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Is it time to buy your first airplane?

Is It Time To Buy Your First Airplane?

Whether you are learning to fly for fun or as a career, the journey of becoming a pilot is marked by many milestones. Among these, purchasing your first airplane can be one of the most significant. The price of new single-engine airplanes has surged to well over $400,000 in
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Don't Let Glass Be Your Crutch

Don’t Let Glass Be Your Crutch

Glass Cockpits first entered service with the military in the late 60s and early 70s. These consisted of a multi-function display in the F-111. By the late 70s and early 80s, NASA primarily used electronic flight displays on many platforms to enhance situational awareness. By the 1990s, LCD panels
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American Flyers | The Instrument Proficiency Check

The Instrument Proficiency Check

By Steven Daun, National Chief Pilot Unlike the Flight Review, the Instrument Proficiency Check (IPC) is only required if a pilot’s instrument currency lapses—there is no regularly recurring requirement for an IPC. As long as instrument-rated pilots accomplish the approach currency requirements of 14 CFR 61.57, they may never
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