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Roll over the planes to see parts labelled. Beginning students should name and roll until the names become second nature. Use the Next and Previous button to see more planes. The Show/Hide button lots you see all of the items on the page. If two labels are close together, roll over each of them and [...]

One thing that I thought odd when I first started flying was the propensity or pilots to tell stories about how they really messed up and lived to tell about it. As I listened to more and more of these hanger flying stories I came to the realization that almost all of them involved the [...]

Annual inspections are required by § 91.409. The portions relevant to most pilots are shown below. Note that inspections must be made “by a person authorized to perform an annual inspection” which in most cases means someone certified under § 65.91 Inspection authorization. and generally referred to as an IA or AI. Note that in [...]

There are lots of writers who I trust and lots that I know nothing about. Sometimes I’d like to know their opinion on a subject, so I look for their name on the web site or article. Here are a few:

Rod Machado

Bob Gardner
Bob Gardner, who wrote several books on communication, including Say Again, Please is [...]

Requirements are discussed in the AIM 4-1-19 Transponder Operation. The requirements for transponder operation are covered in FAR § 91.215 for general operation and FAR § 99.13 for ADIZ operation. The Washington DC ADIZ isn’t included in this part, it is handled outside of the FARs as TFR’s. There are multiple TFRs that apply to [...]

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Searching the FARs is a bit more complicated.
The FARs search will look in Code of Federal Regulations Title 14: Aeronautics and Space for the term. Many of the sections are extremely long, so finding the term on the page can be difficult. I’ve been using two part process to narrow the [...]

The Federal Government has lots of good stuff on its web sites. Most of it is easy to find with a quick search if you’d even think of looking for it. This page is a collection of pages you might not even think to look for. You can search on their site with the search [...]