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  7 Ways To Find An Airport Hidden By Nighttime Darkness

  In partnership with AOPA

  Have you ever had trouble finding an airport at night, especially in an urban environment? Here are some strategies you can use on your next flight to safely find the runway.

  • • List
  • Boldmethod
  • 01/17/2026
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  How To Prevent a Bounced Landing

  Here's how to prevent it...

  • • Video
  • Boldmethod
  • 01/17/2026
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  Quiz: 6 Questions To See How Much You Know About Aerodynamics

  In partnership with Lightspeed

  Good luck!

  • • Quiz
  • Boldmethod
  • 01/16/2026
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  Pass Your Instrument Checkride With Boldmethod's Instrument Course

  • • Article
  • Boldmethod
  • 07/10/2025

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  What Are Slope Winds?

  Here's how they can affect your takeoff or landing...

  • • Video
  • Boldmethod
  • 01/16/2026
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  How A Propeller Generates Thrust

  The answer is relatively simple, and it all goes back to how lift is created and directed.

  • • Article
  • Boldmethod
  • 01/15/2026
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  4 Items You Should Brief Before Every Instrument Departure

  When was the last time you flew a complex IFR departure? Before your next flight, review these critical briefing items.

  • • List
  • Boldmethod
  • 01/15/2026
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  How To Use RNAV Substitution On A VOR Approach

  Here's how to do it and still meet the requirements of the AIM...

  • • Video
  • Boldmethod
  • 01/15/2026
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  Quiz: 6 Questions To See How Much You Know About IFR Weather

  How much do you know?

  • • Quiz
  • Corey Komarec
  • 01/14/2026

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  Supercharge Your Flight Training With The All-New Boldmethod App

  Welcome to next-level flight training.

  • • Article
  • Boldmethod
  • 08/30/2023
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  How To Fly a Teardrop Holding Entry

  Here's how to fly it...

  • • Video
  • Boldmethod
  • 01/14/2026
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  Two Easy Rules-of-Thumb For Calculating a 3-Degree Glide Slope

  Have you ever found yourself chasing the glideslope on an ILS approach? How about the VASI or PAPI on a VFR final approach?

  • • Article
  • Boldmethod
  • 01/13/2026
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  4 Runway Illusions, And How To Solve Them

  Have you ever flown into an exceptionally wide or narrow runway, or a runway that has a noticeable slope? Here are the illusions you should expect with oddly shaped runways, and how to stay on the correct glide path all the way to landing.

  • • List
  • Boldmethod
  • 01/13/2026
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  Aim Point Vs. Touchdown Point

  In partnership with ATP

  Here's how to pick both and make a great landing...

  • • Video
  • Boldmethod
  • 01/13/2026
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  Quiz: Can You Answer These 5 Aircraft Fuel Questions?

  What's so hard about aircraft fuel?

  • • Quiz
  • Colin Cutler
  • 01/12/2026