us?
** Happy new SR22 owner
** Descending below the glideslope - A quick ticket to the mortuary
** The world's most challenging instrument approach
** Icing choices
** You must know your minimum vectoring altitude (MVA)
** Ice induced roll upset

Vol 3. No 23, November 19, 2006

** Headline:  "Read'm and Weep
** Premature IFR Canceling - Big Risks?
** Light up for safety
** Overbanking in the pattern
** Remembrance - Veterans
** Known Ice - Not the last word
** Airspeed is king
** Adventures in Aviation class is soaring
** Understanding why airplanes stop flying
** Who could possibly describe the thrill
** Wind awareness!

Vol 3. No 24, December 3, 2006

** Headline: "The Dental Connection"
** How many ways can you spell poor judgment development?
** Those Funky Altitudes
** Protect your nose gear . . . Make every landing a soft field landing!
** Margin of Safety
** "Guys, we're going to crash"
** AOPA jumps into the icing debate
** Test thyself
** Factory visits . . . an eye opening experience!
** P-47 heroes

Vol 3. No 25, December 17, 2006

** Headline: Human Factors
** Wake Turbulence Wake-up Call!
** Night Operations Require Special Training!!
** Departure Procedures - Don't leave home without checking!
** New Instrument Pilot Reveals Training Shortcomings!!
** The First Word in Every Missed Approach Instruction is CLIMB!
** Know Your Airway Structure
** Airline Pilot Stress!!
** Have you signed up to receive your Over the Airwaves every other Sunday?
** The #1 Cause of All Fatal Accidents . . . Yet we still do not learn!!
** T-38 Near Miss!
** Fantasy vs. real views when dealing with icing conditions!
** Mastering the needles . . . Get started correctly with your instrument training!
** Flying Memories of Arthur Godfrey!!
** Deliberately Botched Landings!!
** New Online Icing Product

Vol 3. No 26, December 31, 2006

** Headline: Resolved!
** Winter Flight Increases Risk of Carbon Monoxide in the Cockpit!
** Fuel sampling . . . could save your life!
** More on keeping those patterns tight!
** Residual Ice Can Kill!
** WWII German Luftwaffe Gun Camera Videos
** Crosswind Nightmares!
** Computing the Crosswind Component
** Brain Teaser - Ball in the Inclinometer
** Slipping Turn to Final
** Selecting Off-Route Altitudes
** When Can We Descend on the Approach?
 

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