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• When To Go Visual?
• Seperation Anxiety
• VFR Diversions
• Wildfire TFRs
• GA's Rodney Dangerfield

• Maneuvers
• Safety Policy
• IMC Emergencies
• Backcountry Culture
• High-Lift Devices

• Takeoff Performance
• Part 135 Transition
• Smarter Than Direct
• Ground Ops
• Paperwork

• Twenty Miles?
• Flight Review Options
• Inop Equipment
• Accident Stats
• Approach Gates

• Keep Your Speed Up
• Why Do Stalls?
• Post-Maintenance
• Radar Gaps
• Brakes

• Sidestepping Storms
• Maximum Flight Reviews
• Tiedown Tales
• Risk Assessment Tools
• Props

• The Risk Of Engine Failure
• Vauum Systems
• Just Go Around
• Visualizing Wind
• Low-Viz Takeoffs

• Icon's A5
• Cockpits by Braille
• Spot Landings
• Homebuilts Safety
• The Alternate Missed

• The Two-Pilot Problem
• Freight Dogs
• Smoke In The Cockpit!
• Which Airspeed?
• Alternates

• The Ice Queen Cometh
• DIY Transitions?
• A Renter's Lament
• Don't Be That Guy
• BasicMed Update

When it does, that new generation of personal aircraft likely will include technologies designed to prevent accidents. Things like envelope protection, where the machine doesnt allow its pilot to put it into an unsafe situation. Technologies like GPS and ADS-B are a given, along with a networked operating environment where it and all other nearby aircraft talk to each other to manage collision avoidance, sequencing and efficient routing. Operator certification wont be nearly as complex, time-consuming or expensive as it is today.

Im not a native Floridian, so I generally pay great attention to local weather forecasts when they include the words tropical storm or hurricane followed by someones first name. And because Ive never seen such weather-beyond the occasional tropical low that spreads relatively benign wind and rain across the state-Ive decided its a life experience I can do without. So it was in September with Hurricane Irma.