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Leading Edge #17: Having a Say in Fuel Costs
By Thomas P. Turner
With skyrocketing fuel costs, pilots are flying less or sometimes not at all. AVweb's Thomas P. Turner has good fuel-sipping suggestions that won't compromise safety.

Leading Edge #16: Tools for Taxi Operations
By Thomas P. Turner
What could be easier than taxiing an airplane? Maybe not so easy, as the accident record shows. AVweb's Thomas P. Turner has some taxi tips.

Leading Edge #15: VFR Flight Not Recommended -- The Go/No-Go Decision
By Thomas P. Turner
If the FSS briefer suggests you don't fly VFR, is it illegal to go? Just how unsafe is it if you do? AVweb's Thomas P. Turner has a system for figuring it out.

Leading Edge #14: In-Close Approach Changes
By Thomas P. Turner
When ATC changes your approach clearance at the last minute, you need to be ready to switch gears fast ... or to say, "Unable."

Leading Edge #13: It's All About Airspeed
By Thomas P. Turner
Airspeed control is about a lot more than trying for 1.3 Vso on final approach. AVweb's Thomas P. Turner says airspeed (and angle of attack) is critical in all phases of flight.

Leading Edge #12: Rethinking the Touch and Go
By Thomas P. Turner
That staple of flight training, the touch and go, has some flaws that need to be addressed to increase safety.

Leading Edge #11: Flight Without Delays
By Thomas P. Turner
Can a GA airplane really slip past all those delayed airliners in holding patterns? Only sometimes ...

Leading Edge #10: Fly It Again?
By Thomas P. Turner
We don't know how many people shoot multiple instrument approaches at an airport with bad weather, but we do know how many people die trying.

Leading Edge #9: Unusable Fuel
By Thomas P. Turner
It's one thing to run out of fuel before your destination; it's another to have fuel on board that you can't get to -- or you forget to get it.

Leading Edge #8: Easy as 1, 2, 3
By Thomas P. Turner
Where do you look first when practicing unusual-attitude recovery? Even before attitude indicators were invented, instrument pilots had a better technique, and it still works.

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