SMAC180 Pilot Deviations And How To Avoid Them

Pilot Deviations And How To Avoid Them

Pilot Deviations and how to avoid them. We have seen some consistency over the years in the number and type of pilot deviations. Some deviations cause certificate action and others can cause worse. What can we do to prevent these deviations? Well today we will describe the most common deviations and discuss what we can do to prevent them.

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Cruise Flight:

Pilot Deviations And How To Avoid Them

Common Pilot Deviations For VFR pilots

  • Airspace
  • VFR into IFR
  • Low Level Flight “buzzing”
  • TFRs
  • Surface issues (runway/taxiway incursions)

Common Pilot Deviations For IFR Pilots.

  • Altitudes.
  • Course Deviations.
  • Airspeed Violations.
  • FAA calls lost-comms “Security events” now (if you aren’t squawking 7600) makes a big deal of nordos. Monitor 121.5

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SMAC177 Weather Or Not A Decision Making Process

Weather Or Not A Decision Making ProcessWeather Or Not : A Decision Making Process. Welcome to another exciting episode of Stuck Mic AvCast. We are back from Sun N Fun, discussing the decision making process when weather comes up when your flying. We also have some great picks of the week.

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Cruise Flight:

Weather Or Not? A Decision Making Process.

Russ discusses his decision making process involved when flying to and from Sun N Fun through challenging weather.

We further discuss general weather decision making both for IFR and VFR flying.

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