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2020

Issue 488 - September 2020

MEL Missteps

Issue 487 - August 2020

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 486 - July 2020

An Old Threat From a New Enemy

Issue 485 - June 2020

The COVID-19 Confrontation

Issue 484 - May 2020

A Day in the Life of a Maintainer

Issue 483 - April 2020

Observations on RNAV (RNP) Approaches

Issue 482 - March 2020

Adventures in Ground Operations

Issue 481 - February 2020

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 480 - January 2020

The "Whether" of Winter Weather

2019

Issue 479 - December 2019

ASRS Year End Roundup

Issue 478 - November 2019

ADS–B

Issue 477 - October 2019

Interactions in Sync – or Not?

Issue 476 - September 2019

Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT)

Issue 475 - August 2019

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 474 - July 2019

The Unstabilized Approach

Issue 473 - June 2019

Controlled Flight Toward Terrain

Issue 472 - May 2019

Critical Equipment Failures

Issue 471 - April 2019

Communication Challenges

Issue 470 - March 2019

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 469 - February 2019

The Hard Line on Runway Incursions

Issue 468 - January 2019

Winter Weather Hazards

2018

Issue 467 - December 2018

Climb Via and Descend Via

Issue 466 - November 2018

Too Close for Comfort

Issue 465 - October 2018

Non-Towered Airport Incidents

Issue 464 - September 2018

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 463 - August 2018

Those Go-Arounds We Wish Were Better

Issue 462 - July 2018

Airspace Violations

Issue 461 - June 2018

Resolution Advisories and Traffic Insight

Issue 460 - May 2018

What Was I Thinking?

Issue 459 - April 2018

Electing the Electronic Flight Bag

Issue 458 - March 2018

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 457 - February 2018

Crew Management of Passenger Circumstances

Issue 456 - January 2018

Awareness and Actions a' La Mode

2017

Issue 455 - December 2017

Small Odds and Interesting Ends

Issue 454 - November 2017

Weather - You're Prepared or Not

Issue 453 - October 2017

Re-sourcing Crew Management

Issue 452 - September 2017

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 451 - August 2017

Obscurations to PIREP Visibility

Issue 450 - July 2017

Windshear Woes Beget Wisdom

Issue 449 - June 2017

Metroplex Mystique

Issue 448 - May 2017

The Forgotten Man

Issue 447 - April 2017

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 446 - March 2017

No Place for Complacency

Issue 445 - February 2017

RNAV Problems - Really Anything New?

Issue 444 - January 2017

...Resolved, that Communications be Improved.

2016

Issue 443 - December 2016

Controller Pilot Data Link Communications

Issue 442 - November 2016

De-Icing the Winter Hazards

Issue 441 - October 2016

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 440 - September 2016

Automation Dependency

Issue 439 - August 2016

Ramping Up Safety

Issue 438 - July 2016

Is Fatigue Factor Fiction?

Issue 437 - June 2016

The Pursuit and Presumption of Balance

Issue 436 - May 2016

Never Again!

Issue 435 - April 2016

The ASRS Celebrates 40th Anniversary

Issue 434 - March 2016

Managing Muscle Memory

Issue 433 - February 2016

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 432 - January 2016

It Could Never Happen to Me!

2015

Issue 431 - December 2015

The Ostrich and the Eagle - Two Approaches to Taxiing

Issue 430 - November 2015

ATC Low Altitude Alerts

Issue 429 - October 2015

Capitalizing on Fuel Management Lessons

Issue 428 - September 2015

A Checklist Checklist

Issue 427 - August 2015

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 426 - July 2015

NOTAM Issues

Issue 425 - June 2015

Adjusting to Speed Adjustments

Issue 424 - May 2015

Maintenance Matters

Issue 423 - April 2015

Autothrottle Speed Control Issues

Issue 422 - March 2015

VFR Flight into IMC

Issue 421 - February 2015

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 420 - January 2015

Ground Loop Lessons

2014

Issue 419 - December 2014

Inflight Icing: Some Cold, Hard Facts

Issue 418 - November 2014

Crossing the Line: Runway Incursions

Issue 417 - October 2014

Non-Towered Airport Operations

Issue 416 - September 2014

General Aviation Fuel Management Errors

Issue 415 - August 2014

The Go-Around Decision — What Would You Have Done?

