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Four times today on a short round-robin training flight, I had ForeFlight alert me to nearby traffic. Each time the screen on my iPad alerted me to traffic less than one quarter mile away, same altitude. When it disappeared from the screen, there was no traffic displayed near us on the moving...

Today I took a primary student to a nearby Class D to introduce tower operations. On initial contact, we were told to remain outside the Class D "for inbound traffic" and that the operator would advise when we could enter. I'd never heard that here before. A Sun Country landed from the south...

Within the past week, three of our five airplanes have had airspeed indicator failures. Two on one day. These are trainers that fly very often, and unfortunately were flown quite a bit during the period of smoke from the Canadian wild fires. Speculation is small bits of ash caused the...

I get my annual (due to special issuance) medical exam every August. Last year, I went for the exam having just had cataract surgery for one eye, but before the surgery for the other. As a result, I was not able to pass the Class Two eye exam and had to settle for Class Three. My existing...

The FBO I work for has a policy of not allowing any independent CFI to teach at this airport. The manager/chief pilot's opinion is that you must be an "approved vendor" with the city that owns the airport. And our FBO has a contract with the city that gives exclusive rights for fuel sales...

We had a bit of snow here the day before yesterday, but our airport surfaces were cleared, and the sun was melting the remnants of the precipitation. I wanted my student pilot to get some traffic pattern experience at a nearby airport, about 20 miles north of here. When we arrived, there was...