Landings, it's all about landings. Reduced to its simplest form, accident data and interviews with CFI's tell us that the pilot skill that erodes the fastest - and that a pilot doesn't recognize how far it's eroded - is the ability to make a landing, particularly in a crosswind. When getting current again, plan on practicing a lot of landings after carefully maintaining the published approach speed.
No matter how many times we hit the delete key, 2020 is still here. With Abby Normal the new normal, a lot of pilots have been flying infrequently at best, with many unable to do any aviating at all. Our readers are nothing if not perceptive—they know that a pilot who isn’t flying regularly can […]
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