Issue 414 - July 2014

CALLBACK - 35 Years of Wisdom... and Wit

Issue 413 - June 2014

Experimental Emergencies

Issue 412 - May 2014

Flight Management Errors à la Mode

Issue 411 - April 2014

Three Important Aspects of CRM: Communication, Communication, and Communication

Issue 410 - March 2014

Checklist Checkup

Issue 409 - February 2014

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 408 - January 2014

Winter Weather Operations

2013

Issue 407 - December 2013

Autoflight Associated Loss of Situational Awareness

Issue 406 - November 2013

Expectation Bias

Issue 405 - October 2013

General Aviation Fuel Management Incidents

Issue 404 - September 2013

Automation Issues

Issue 403 - August 2013

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 402 - July 2013

Crossed Wires In Maintenance Procedures

Issue 401 - June 2013

RNAV Standard Terminal Arrival Route (STAR) Issues

Issue 400 - May 2013

Weather and Aeronautical Information Services

Data Link Issues

Issue 399 - April 2013

Gear Up Landings - Getting a Handle on the Problem

Issue 398 - March 2013

Rotorcraft Roundup

Issue 397 - February 2013

You and UAS

Issue 396 - January 2013

What Would You Have Done?

2012

Issue 395 - December 2012

It's a Blast, but It's Not Fun!

Issue 394 - November 2012

Adverse Weather Planning and Tactics,

Two Perspectives

Issue 393 - October 2012

When Autopilots Go Bad

Issue 392 - September 2012

Texting While Taxiing

Issue 391 - August 2012

Night Visual Approaches

Issue 390 - July 2012

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 389 - June 2012

"Get-home-itis"

Issue 388 - May 2012

Intersection Incursions

Issue 387 - April 2012

Thanks a Million! / On the Lighter Side

Issue 386 - March 2012

Right Number...Wrong Result

Issue 385 - February 2012

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 384 - January 2012

Rotorcraft Roundup

2011

Issue 383 - December 2011

When Practice Emergencies Go Bad

Issue 382 - November 2011

Fly the Airplane!

Special Edition - 2011

ASRS Founder Remembered: Dr. Charles E. Billings

Issue 381 - October 2011

Upside Down and Backwards

Issue 380 - September 2011

See and Avoid

Issue 379 - August 2011

The Tao of Flight Management

Issue 378 - July 2011

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 377 - June 2011

A Perturbing Pair: Confusion and Distraction

Issue 376 - May 2011

The Fixation Factor

Issue 375 - April 2011

Motor Skills: Getting Off to a Good Start

Issue 374 - March 2011

The MisManagement Pageant:

Preventable Fuel Management Errors

Issue 373 - February 2011

Sound Advice - Listen to the Little Voice

Issue 372 - January 2011

PIREPS: Pilot Reports Revisited

2010

Issue 371 - November/December 2010

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 370 - October 2010

Managing Resources - CRM, SRM, and MRM

Issue 369 - September 2010

Paperless Flying - Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs)

Issue 368 - August 2010

PAVE-ing the Way to Good Decisions

Issue 367 - July 2010

A Delicate Balance: "Minimum Fuel" vs. "Emergency Fuel" Declarations

Issue 366 - June 2010

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 365 - May 2010

Readers Weigh in on "Cones of Confusion / ASRS Injury & Incapacitation Incidents

Issue 364 - April 2010

Safe Operations at Non-Towered Airports

Issue 363 - March 2010

Pilot and ATC "Cones of Confusion"

