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Vol 2. No. 1 - January 2, 2005

1 - Freezing RAIN!
2 - Let's "Dive and Drive" to that MDA . . .
3 - Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse Control Towers on List for Reduced Operations!
4 - The Most Powerful Piece of Information on Your Sectional or IFR Chart
5 - Akron High School Flight Students Visit Buffalo Air Traffic Control Facilities
6 - Want to Learn Mountain Flying . . . Then Train in Kansas!
7 -"Missing Man" Formation - View from the Front Office!
8 - Long Cross Country Flights: A Powerful Way to Develop Proficient Pilot Skills
9 - "Master Certificated Flight Instructor" Recognition Received!
10 - Product Review: Bose X Headset
11 - Be Sure to Read the Fine Print ! !
12 - Aircraft Separation Assured with "ADS-B"
13 - Scenario Training - - -Tale of Three Pilots
14 - Dan Schaefer, M.D. Solos!
15 - Tailplane Icing - Beware!
16 - EAA Chapter 46 Growing FAST!
17 - Aviation Enemy #1 - Weather!
18 - Cross-Country Planning . . .
 

Vol 2. No. 2 - January 16, 2005

** Don't Let ATC Sucker You Into Icy Clouds Below!
** Use Your Ignition Key to Save Your Engine
** Get That Weather Briefing
** Be Sure to Check those Departure Procedures!
** TRAVEL LOG: Saranac Lake, NY
** Nail That Oral Exam!
** Altitude Bust
** Ravi Bansal Orders Lancair 400 Turbo
** World's Largest Airliner A-380 to Fly Soon!
** Go for that Next Rating!
** Cessna 210 Flight to Iceland: Hear All About It.
** WAAS Update
** The Mother of All Short Field Landings!
** Two Enemies of Flight: Embedded Thunderstorms and Icing!
** Welcome Upstate NY Pilots
** Icing Go/No Go Decisions
** NAFI Issues Press Release
** GPS Fix Naming Humor
** Product Review: Garmin 296 - Best of the Best.
** Presidential Humor
 

Vol 2. No. 3 - January 30, 2005

** Cleared for the Visual . . . but Beware!
** The Greatest Generation - Lt. Col. Dick Waring
** Stay Warm but be Careful
** Flight Hazards and Risks
** WARM FRONTS: The VFR Pilot's Enemy!
** It's the Little Things that Sometimes Get Us!
** Getting From Here to There
** Flight Simulators: The Good, Bad, and Ugly!
** Confusion Abounds
** Check: Seat Locked?
** More CFI Changes from TSA
** Density Altitude - Where More is Less!
** NY Center Visit Scheduled
** Frigid Flying
** Cold Weather Engine Operations
** Self-Assessment Time
** FAA WINGS Program
** Final Altimeter Check
** The Speeding Ticket
 

Vol 2. No. 4 February 13, 2005

** In Not Stabilized at 1000' - Go Missed!
** The Greatest Generation - John Lipiarz
** Air Traffic Controller / Pilot Partnership
** Float, Ski, and Bush Flying
** The Instrument Approach Structure
** Centerline Overshoot . . . Airline Style!
** Departure Procedures - Revisited
** Live ATC Com Feeds
** Suspected Disorientation Takes Life of Cirrus Pilot
** Exchanges Thoughts with the Pros
** Those Pesky Mandatory Reports
** Advanced IFR Training
** Brake Check
** Those Magical Turbochargers
** The Fatal Turn Back
** The Thrilling Overhead Approach
** Weather Charts: Do I Really Need These Relics?
 

Vol 2, No. 5 March 5, 2005

** Stall/Spins are Killing Us
** Expanding Your Operating Envelope
** Four Months, Three Weeks, and One Day to Oshkosh
** Master Your Spin Recovery Skills
** Making Sense out of NOTAMS
** Another Seat-Rail Related Crash
** Unusual Attitude Recovery
** Required Navigation Performance or "RNP"
** NDB Approaches Being Phased Out
** There's Something Wrong with this Picture
** Need a Ride to Oshkosh This Summer
** Think Again
** The Economics of Intensive Training
** Sun 'N Fun - Just Around the Corner
** "Over the Airwaves" Going International
** Fly Runway Heading and Keep the Ball Centered
** Can IMC Conditions Exist on a Dark, Moonless Night?
** Local WNY Aviation Events
 

Vol 2.  No. 6  March 20, 2005

** Stupid Is What Stupid Does!
** Mastering the Delicate Circling Approach
** Becoming a Commercial Pilot
** Don't Descend into the Unknown!
** 30 Day VOR Check . . . No Joke!
** Dumb Things We Pilots Do
** OTA Editorial Intent
** Don't Forget those Alternate Airport Rules
** The Perfect Flight Instructor
** Blood Pressure & Diabetes Woes
** Total Communications Failure in IMC!!
** Men & Equipment on the Runway

