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  Pilot Stalls In Icing Conditions And Recovers Below The Minimum IFR Altitude

  Icing conditions can rapidly deteriorate your performance in a piston aircraft. Here's what happened to one pilot in an IMC flight over mountainous terrain.

  • • Article
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/28/2025
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  8 Ways To Prep For Flight Training Today

  In partnership with UND

  Thinking about flight training? Here's what you can do right now to get ready.

  • • List
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/28/2025
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  Class B Weather Minimums

  Here's what you need for VFR flight in Class B airspace...

  • • Video
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/27/2025
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  How To Fly A Surveillance Approach (ASR)

  When you fly a surveillance approach, you'll fly a full instrument approach using zero navigational equipment. Here's how it works.

  • • Article
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/25/2025

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  Why Are There Mandatory Cloud Clearance Requirements?

  Imagine you're skimming a cloud bank and another aircraft suddenly flies out of the cloud right in front of you...

  • • Article
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/25/2025
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  Should You Follow The PAPI/VASI On Final, Or Aim For The Numbers?

  Should you use the PAPI/VASI as a descent aid for final approach, or should you land close to the numbers to avoid wasting valuable runway?

  • • Article
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/23/2025
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  Runway Stripes And Markings, Explained.

  How can runway markings help your everyday flying? Here are some great facts to know about the runways you land on.

  • • Article
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/21/2025
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  7 Times ATC Is Required To Ask You For A Pilot Report

  Did you know that ATC is required to request a pilot report when the following conditions are observed or forecast?

  • • List
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/21/2025
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  Quiz: Can You Answer These 6 Night Flight Questions?

  Are you ready for a night flight?

  • • Quiz
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/20/2025

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  Should You Activate The Approach?

  Should you use the menu option? We don't, and here's why...

  • • Video
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/18/2025
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  Why Is Mountain Wave More Common In The Fall?

  Here's why it happens in the fall and not the summer...

  • • Video
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/17/2025
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  Special VFR Clearance: How To Use It

  A Special VFR Clearance can get you into or out of an airport with low ceilings and visibility. But do you know when you can use it, and if it's a good idea?

  • • Article
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/16/2025
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  Lost Comm Under VFR? Here Are 6 Things You Can Do About It.

  You always see regulations and tips for lost comm under IFR...but what about losing comm on a VFR flight?

  • • List
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/16/2025
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  What Are The Three Types Of Parasite Drag?

  Here's are the three types, and how they slow you down...

  • • Video
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/15/2025
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  FOD In The Cockpit Causes Two Blown Tires On Landing

  Something rolls across the floor on short final. What should you do next?

  • • Article
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/14/2025