Issue 362 - February 2010

Unusual Attitudes

Issue 361 - January 2010

Enticements of Ice

2009

Issue 360 - December 2009

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 359 - November 2009

'Slipin Slidin' Incidents from ASRS

Issue 358 - October 2009

The ASRS Weather Hit Parade

Issue 357 - September 2009

Aviation Training Incidents

Issue 356 - August 2009

Cockpit Technology Surprises

Issue 355 - July 2009

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 354 - June 2009

Communication Factors in ASRS Reporting

Issue 353 - May 2009

Heeding Clues and Cues

Issue 352 - April 2009

Problems with PDC Formats

Issue 351 - March 2009

ASRS Communication Incidents

Issue 350 - February 2009

Fifth Annual Award Winning Performances

Issue 349 - January 2009

What Would You Have Done?

2008

Issue 348 - December 2008

ASRS "Cold Weather" Incidents

Issue 347 - November 2008

General Aviation Weather Encounters

Issue 346 - October 2008

The Unexpected in ASRS Reporting

Issue 345 - September 2008

The "Dirty Dozen" in ASRS Maintenance Reporting

Issue 344 - August 2008

"Short Takes" from ASRS

Issue 343 - July 2008

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 342 - June 2008

ASRS Runway Incursion Incidents

Issue 341 - May 2008

"Did You Know?" - ATC and Emergencies / Hypoxia and Carbon Monoxide Effects on Pilot Performance

Issue 340 - April 2008

Fourth Annual Award Winning Lessons

Issue 339 - March 2008

'I'm Safe' Incidents from ASRS

Issue 338 - February 2008

GA Advanced Cockpit Incidents

Issue 337 - January 2008

Out of the Ordinary Incidents from ASRS Files

2007

Issue 336 - December 2007

ASRS "Ice Capades"

Issue 335 - November 2007

Air Carrier In-Close Approach Change (ICAC) Events

Issue 334 - October 2007

High Density Airspace and Traffic Mix

Issue 333 - September 2007

ASRS Ramp Safety Incidents

Issue 332 - August 2007

Laser Illumination Hazards / Altimeter Setting Reminder / Sticky Wickets

Issue 331 - July 2007

Hurry-Up Incidents in ASRS Reporting

Issue 330 - June 2007

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 329 - May 2007

Incidents at Non-Towered and Tower Closed Airports

Issue 328 - April 2007

Preflight Problems / Coffee Break

Issue 327 - March 2007

ASRS Post Season Game Review

Issue 326 - February 2007

Third Annual Award Winning Lessons

Issue 325 - January 2007

New ASRS Service / Incident Report Round-up

2006

Issue 324 - December 2006

The ASRS Weather Report

Issue 323 - November 2006

"Classic Traps"

Issue 322 - October 2006

Uncanny Tales from ASRS / Dreaded Dilemmas

Issue 321 - September 2006

Issues with TCAS

Issue 320 - August 2006

Interrupted Checklists

Issue 319 - June/July 2006

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 318 - May 2006

"Short on Fuel, Long on Luck"

Issue 317 - March/April 2006

Safety Depends on "Lessons Learned" - The ASRS Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary

Issue 316 - February 2006

"Heads Up"

Issue 315 - January 2006

Fly the Airplane!

2005

Issue 314 - December 2005

Non-Towered Airport Operations - A Cooperative Effort

Issue 313 - November 2005

The Language Factor



Issue 312 - September/October 2005

ASRS Is Going Hi-Tech / Training Lessons

Issue 311 - August 2005

Back to School

Issue 310 - July 2005

The "E Word / The "H" Word

Issue 309 - June 2005

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 308 - May 2005

Back to the Basics

Issue 307 - April 2005

Automation Complacency

Issue 306 - March 2005

Second Annual Award Winning Lessons

Issue 305 - February 2005

Domestic RVSM Reporting / RVSM Incidents

Issue 304 - January 2005

What is Wrong? / Wrong Runway - The Intersection Factor

2004

Issue 303 - December 2004

More Weather Reports

Issue 302 - November 2004

Weather Reports / Slide Show

Issue 301 - October 2004

Scary Tales / Scary Encounters

Issue 300 - September 2004

Rotocraft Roundup / Roundup Windup

Issue 299 - August 2004

Focus on Fuel Failures / Preflight Hindsight

Issue 298 - July 2004

CALLBACK Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary

Issue 297 - June 2004

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 296 - May 2004

Density Altitude / Controller's Corner / Cabin Report / From the Maintenance Desk

