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Private Pilot Question of the Day
A large boat wake crosses the intended high-speed taxi path. What is the best response?
Reduce power to idle and idle taxi across at about a 45-degree angle if possible, or wait or reposition until the wake is no longer hazardous.
Commercial Pilot Question of the Day
A trim malfunction has been isolated, but normal trim remains unavailable. The airplane is controllable with sustained pressure. What should guide approach and landing planning?
Use the applicable procedure, assess controllability and workload as speed or configuration changes, and select a suitable landing plan that preserves control margins.
Instrument Rating Question of the Day
In middle latitudes, what approximate cloud-base range defines the middle-cloud family?
About 6,500 to 23,000 feet above the surface.
Sport Pilot Question of the Day
How should a pilot use Flight Service information in operational decision-making?
Integrate briefing and inflight information with aircraft capability, personal limits, alternatives, and changing conditions to manage risk.
Flight Instructor Question of the Day
What is scenario-based training primarily intended to develop?
Aeronautical decision-making, risk management, situational awareness, resource use, and transfer of knowledge and skill to operations.
Flight Instructor Instrument Question of the Day
What does practicality mean in lesson planning?
Plan for the actual training environment, available time, aircraft or training device, learner needs, and the type and quantity of instructional aids that can be used.
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Question of the Day
How should a pilot interpret a taxiway direction sign?
As yellow-background guidance showing the direction to intersecting taxiways, not as a clearance to move contrary to ATC instructions.
Advice of the Day
Maintain a consistent flight training schedule. Long breaks in any kind of training, but especially aviation, will cause a dramatic loss of progress.
System of the Day
Cabin Heating and Cooling Systems: Cabin Heating and cooling systems provide conditioned air for comfortable operations during various weather conditions
Maneuver of the Day
Trimming The Aircraft: Aircraft trim reduces sustained control force for a selected flight condition, lowering workload without replacing active use of the primary flight controls.
Emergency of the Day
Engine Failure: The total loss of power requires immediate actions which depend upon speed (life) and altitude (life insurance)
Mishap of the Day
ERA14LA450: The NTSB determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: The pilot's inadequate preflight planning, which resulted in a takeoff with the airplane's center of gravity aft of its limit and led the airplane to exceed its critical angle of attack and experience an aerodynamic stall during the initial climb.
