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How to Buy a Lancair

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Lancair airplanes are not your ordinary airplanes. They are airplanes that the buyer builds himself. There are other options, though, if you like the look, feel, and quickness of these little planes. Aftermarket airplanes are for sale through ... more »

How to Choose a Flight School and Learn to Fly

By Jeff Miller

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This article was developed for those looking to learn how to fly. It provides a brief description on how best to begin your pursuit of learning how to fly airplanes... more »

How to Determine Approach Speed for Landing an Airplane

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The indicated airspeed a pilot chooses to use on final approach to land is called the approach speed, also known as Vref. Ideally, this speed is established several miles out, and then maintained for a stabilized descent until crossing the end of ... more »

How to Find a Date on an Airplane

By CyndiLou

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If you're a single traveler, it's not unusual to be in a strange city or country, all by yourself, wondering why a great guy/girl like yourself can't find a date. Rather than slinking up to the bar at the Ramada, try these tips on your next flight... more »

How to Read a Private Plane Navigation Chart

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Hopefully you will one day be given the opportunity to go flying in a small general aviation airplane like a Cessna or Piper. The experience will be very memorable. After the initial thrill of takeoff, there's a lot of staring out the windows at ... more »

How to Deal with a Crying Baby on an Airplane

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Like most single travelers, I cringe ever so slightly when I see a baby board my flight. I cringe even more when the baby is in my row. Here are a few tips to find peace when flying around crying babies, or crazed small children... more »

How to Preflight a Cessna 172

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Before you fly you must do the visual inspection required before all flights to ensure that the airplane is safe for flying. There's actually more to it than meets the eye. Some pilots have gotten lazy over the years and either neglect this ... more »

How to Book Travel on Air Bali

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Travel in style by chartering a private plane or helicopter on Air Bali. Air Bali is a helicopter and light aircraft company that provides tours of Bali and the surrounding islands. Air Bali also offers executive charter flights to many hotels, ... more »

How to Be a Wing Walker

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Take the first step out of the cockpit. With the prop wash blasting your face with air and a 450 horsepower airplane engine roaring in your ears, climb to the top of the wing to attach yourself into the harness. Wing walking became popular in the ... more »

How to Book Air Travel on Flightline

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Flightline is a British airline that offers private passenger charters and "wet leasing" services, which means you'll have full use of a plane. These services are useful either when commercial flights can't satisfy the necessary timetable or when ... more »

How to Book Air Travel on Navegacion Y Servicios Aereos Canarios

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Navegacion Y Servicios Aereos Canarios is a small Spanish airline based in the Canary Islands. They offer a variety of flights including charters, air taxis and ambulance flights... more »

How to Book Travel on Landsflug

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If want to reach o smaller areas of Iceland, book your flight on Landsflug, a domestic airline known flying routes to the country's smaller, less populated areas... more »

How to Buy a Biplane

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Biplanes are open-seat airplanes that date back to the earliest days of aviation. Their double-decker wings and semi-exposed engines lend the planes their own aesthetic while their maneuverability and excitingly rough ride make them a thrill to ... more »

How to Buy a Cassa Turboprop

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So you've completed your pilot's licensing and are looking to purchase your own small aircraft. A Cassa Turboprop aircraft line is small enough for personal use and is handy for landing on those smaller airstrips. Here is how to buy a Cassa ... more »

How to Buy an Airplane

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Admittedly, buying an airplane is more difficult than buying a new car. It's not going to fit in your garage and you can't fill it up at the corner gas station. Of course, if you are in the market to buy an airplane you probably already know all ... more »

How to Calm Your Fear of Flying

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Though it's understandable why a fear of being in a little metal container that is flying thousands of feet in the air can cause some people to feel fearful. However, there are many strategies out there to ensure that this fear does not affect a ... more »

How to Charter a Private Jet

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Going through the hassle of an airport leaves many travelers in very bad moods. Long lines, security issues, people drinking and the staff sometimes being rude make flying on commercial airlines not so enticing when you are made to wait. You can ... more »

How to Crab an Airplane for Wind Correction

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It is so easy to fly these days. GPS has taken all the hard work out of navigation. Before the use of GPS receivers that have moving maps, and show the actual ground track, a pilot was required to do very involved mathematical calculations to ... more »

How to Execute a Go Around in a Cessna 172

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Executing a go-around in a Cessna 172 is one of the fundamental lessons taught in any flight school. Sometimes the tower instructs you to do a go-around until the runway clears. If you overshoot your approach, a go-around also can give you ... more »

How to Find Small Airfields

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There are literally thousands of small airfields around the globe. Small airfields are of interest to those who enjoy studying the operations, those who fly private planes for pleasure or business and for those interested in the history of ... more »

How to Fly Backward in an Airplane

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Any pilot can fly forwards, but under the right circumstances, you can fly your airplane backwards, or so it seems. Actually you are still flying forward, but the wind mass is pushing you so hard that from the ground the airplane appears to be ... more »

How to Fly in Bad Weather

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If you do any cross country flying, you will eventually encounter unexpected bad weather. Are you mentally ready for the change that this will possibly cause to your schedule? It's imperative that you have current charts in the plane and are ... more »

How to Get a Weather Briefing Before Flying

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Before venturing into the wild blue yonder, pilots need weather briefings to determine if the flying conditions are safe. There are several methods for attaining the current weather and the forecasted conditions at your destination... more »

How to Get a Weather Briefing While Flying

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A good pilot should be a weather expert. It is important for a pilot to get timely, up to date weather briefings while air borne. Then he can compare actual conditions with those forecasted and judge whether to continue or alter the flight. There ... more »

How to Get Over Fear of Flying

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Aerophobia, or fear of flying, is a fear that is shared among millions of Americans and for those who have it, can be a serious travel concern. Although I cannot offer you an absolute cure for this high altitude fear, I do have some suggestions ... more »

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