Proficiency

Our pilot training articles are designed to help you improve your flying proficiency. Bone up on beneficial skills as well as the biggest mistakes to avoid as a pilot. Fly right with articles on topics such as dealing with ice and the most dangerous things you can do as a pilot.

Hot Starts

Fuel injection is a wonderful feature’most of the time. In hot-weather restarts, however’¦

What Is Proficiency?

Ten ways of telling whether you’re actually as good as you think you are

No Ghosts In The Air”¦No Privacy, Either!

The Great ADS-B Scare of 2012

Aviation Careers: We‘ve Only Just Begun

With UAV careers leading the charge, aviation is booming

The Eyes Have It

The difference between “looking” and “seeing”

Cessna 182 skylane underneath

The Logic Of Flaps

Flaps make pilots’ lives easier for those aviators who know how to use them

Expand Your Iceberg

Plane & Pilot takes on AFIT’s 10-day instrument-rating program

Risky Business

Little-known tools that can help make your next flight safer

10 Flying Techniques From Great Aviators

Some of America’s best pilots offer advice on how to fly smarter

Weather Avoidance Techniques

Staying Out of Trouble When it isn’t CAVU

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