Issue 295 - April 2004

The Go-Around Decision / Dysfunctional Dialog

Issue 294 - March 2004

Caution: Clear Weather Ahead / The Voices of Spring

Issue 293 - February 2004

Award Winning Lessons

Issue 292 - January 2004

Checklist Checkup / Gear Up Checkup

2003

Issue 291 - December 2003

Overweight and Out of Balance / Holiday Hints

Issue 290 - November 2003

Marginal Decision / An Icing Warmup

Issue 289 - October 2003

Missed Communications / Miscommunications

Issue 288 - September 2003

Nobody is Perfect?

Issue 287 - August 2003

The Lowdown on Visual Approaches / Airport Selection: The Right and Wrong of It

Issue 286 - July 2003

Is There a Pattern Here? / Is There a Lesson Here?

Issue 285 - June 2003

What Would You Have Done?

Issue 284 - May 2003

The Case of the Unstable Approach

Issue 283 - April 2003

Spring Training: Eliminating Fuel Errors

Issue 282 - March 2003

Safety in the Cab

Issue 281 - February 2003

FMC - Getting Along with the Program

Issue 280 - January 2003

Taxiing: The Task at Hand / New Year's Resolution: "Never Again"

2002

Issue 279 - December 2002

CRM - Always in Season / No Holiday from Natural Hazards

Issue 278 - November 2002

Winter Weather Warning

Issue 277 - October 2002

Some "Thoughts" on Safety

Issue 276 - August/September 2002

Tools of the Trade / "Now Hear This..."

Issue 275 - July 2002

"Get-there-itis"

Issue 274 - June 2002

Gotta Refuel? Follow the Rules / Braving "The Wave"

Issue 273 - May 2002

Cuation: Wake Turbulence / Rotary Wing Wake / Propellers

Issue 272 - April 2002

"Terrain, Terrain - Pull Up"

Issue 271 - March 2002

Non-Tower Airport Operations

Issue 270 - Febraury 2002

Special Interest NOTAMS / Ballooning Misadventures

Issue 269 - January 2002

It's Nice to De-Ice - But Be Careful! / Is There a "Next Time" in Your Future?

