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Lubricants and 172 Moving Parts
Issues with Electric Flaps
Getting Annualed Without Getting Reamed
Special Inspection Checks You Can Do Yourself
Knowing Your Nose Strut
Rigging: The Need for Speed
Stall Characteristics
Leaning Procedures
Symptoms of Common In-Flight Problems
Electrical Failures
Slipping With Flaps
Where and Where Not to Push
Fuel Fundamentals
The H2AD Engine - Special Considerations
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by Lanny Strickland
On
this page you will find a
variety of articles written by
professionals in aviation. Each
is free to all readers of
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information to share with
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 Cessna
172 Safety Review
by
Bruce
Landsberg
Exec. Director, AOPA/ASF
The
world's most popular airplane, not
surprisingly, has a great safety
record. Safety and simplicity sell.
In this safety review, the AOPA Air
Safety Foundation looked at all the
Cessna 172 accidents that occurred
from 1982 through 1988 - more than
1,600 of them.
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A Healthy Respect for
Useful Load
by
Russell Still
You
might not hear it as often with
172s, but how many times have you
heard a 182 pilot say that as long
as he could get the doors shut, he
could take off?
The story I am about to tell you
involves a Skyhawk pilot who seemingly
should have noticed the overloaded
condition using even the wildest of
SWAG guesses....more
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 Cessnas
Mass Flight
Into Airventure 2008
by
Gil Velez
On July 26, 2008, the Cessnas 2
Oshkosh group will conduct a mass
arrival into the Wittman Regional
Airport (KOSH) in Oshkosh,
Wisconsin. It will be the third for
our group and the first in
partnership with the Cessna Pilots
Association.
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 When
May I Log PIC Time?
by Mark Kolber
Although this article isn't in the exclusive domain
of Cessna 172 pilots, it does cover a question that repeatedly comes up. Pilots
in general frequently misunderstand when they may, or may not, log flight time as
PIC time. Keep in mind that the FAA treats "acting as pilot in command" and "logging
pilot in command time" as
different concepts. ...more
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