Vol 2. No. 7 April 3, 2005

** When Good Judgment Leaves the Cockpit Before the Pilot Does!
** Doing It Right in the Traffic Pattern
** Over 1,000 Pilots and Growing!
** New Sport Pilot Certificate
** Airline Recurrent Training Correction
** Night Currency Can Save Your Life!
** Two Musts for Every Pilot
** Hank Stockwell Secures IFR
** Airport Neighbor Woes - Try This!
** Nine Days to Sun 'n Fun
** DPE Responds to Last Issue
** Adventures in Flight
** Become an Instrument Pilot
** Tube and Fabric Construction Seminar
** 100LL Prices!
** Burt Rutan's Latest Project
** Airmet Primer

Vol 2. No. 8 April 17, 2005

** Errors of Omission
** Best Horse in the Glue Factory!
** Those Inimitable "5 Ts"
** Fuel Management Fatality
** Tales from a Retired Airline Pilot
** Those Misunderstood Rudder Pedals
** Worthy Aviation Endeavors
** TAA Proficiency
** Flight Training Comments from the Past
** Sterile Cockpit Rule: Good for Them/Good for Us
** Adventures in Flight - Reader Review!
** Those Wonderful STARS!

Vol 2. No. 9 May 1, 2005

** Return on Investment
** WIRE'd for the Approach
** How Many Ways Can You Say Good Judgment
** Know Thy Airspeed Indicator
** Ignored HIWAS Leads to Tragedy
** OSHKOSH . . . You've Got to be There!
** High Density Airspace Training
** RVSM - Know What it Means?
** Deadly Spatial Disorientation
** ADM . . . Gone Wrong!
** AVIATING . . . Your Most Perishable Skill
** How LOW Can You Go??
** Leak Check BEFORE You Fly
** "Photo of the Month"

Vol 2. No. 10, May 14, 2005

** What the Mind Beholds
** Oil - Life Blood of Your Engine
** Special Use Airspace - Know What It Is!
** Not 1, Not 2, But 3 Airspace Incursions!
** FIRE - Duh
** PITCH - POWER - PUMP - LEAN - TRIM
** What the Pilot Examiner Never Knows!
** Operating Below DA, DH, and MDA
** CFI Training Foreign Students - BEWARE!
** Distractions - How Well Do You Handle Them?

Vol 2. No. 11. May 28, 2005

** "Acceptable Losses"
** Anniversary Issue
** Have Transponder - Use it!
** Crosswind, Grass, and Hamburgers
** Trim - The Poor Man's Autopilot
** ATC Mandatory Reports
** Standby
** QUOTABLE

Vol 2. No 12. June 12, 2005

** Flying and Table Saws
** FAA, DPEs, CFIs Meet in Rochester
** Record Turn-Out for Akron Airport Breakfast
** Rapidly Deteriorating Weather Takes VFR Pilot's Life
** Akron Airport Awards Two College Scholarships
** Sun 'n Fun Photos
** Know Your Fuels
** Those Who Have and Those Who Will
** Oshkosh AirVenture to be Best Ever
** Mid-Air Collisions
** Thunderstorms - Beware!
** Know Your Engine
** Power On Stall Results in Spin!

Vol 2. No 13, July 26, 2005

** Human Nature - OUCH!
** Joy Riding at 41,000'
** Fatal Stall/Spin in the Traffic Pattern
** Know Your V Speeds
** Scenario vs. Rote Training
** Summer Winds
** Shorts and Softs
** Latest in Airline Security
** Stabilized Approach = Good Landings
** Your Feedback is Scary!
** Three Ways to Improve Flight Safety
** Fly Smoother, Fly Higher . . . Fly IFR

Vol 2. No 14, July 10, 2005

** New CFI Rates - $250/Hr!
** Scenario-Based Flight Training
** Buying an Airplane - Check you mission first
** Those Summer Winds
** Don't Leave Home Without It
** Two Weeks and 1 Day to Oshkosh
** Instructor's Myopic View Limits Pilot's Opportunity
** Runway Alignment
** Quotable

Vol 2. No 15, July 22, 2005

** Hey, You Lock Your Car, Doncha?
** Hitting a Wall
** Going Digital
** What's Wrong with the PTS?
** DPEs' Corner
** Those Curious GPS Approaches
** Know your MVA
** FDC NOTAMs - Could Save Your Life!
** Falsified Medicals
** We've Got to Master Those Pesky Cross-wind Landings!
** One of Life's Lessons?
** When Should I Cancel?

