TUS releases video on runway safety

Get valuable tips and information on runway safety, especially at TUS via this video.

AFTW Releases New Procedures for The Stack

The third revision for training procedures for pilots using The Stack at Stanfield VOR, for approaches into Casa Grande, is now out. New holding altitudes, reporting suggestions, and more, are available now.

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UPDATE-New Version: AFTW Practice Area Reporting Points ForeFlight Overlay Version 4.0

New version posted on September 21st, 2018. Download your GPS overlay of the practice areas today and start using it in Foreflight!

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September Safety Topic: Stabilized Approach & Go-around

In a recent 10-year period there were more than 1200 Fatal Loss of Control accidents. Many of those accidents occurred in the approach phase of flight – think stall/spin/crash – and many of those accidents resulted from an un stabilized approach or a failure to go around.

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TUS releases runway safety video

by AFTW Website | Sep 22, 2018 | Safety

Get valuable tips and information on runway safety, especially at TUS via this video.

AFTW Meeting Minutes from Sept. 12, 2018

by Ben Winton | Sep 13, 2018 | Meeting Minutes, Meetings

AFTW releases updated training procedures for the TFD Stack, a new approach procedure is under review for CGZ, and Allegiant and WestJet are testing a new RNAV approach at IWA. All this and more in the latest meeting minutes of the Arizona Flight Training Workgroup....

AFTW Releases New Procedures for The Stack

by AFTW Website | Sep 13, 2018 | Practice Areas, Safety, Training

New procedures to help pilots more safely and efficiently practice Instrument approaches at Stanfield and Casa Grande Municipal Airport have been released by the AFTW. The document spells out dimensions of the so-called Stack, where pilots practice Instrument holds...

New Video Highlights Wrong Surface Landings

by Ben Winton | Aug 6, 2018 | Safety

Wrong surface landings are serious events that occur at an alarming rate of roughly one every other day! When pilots approach an airport for landing, there are opportunities for miscommunication and visual mistakes that can lead to the aircraft arriving on the wrong surface.

Lots of summer runway closures: AFTW meeting minutes

by Ben Winton | Jul 16, 2018 | Meeting Minutes

If not runways, taxiways also are being impacted from Falcon Field to Prescott. Learn more about airport operations issues that could affect your summer flight-training activities. Download the AFTW meeting minutes from July...

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