IFR September 2024

The September 2024 issue of IFR Magazine is here, and it's packed with safety-enhancing content catering to accomplished and aspiring IFR pilots, including:

• Special Use Airspace: We tour McGuire Air Force Base's control tower, radar approach control and base operations for a report on why you definitely don't want to blunder into hot Alert Areas.
• Thunderstorms and ATC: There's a lot more going on behind the scenes when ATC warns you of weather you don't want to mess with. 
• Controller saves: There are plenty of lessons to be learned from heroic air traffic controllers who save the bacon of pilots headed for disaster. 
• Weather Wisdom: Flying to California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada this Fall? Our resident meteorologist has sound advice for dealing with a whole new set of challenges in a changing weather pattern.
• Practice Approaches: Flying the same approach multiple ways can sharpen your skills more than you think. Crank up your sim and we'll show you how.