Vol 2. No. 16, August 7, 2005

** Lethality Index
** Another Oshkosh in the Record Books
** All To Common . . . All To Sad
** The Big Lie
** MCA - Minimal Controllable Airspeed
** Let's Stop those Wide Airline Traffic Patterns
** Kinder Gentler FAA . . . Don't Believe it!
** Getting Those Altitudes Right
** Cross-wind Landing Follow-through
** Summer Haze- Beware!

 Vol 2. No. 17. August 21, 2005

** Airplane Utility
** Declaring an Emergency
** A Step Back in History - Dart Field
** MDA Means Just That!
** Aircraft Insurance . . . Be Certain You are Covered
** Dive and Drive
** Jim Kaletta Named Master Pilot
** Current ELT Monitoring Ends 02/01/09
** IMC Emergency Landings - Practice Often

Vol 2. No. 18. September 4, 2005

** Flying Safe
** Lake Erie Crash Takes Three Lives
** Land Foibles
** Why Do 2 Out of Every 3 Flight Students Quit?
** Scenario Equals Surprise
** Another Airplane Stall/Spin in the Pattern
** How's Your Short Game?
** The Skinny on Lean of Peak
** Think Learning to Fly is Hard . . . Try This!!
** Back-To-School Shopping in NYC
** Carburetor Ice . . . Better Believe it!

Vol 2. No. 19, September 25, 2005

** "I'm Freaking, Help Me!"
** Oh That Fog
** Off the Concrete and onto the Grass
** Continuing Flight Education
** WX Distractions Prove Fatal
** Why 2 out of 3 Student Pilots Quit
** Understanding the VOR
** NTSB Study Reveals Pilots' Deficiencies
** Ain't Your Father's Flying Magazine
** Pilot Reports (PIREPs)
** Columbia 400 Photos and Story
** National Airspace System Review

Vol 2. No. 20 October 9, 2005

** The Unreasonable Man
** Learn to Land - In 3 Hours or Less
** Those Pesky Profile Views
** Power Lines Struck - CFI Dies
** Fuel Sticker Price Shock
** Do You Know Your Security Restricted Airspace
** Washington, DC ADIZ to be Made Permanent - Unless
** Icing Season Coming
** IFR Off the Grass
** Fuel Contamination Kills
** Women Fly
** VOR Orientation Revisited
** Do you know the new equipment

Vol 2. No 21 October 23, 2005

** Become your own pilot specialist
** Distraction - Stall/Spin - Fatal Crash
** ADS-B is Here:  Become Familiar
** Low Ceilings and Visibilities - The Big Gotchas!
** Dumb Pilot Tricks Corner
** Media Naivete' Frightening
** Don'ts and Do's - Which is it?
** Fly Over and Fly By GPS Waypoints
** Big Airport Operations
** The Other Members of the Cockpit Crew
** Quotable - My Name is Charles Lindbergh.  Is This Paris?

Vol 2. No 22,  November 6, 2005

** Privileges and Responsibilities
** First Rate Instruction Prevents Tragedy
** CFIT - Controlled Flight Into Terrain
** Mike Fright
** Spring Loaded for the Go Around
** Nearly Extinct Holding Patterns - Do You Remember the Rules?
** Those Magic Magnetos
** Airspeed - Runway
** Akron Airport Improvements Dedication
** Son of Columbia 400 Crash Honors Souls Lost
** Wonderful Flying Movie
** Winter is Coming - Understanding Icing

Vol 2. No 23, November 20, 2005

** Curious Distinction
** Six Biggest Winter Flying Risks
** CFI Botches X-Wind Landing Recovery
** Two Most Important Things in IFR Flight
** The Technology is here.  Let's use it!
** Buffalo NY's EAA 46 On Fire!
** Approaching the Traffic Pattern
** College Options for High School Pilots
** Know your Vy Speed and when to use it!
** An Easy Day of Aerobatics (Video)
** Time to get Serious about Crosswind Training

 Vol 2. No 24 December 4, 2005

** Swinging the Hammer
** It's Winter - Go out and Fly!
** Remember those critical IFR altitudes
** Near Miss at Boston's Logan Points to Need for Cockpit Vigilance!
** Powerful Web-based Training Sites
** 180 Degree Power Off Approach
** Edwards Air Force Base Air Show Photos
** The NOTAM Nightmare
** Don't Touch Those Flaps!
** The Pervasive Internet
** Beware of the Region of Reverse Command
** Understanding Your Vertical Speed Indicator
** From My Heart to Yours

Vol 2, No 25 December 18, 2005

** Weather
** Attempts to save botched landing kills CFI and student
** EAA Airventure 06 - Oshkosh
** IFR Engine Failures
** JetBlue Flight 292 - Audio Tape
** Spatial Disorientation
** The Startle Factor
** It Can't Happen to Me!
** Backdoor Analysis - Icing!



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