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CAREER PILOT
Landing your dream job
CAREER PILOT is designed to help
you get your flying career off to the
best start (www.aopa.org/careerpilot).
FUEL MANAGEMENT
Tracking fuel burn can help avoid surprises
» By Pete Bedell
AIRPORT SIGNS
AND MARKINGS
Being able to interpret airport
signs and markings at a glance
is one of the best ways to steer
clear of a potential runway incursion. Take this Air Safety Institute
Safety Quiz to see how well you
know your airport (www.aopa.
org/Education?Safety-Quizzes).
QUICK. WHAT WOULD you do if you determined
that you had a leak in the right fuel tank of your
airplane? In what position would you place the
fuel selector? It’s sort of a trick question, but
this has played a role in some spectacular neardisasters in airliners. Read on for the answer.
Ever heard of the Gimli Glider? That was
an Air Canada Boeing 767 that took off in
1983 with far less fuel than it was supposed to
have (thanks to an erroneous liters-to-gallons
conversion) and glided to a successful landing
in Gimli, Manitoba, following fuel exhaustion.
How about Air Transat Flight 236 in 2001, an
Airbus A330 that made a dead-stick landing
in the Azores after experiencing a fuel leak
while crossing the Atlantic? As is the case with
many airliner incidents, a chain of events and
bad decisions required these pilots to resort
to heroics (and luck) to turn these events into
successful outcomes. Of course, the point is to
avoid needing heroism to save the day. Both
crews were placed under extreme scrutiny
for getting into such a predicament in the first
place, but the blame wasn’t entirely on them.
In response to my opening question, if you
answered, “switch to the left tank,” in most
cases you’d be wrong. If you have a fuel leak
in the right tank, you’d want to burn as much
fuel out of it as possible, in order to preserve
what you have in the remaining tank(s) to get
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Flight Training - October 2013
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Flight Training - October 2013
Flight Training - October 2013
Contents
Member Benefits
Right Seat
Centerline
Letters
Night Flight
Success Story Flight Training Excellence Award Winner
How It Works
After the Checkride
AOPA Action
News From Airventure 2013
ASI News
Tech Tip
Final Exam
Flight Lesson
Flying Carpet
The Oops List
One Pilot, Many Tools
Stop, Look, Listen
Technique
Weather
Accident Report
Fuel Management
Career Advisor
Tech Talk
Familiarity Breeds Good Training
Perceptual Magic
Advertiser Index
Debrief
Flight Training - October 2013 - Flight Training - October 2013
Flight Training - October 2013 - Cover2
Flight Training - October 2013 - Contents
Flight Training - October 2013 - 2
Flight Training - October 2013 - 3
Flight Training - October 2013 - Member Benefits
Flight Training - October 2013 - 5
Flight Training - October 2013 - Right Seat
Flight Training - October 2013 - 7
Flight Training - October 2013 - Centerline
Flight Training - October 2013 - 9
Flight Training - October 2013 - Letters
Flight Training - October 2013 - 11
Flight Training - October 2013 - Night Flight
Flight Training - October 2013 - 13
Flight Training - October 2013 - Success Story Flight Training Excellence Award Winner
Flight Training - October 2013 - How It Works
Flight Training - October 2013 - After the Checkride
Flight Training - October 2013 - AOPA Action
Flight Training - October 2013 - News From Airventure 2013
Flight Training - October 2013 - 19
Flight Training - October 2013 - ASI News
Flight Training - October 2013 - Tech Tip
Flight Training - October 2013 - Final Exam
Flight Training - October 2013 - Flight Lesson
Flight Training - October 2013 - Flying Carpet
Flight Training - October 2013 - 25
Flight Training - October 2013 - The Oops List
Flight Training - October 2013 - 27
Flight Training - October 2013 - 28
Flight Training - October 2013 - 29
Flight Training - October 2013 - 30
Flight Training - October 2013 - 31
Flight Training - October 2013 - One Pilot, Many Tools
Flight Training - October 2013 - 33
Flight Training - October 2013 - 34
Flight Training - October 2013 - 35
Flight Training - October 2013 - Stop, Look, Listen
Flight Training - October 2013 - 37
Flight Training - October 2013 - 38
Flight Training - October 2013 - 39
Flight Training - October 2013 - Technique
Flight Training - October 2013 - 41
Flight Training - October 2013 - Weather
Flight Training - October 2013 - 43
Flight Training - October 2013 - Accident Report
Flight Training - October 2013 - Fuel Management
Flight Training - October 2013 - Career Advisor
Flight Training - October 2013 - 47
Flight Training - October 2013 - Tech Talk
Flight Training - October 2013 - Familiarity Breeds Good Training
Flight Training - October 2013 - 50
Flight Training - October 2013 - Perceptual Magic
Flight Training - October 2013 - Advertiser Index
Flight Training - October 2013 - 53
Flight Training - October 2013 - 54
Flight Training - October 2013 - 55
Flight Training - October 2013 - Debrief
Flight Training - October 2013 - Cover3
Flight Training - October 2013 - Cover4
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