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Mar 08: Heads Up Print E-mail
I’d love to hear from readers about Close Calls of all sorts, not just traffic related incidents. Unexpected weather developments, maintenance mishaps, planning blunders. Anything that might have challenged your skills or your nerves (or likely both). Stay tuned in the coming months for a broader range of interesting and informative tales from fellow pilots.
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Feb 08: A Rapid Return Print E-mail
I welcome and very much appreciate all of the great feedback I receive from my readers. I’m grateful to those of you who take the time to share your stories with me and am truly honored to in turn share them with over 300,000 others. There are lessons being learned here… maybe thousands of times over. I look forward to continuing our good work together. It’s especially inspiring to me when users of the technology I endorse and trade exude to me some measure of the same passion I feel for it when speaking of their own experiences. This month’s Close Call is one of those experiences.
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Jan 08: Lucky Numbers Print E-mail
As an instrument rated pilot, our pilot always flew cross country IFR and this day was no exception. About three years ago, our pilot and his wife were returning in their Cessna 182 to their home base in the San Diego area from visiting their grandchildren in central California. Everything was routine until they landed at the airport.
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Dec 07: The Bounds of Complacency Print E-mail
This month’s Close Call comes from our Facebook group. Our pilot was working on their private pilot license doing her second solo in the circuit (traffic pattern).
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Nov 07: Flight Following: A Controller’s Perspective Print E-mail
The reason for Close Calls and my personal mission to become a very public collision avoidance advocate was a fatal mid-air collision a little over a year ago that occurred near my home airport.
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