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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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  When Can You Use Real DME On An Approach?

  If you have DME on board, this is when you can use it...

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  • 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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  Descend Via Clearances, Explained.

  Here's how to fly a descend via...

  • • Video
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/19/2025

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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?

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  • 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?

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  • 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...

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  • 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
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  15 Questions About 'Descend Via' Clearances...Answered

  Feeling confused about "Descend Via" clearances? Here are answers to your most common questions directly from the FAA.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 10/14/2025
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  What's The Difference Between An ODP And a SID?

  In partnership with Garmin

  Here's the difference between the two...

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  • Boldmethod
  • 10/14/2025
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  Is Obstruction Clearance Guaranteed Below DA/MDA?

  When you're below DA/MDA, it's up to you...

  • • Video
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/13/2025
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  What's a VFR On Top Clearance?

  Here's how to use it...

  • • Video
  • Boldmethod
  • 10/12/2025
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  Rotating Beacon Colors?

  In partnership with ATP

  Don't mix up a military field for a civilian one...

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  • Boldmethod
  • 10/11/2025