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The May/June 2024 issue of the FAA Safety Briefing magazine focuses on general aviation instrument flight training and IFR proficiency. Articles in this issue address the importance of having both the right physical and mental flying skills required in today’s challenging IFR...
The March/April 2024 issue of FAA Safety Briefing magazine focuses on aviation weather and its critical effect on safe GA flying. Articles review some of the many resources and tools pilots use to gather weather information as well as explore some of the...
The January/February 2024 issue of FAA Safety Briefing magazine focuses on the FAA’s Compliance Program and how its foundational concepts have helped advance a “just culture” within the general aviation community.
The November/December 2023 issue of FAA Safety Briefing magazine focuses on winter operations. Articles cover some of the exciting opportunities that the winter flying season offers as well as provide a review of several important cold weather safety strategies. ...
The September/October 2023 issue of FAA Safety Briefing magazine focuses on aspiring aviators and airmen-in-training. Feature articles provide an update on the Airman Certification Standards (ACS), explore the important role of the FAA’s Compliance Program, and offer a...
The July/August 2023 issue of FAA Safety Briefing magazine focuses on flying companions. Building on our previous companion-based editions, this issue is designed for the friends and loved ones who join us in the air or might have an interest in doing so. Feature articles...
The May/June 2023 issue of FAA Safety Briefing magazine explores the FAA’s role in the exciting and rapidly growing world of commercial space. Feature articles take us behind the scenes with the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation and its critical...
The March/April 2023 issue of FAA Safety Briefing magazine explores a few urgent aeronautical situations pilots may find themselves in, and which may require the use of the lesser-known, but equally important distress call — pan-pan. We...
The January/February 2023 issue of FAA Safety Briefing explores mindset, skillset, and toolset items that can help you be a better aviation citizen. Articles highlight the importance of mentoring, modeling, and...
Research conducted by the General Aviation Joint Safety Committee’s (GAJSC) Controlled Flight into Terrain (CFIT) work group report suggests that human bias – particularly plan continuation bias – may be a significant factor in CFIT accidents. It’s important for pilots to know how these human...