ADVISORY CIRCULARS Advisory circulars are issued by the FAA to inform the aviation public, in a systematic way,…
The FAA publishes AC 43?16A, Aviation Maintenance Alerts, monthly to provide the aviation community with a means for…
The Service Difficulty Program provides for the exchange of service experience with aircraft and aircraft products to aid…
A primary safety function of the FAA is to require correction of unsafe conditions found in an aircraft,…
A special flight permit is a Special Airworthiness Certificate, 14 CFR section 21.197, issued for an aircraft that…
An aircraft owner is required to keep aircraft maintenance records for the airframe, engine, propeller, and appliances. These…
Maintenance means the preservation, inspection, overhaul, and repair of aircraft, including the replacement of parts. A PROPERLY MAINTAINED…
The fact that an individual holds a pilot’s license does not guarantee that he is a good pilot.…
Passengers come in all sizes, shapes, and temperaments. It is not uncommon for a pilot to take up…
Your attitudes and general mental state are just as important to safe flight as the condition of your…
At what age are you considered an “undependable” pilot? The natural process of aging is of more interest…
Noise has always been accepted as one of the prices to be paid for the pleasure and convenience…
Fatigue is a general term which is difficult to define medically. Usually thought of simply as “tiredness,” fatigue…
Although motion sickness is uncommon among experienced pilots, it does occur once in a while. If you have…
An archaic definition of disorientation literally meant “difficulty in facing the east.” To the pilot, it more often…
Cockpit lighting has been the subject of considerable discussion. In military aviation, red lighting was long used in…
A veteran pilot once remarked that night flying is no different from day flying-it’s just that at night…
Vision, even under instrument conditions, is perhaps your single most vital faculty in flying. Yet, the best eyes…
Pilots tend to think of carbon monoxide gas as something produced by a defective muffler, a faulty exhaust…
The word “drug” evokes an image in the minds of many people far different from its actual medical…
If you fly an unpressurized aircraft, you are almost sure, eventually, to encounter the problem of ear discomfort…
Everyone knows that alcohol impairs the efficiency of the human mechanism. This fact has been emphasized again and…
In an unpressurized aircraft climbing to higher and higher altitudes, your body is exposed to less and less…
Some people believe that breathing faster and deeper at high altitudes can compensate for oxygen lack. This is…
Lack of oxygen is the greatest single danger to man at high altitudes, despite the importance of pressure…
We live at the bottom of an ocean of air, the atmosphere, which is necessary to support life…
About 175 years ago scientists first discovered that the prime purpose of breathing was to obtain oxygen needed…
The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) requires that you be properly certificated and physically able to operate your aircraft…
To become a safe pilot, it is not enough that you want to fly. You must also be…