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Private Pilot Question of the Day
What cognitive trap exists when a pilot keeps trying to reach the first selected runway despite worsening evidence that it is unreachable?
Confirmation bias and plan-continuation tendency can cause the pilot to discount contrary cues; use objective reachability checks and change early to a safer option.
Commercial Pilot Question of the Day
When using a Part 67 medical certificate for ordinary private-pilot airplane privileges, what is the minimum medical certificate class?
Third class.
Instrument Rating Question of the Day
The flight computer shows 112 knots true airspeed, a 7° right wind correction, and 96 knots groundspeed. Which values belong in the navigation log?
Use the heading chain incorporating 7° right correction and use 96 knots for leg-time and fuel calculations.
Sport Pilot Question of the Day
What does WX CAM identify on a current FAA Sectional?
An off-airport weather-camera location or weather-camera information associated with the charted site.
Flight Instructor Question of the Day
What performance objective does VY serve?
VY provides the greatest altitude gain per unit of time for the specified conditions, not necessarily the steepest climb path.
Flight Instructor Instrument Question of the Day
After loss of charging, can a pilot determine reliable battery endurance from the battery's nominal rating alone?
No. Actual endurance depends on charge state, condition, temperature, electrical demand, and system architecture. Use published guidance and conservative planning; do not treat nominal capacity as guaranteed flight time.
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Question of the Day
Prohibited airspace is charted on which types of charts?
VFR Sectional and Terminal Area Charts and the appropriate IFR En Route Low- and High-Altitude Charts.
Advice of the Day
Maintain a consistent flight training schedule. Long breaks in any kind of training, but especially aviation, will cause a dramatic loss of progress.
System of the Day
Cabin Heating and Cooling Systems: Cabin Heating and cooling systems provide conditioned air for comfortable operations during various weather conditions
Maneuver of the Day
Turns: Turns are required to maneuver throughout the flight, the understanding of which is critical in smooth aircraft performance.
Emergency of the Day
Engine Failure: The total loss of power requires immediate actions which depend upon speed (life) and altitude (life insurance)
Mishap of the Day
ERA14LA450: The NTSB determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: The pilot's inadequate preflight planning, which resulted in a takeoff with the airplane's center of gravity aft of its limit and led the airplane to exceed its critical angle of attack and experience an aerodynamic stall during the initial climb.
