3 Tricks to make Radio easier for VFR Pilots
As long as you understand the basic structure of pilot radio jargon, you won't struggle for long. Here's the secret:
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Telani Lithgow
- Dec 7, 2021
- 2 min
Recency - CARs 91
Recency in South African Airlaw - CARs Part 91 (Civil Aviation Regulations)
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Telani Lithgow
- May 4, 2021
- 2 min
How to pop an airplane's tire.
I was doing a short field landing in someone else's C182. I landed short, dumped the flaps and hit the brakes hard. Stopped in under a hun
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Telani Lithgow
- Feb 24, 2021
- 7 min
Avoid this fatal Piloting mistake in the circuit.
There is ONE fatal mistake that pilots make, again and again. I sincerely hope that reading this article will ensure you are NEVER ONE OF T
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Telani Lithgow
- Feb 10, 2021
- 4 min
VFR lost procedures.
Airfields have a way of melting into the surrounding terrain and can be pretty hard to spot. This can happen at any level of experience -
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Telani Lithgow
- Dec 4, 2020
- 3 min
178 Seconds To Live
Here is the fatal scenario: The sky is overcast and the visibility poor. The reported 8-mile visibility looks more like 3 and you can’t judg
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Kevin Donnellan
- Nov 7, 2020
- 2 min
Are you the pilot?
The French were bringing the capital ship of their Indian Ocean fleet to Durban. It was large, impressive - and it had helicopters.
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Kevin Donnellan
- Oct 31, 2020
- 5 min
Overcoming Learned Helplessness
Whining starts as an infection but, uncontested, it ends as a disease. We need to dispute negative talk both in ourselves and, for our...
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Telani Lithgow
- Aug 25, 2020
- 2 min
Are you an ASSERTIVE pilot?
The thing is that when the ATC messes up, the pilot dies, and when the pilot messes up, the pilot dies. So the pilot must be assertive when
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Telani Lithgow
- Aug 16, 2020
- 3 min
Just keep on flying
In spite of enormous odds, they did not stop flying until they were stationary, and safely, on the ground.
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Telani Lithgow
- Aug 15, 2020
- 4 min
Flight Training Accidents - low level flight gone wrong
It was 27 August 2015 when one of the worst nightmare to befall a pilot became reality for two young men who crashed a Cessna 172, ZS-NTR ..
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