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83. Stuck Between the Showers

Instructors
David Gagliardi

It really seemed like a sound plan at departure. Now you’re hemmed in by clouds above and terrain to all sides. To make matters worse, your weather sources are in complete disagreement as to which airport offers the best chance of finding safe ground before running into a thunderstorm or a hillside.

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82. A Stand-Up Emergency

Instructors
Bret Koebbe

It’s the beginning of a long flight when the engine informs you it has other plans. Now the windscreen is covered with oil and you must act fast. Do you have time to return to your departure airport? If so, how will you approach and land given your forward visibility just dropped to zero?

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81. Flight Following Failure

Instructors
Kevin Plante

Flight following is the best way to get an extra set of eyes for traffic and keep in touch with ATC inside busy airspace. That’s why you planned your trip to use this valuable tool. So what’s your next move when ATC decides to cut you loose just when you need Flight Following the most?

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80. Aluminum Ridge

Instructors
Wally Moran

A smooth ride in clear skies takes a downturn when the airplane isn’t going to clear the next ridge. You can see the problem and know you must do something, but what will it be? Perhaps more importantly, what’s the best way to execute that plan?

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79. Having a Field Day

Instructors
Catherine Cavagnaro

Practice is the stuff of prevention when it comes to avoiding bad outcomes in flying. There is a catch, however: If your practice isn’t fully thought through, it can create exactly the situation you’re trying to prevent. Now you have little more than your reaction time to pick the strategy that separates a survivable ending […]

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78. The Heat of the Moment

Instructors
Colleen Sterling

Killing time on a routine flight, you explore some less-used pages on your engine monitor and make a surprising discovery. The reading seems sure to be wrong—especially because the airplane is happily ticking along—but what if it’s not? And if it is real … is this an emergency or just something to tell maintenance about […]

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77. Roll Reversal Out of Renton

Instructors
Dave Hirschman

Wake turbulence training focuses on avoidance rather than recovery. That’s fine until, despite avoidance plans, you find yourself upside down with a windscreen full of runway. Can you save yourself this late in the game? And could you have avoided it in the first place?

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76. My Grandmother Came This Way

Instructors
Wally Moran

Did you ever dream of flying airplanes in the Golden Age? You know: No radios, no GPS, no moving maps, no datalink weather, limited forecasting abilities, and reliance on a stopwatch plus your eyeballs to find an airport before you ran out of gas. Yeah, us too.

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75. Can You Make Canton?

Instructors
Richard McSpadden

What’s the best thing when your engine calls in sick on the descent to a metropolitan airport?  Do you stumble along over the populated area even though the motor might quit? Do you trek over a less-populated area to a different airport? Or do you land off-airport even though the airplane is still flying?

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74. Prickett Predicament

Instructors
Catherine Cavagnaro

Everyone has had a great day at a local fly-in in a rural town. The departure poses some challenges that aren’t exactly what you planned and aircraft performance isn’t a simple calculation. So long as you have a solid plan to abort, there’s no issue in trying the takeoff, right?

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73. Latch Me If You Can

Instructors
Wally Moran

Having a door pop open on takeoff is neither uncommon nor dangerous … or is it? When aircraft damage and personal injury might actually be realistic concerns, perhaps the motivation to get back down quickly is legitimate. Is this the time to wind the watch or act without delay? 

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72. Rocky Mountain Milestone

Instructors
JP Dice

You know high-altitude flying, as it’s where you trained. You have a capable airplane and a clear plan in mind. The devil is in the details when it comes to calculated performance, though, and a few extra degrees can make all the difference in getting off the pavement.

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