An overheated iPad, an unfamiliar aircraft, a missed checklist item, and convective weather at the destination airport. Sounds like a chain of events. Find out how quick decision making saved the day--but not the stomach contents--of a King Air full of nervous fliers. By Chris Powers.

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Checklist Discpline (September 2023)

AOPA presents the "Never Again" series in AOPA Pilot magazine and online to allow pilots to learn from the experiences of others.

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Finding an Open Space (April 2024)

If lights, landmarks, and even buildings disappear and then reappear, you might be scud running. (By Ben Moses)

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Send us your Never Again and we may publish it in an issue of AOPA Pilot and share it on this podcast. Email pilot@aopa.org.

Scud Running the Hudson (March 2024)

The trials, tribulations, and dangers of owning a warbird. (By Robert Nielsen)

Warbird Woes (February 2024)

Hard decisions must be made when it comes to contradicting your instructor. Who's really in charge? (By Greg Faris) 

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Send us your Never Again and we may publish it in an issue of AOPA Pilot and share it on this podcast. Email pilot@aopa.org.

On Human Factors (January 2024)

The dangers and flying in and around smoke. (By Laurel Johnson) 

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Send us your Never Again and we may publish it in an issue of AOPA Pilot and share it on this podcast. Email pilot@aopa.org.

Checklist Discpline (September 2023)

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