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Flight Safety
SELECTED ARTICLES
Flight Safety is the journal of the General Aviation Safety Council. It is published quarterly and features a wide range of articles all designed to aid pilots in everyday flight safety. Click the links below to read some recent Flight Safety and other articles relating to airspace infringements.
Carburettor Icing. A GASCo paper
The result of substantial deliberations by the General Aviation Safety Council, this paper arrives at some important conclusions. GASCo hopes that the days of the carb heat knob are numbered.
Crossing Controlled Airspace
Click the link above to read the article appearing in the February 2004 edition of Flyer magazine. Go here to follow Flyer forum feedback on this article.
First Slot (Autumn 2003)
GPS is highly accurate but not all that reliable.
How NOT to infringe - Ten Top Tips from the ON TRACK Team
TCAS II and VFR Traffic - the important of using SSR transponders within the context of collision avoidance
Many GA aircraft of all types and performance levels operate underneath the base of, and indeed within, controlled airspace. Click here to read the Eurocontrol ACAS Safety Bulletin number 4 concerning TCAS II and VFR traffic.
View From the Top
Click here to read the article appearing in the August 2004 edition of the AOPA magazine General Aviation describing the liaison arrangements between the pilots of the Helicoper Club of Great Britain and air traffic controllers based at Thames Radar.
CAA DOCUMENT NEWS
The CAA is constantly reviewing, updating, replacing and introducing its regulatory and advisory material. Downloadable versions of these are available free of charge from the CAA website, www.caa.co.uk. AICs are available frmo the AIS website, www.ais.org.uk, subscription to (and downloading from) which is free of charge. Recently-published GA-related material includes the following:
GASIL
Click here to access GASILs.
AIC 47/2002 (Pink 31)
Click here to access the AIC concerning infringements of the Stansted CTR/CTA by transiting aircraft.
AIC 18/2004 (Yellow 129)
Click here to access the AIC detailing current policy on Visual Reference Points.
AIC 48/2004 (Pink 65)
Click here to access the AIC describing the provision of Flight Information Service in the UK.
AIC 90/2004 (Whiet 105)
Click here to access the AIC detailing current AIS services.
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