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Disregard that Glidepath"Familiarity Traps" was a very good article (October 2011 IFR), and one that a lot of us should learn from to develop...

Can I Just Breath Air?Thanks for your excellent article on aircraft oxygen systems in April. It is a common misconception that these systems deliver...

Where's the Runway?In December's Readback, reader Mark Spencer asked about localizer offsets. In the answer, you said the offset value is not published for...

The Ol' Switcheroo, V2In the October issue, "The Ol' Switcheroo" letter and your response discuss flying an approach to one well served airport, then...

Stepdowns On the GPS?Early on I learned that sinking below a critical altitude is one of the most difficult errors for me to correct....

Thank you for reminding us in Deadly Disorientation (November IFR) that by far the most dangerous part of a day spent flying is not the drive to the airport, but GA flying itself. You said, it regularly kills between one half and one percent of its participants… The public must know this because so many of them are afraid of small planes. Perhaps we pilots should pay closer attention?

Frank Bowlin may have a misunderstanding of how the CDI needle works while the HSI is using LOC signals.

I second Bob Keepings frustration with Jepp FD (Tales of iPad Mischief, September 2012 IFR). Im mostly a weekend pilot and dont use all the features he does, but Ive experienced the screen pinch problem for at least six months now. Most of the time it rendered FD unusable for en route operations, so I also installed ForeFlight and learned to live with NACO en route charts.

When More is Less"Searching the Sky" in the July issue was a phenomenal article. The cascading failures of this new technology are not well...

Recently during an approach to an uncontrolled airport, I asked the Approach controller for a telephone number I could use to contact Approach directly...

IFR Lite? Are You Kidding?I enjoyed Mr. Thorpe's well-balanced article comparing IFR training in the U.S. and the U.K. ("European IFR Changes" June 2012...

On Top...Of What, Where?Thanks for Joe Shelton's article on VFR-on-top operations in the August, 2013 issue. Your information was excellent and quite helpful. I...