by Ben Winton | Jan 17, 2018 | Discussion Topics, Flight Scenarios
If you are cleared by PHX Approach Control to conduct a practice instrument approach into an airport within Class D airspace, can you do so without establishing 2-way communications with the tower? In the PHX area, some pilots recently have turned away from the Class...
by Ben Winton | Jan 10, 2018 | Meeting Minutes
From Sky Harbor, to Deer Valley to Coolidge, and beyond, airspace, ATC procedures and airport operational issues dominated concerns at the recent AFTW meeting. Instructors also are reminded to evaluate English-language proficiency of their students; tower controllers...
by Ben Winton | Nov 11, 2017 | Meeting Minutes
Lots of discussion surfaced at November’s AFTW meeting on testing procedures for Private Pilot candidates, including short-field landings and stalls. Remember, stalls must go to a full break during the flight test! New procedures for Instrument Proficiency...
by Ben Winton | Jul 30, 2017 | Meeting Minutes
Hot zones for flight-training practice areas in Prescott, Phoenix and Tucson areas are being published on bot the AFTW znd APA sites, as well as AFTW’s Facebook groups page. Watch for new links when you go to the charts pages on these sites. Uncharted parachute...
by Ben Winton | Mar 8, 2017 | Meeting Minutes
Don’t miss the AFTW meeting minutes from March 8. They contain handy and valuable flight training and safety tips, and some important updates for airports, training airspace. The PDF is available via this link.
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