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Batteries - Jumping Hazards

If your airplane has an electric starter, you have a battery on board and, over time, a number of factors can help to rob the capacity from your battery, making it too weak to start your airplane.

 

Appropriately Stressed Out: Tension and Your Control Cables

Just about every general aviation airplane flying today does so with the assistance of specifically loaded cables. When was the last time that yours were checked?

 

The Rituals of Spring

Ah, yes, spring has arrived in all of its beauty and glory. The bugs are flying, the birds are back in the northern parts of our country... and that's bad news for pilots.

   

What's That Smell?

Whether your plane has rubber bladders to hold the fuel, a wet wing, or a metal tank inside the wing, fuel leaks can result in in-flight fires or a loss of engine power.

 

Snap! Crackle! Pop!

...And other sounds an Airplane SHOULDN'T MAKE! When you think about it, most airplanes are incredible pieces of formed metal.

   

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