2001

Issue 268 - December 2001

Vertigo

Issue 267 - November 2001

"Hotspots" - On the Ground and in the Air

Issue 266 - October 2001

Weather-Avoidance Radar Incidents

Issue 265 - September 2001

Operating Safely at Airports Without Control Towers

Issue 264 - August 2001

Fuel Considerations for Multi-Crew Operations

Issue 263 - July 2001

"Kick the Tires and Light the Fires" - Not

Issue 262 - June 2001

Pilot-Controller Communication Pointers

Issue 261 - May 2001

Unruly Passengers - Deja Vu / Insect Asides



Issue 260 - April 2001

ASRS Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary

Issue 259 - March 2001

Communication Issues from ASRS Reports

Issue 258 - February 2001

The Experience-Procedures Feedback Loop

Issue 257 - January 2001

Experiences with GPS

2000

Issue 256 - December 2000

Safe Communications in Airport Surface Operations

Issue 255 - November 2000

Wake Vortex Hazard at Cruise Altitudes / All in the Family

Issue 254 - October 2000

Passenger 'Saves' / Candy Drops

Issue 253 - September 2000

See and Avoid: Applies to Runway Ops, Too

Issue 252 - June 2000

Experimental Aircraft Notes

Issue 251 - May 2000

Readback/Hearbac Much to be Heard on Both Sides

Issue 250 - April 2000

Passenger Misconduct - Effects on Flight Crew / A Pleas for Taxi Practice

Issue 249 - March 2000

Margins of Safety

Issue 248 - February 2000

Winterside Wisdom

Issue 247 - January 2000

Y2 Confirm Altitude Assignments / Oxygen Irregularities

1999

Issue 246 - December 1999

The Parallax Effect / More on Battery Fire Hazard

Issue 245 - November 1999

Aircraft and Ramp Security Issues / Views from the Greasy Side

Issue 244 - October 1999

Hazmat and PICs

Issue 243 - September 1999

Taking a Stand for Safety

Issue 242 - August 1999

Ramp Safety Revisited / Unusual Attitudes - And Outcomes

Issue 241 - July 1999

CALLBACK Classics "And Now We Are 20..."

Issue 240 - June 1999

Weather ASOS-ciations / Powerline Encounters

Issue 239 - May 1999

Refueling Retrospectives / "Hazmat" in the Hold / Great CRM and Piloting

Issue 238 - April 1999

GPS Goofs / Cabin Crew Priorities / Conditional Clearance Confusion

Issue 237 - March 1999

Incidents Involving Flight Toward Terrain / Expectant Pilots

Issue 236 - February 1999

Where There's Smoke...

Issue 235 - January 1999

VFR into IMC / "Dry Dust and Stray Paper"

1998

Issue 234 - December 1998

The Ice Cometh / En-Gulf-ed

Issue 233 - November 1998

Altimeter Settings Revisited / To Enter "B" or Not to Enter "B"...

Issue 232 - October 1998

Gear Pin Roulette / Gone to Ground

Issue 231 - September 1998

Intersection Interactions / "Helping Out" ATC and Other Crew Members

Issue 230 - August 1998

Caveat Emptor / Overseas Oversights

Issue 229 - July 1998

Taildragger Tales / Wandering Hands...Engine Out!

Issue 228 - June 1998

Carbon Monoxide Alert / Wisdom From Weekend Warriors

Issue 227 - May 1998

Blow Off the Cobwebs / Plan to Close that Flight Plan / Operations at Uncontrolled Airports

Issue 226 - April 1998

The Maladies of Spring / SID Issues in International Flights

Issue 225 - March 1998

Aircraft Rock 'n' Roll / Of Arms and Legs Onboard / Cleared to Land... Almost

Issue 224 - February 1998

Cabin Crew Reports from 1997 / Aerial and Ground Ice Capades

Issue 223 - January 1998

Too-Close Encounters / Weathering Heights / Between a Rock and a Hard Place

1997

Issue 222 - December 1997

Weighty Decisions / Assists and Commendations

Issue 221 - November 1997

Maintaining Safe Aircraft / Communications Problems in GA Flight Training

Issue 220 - October 1997

Did You Say What I Heard / Airspace "Busts" / When Things Seen Are Not As They Seem

Issue 219 - September 1997

Monitoring and Flying a Balancing Act / "CRM Strikes Again"

Issue 218 - August 1997

Clearance Clarification / Eye on the Sky / Shear Luck - And Training / Uncontrolled Shouldn't Mean Uncommunicative

Issue 217 - July 1997

Going Global with GPS / Airshow Bound

Issue 216 - June 1997

Forced to Land, Forced to Leave / On Track of the Paper Trail

Issue 215 - May 1997

Airport Construction Hazards / Low-Level Flight A Growing GA Hazard

Issue 214 - April 1997

Memorable Flying "Firsts" / Out of the Loop During Crossing Restrictions

Issue 213 - March 1997

Winter's Lingering Touch / Quadrasaurus and Other Jurassic Jets

Issue 212 - February 1997

Wake Turbulence Reports

Issue 211 - January 1997

The Domino Effect / "We Climb and Know It Not" / May the Right Ground be Found

1996

Issue 210 - December 1996

Let it Snow, Let it Snow

Issue 209 - November 1996

Safety Issues in International Operations

Issue 208 - October 1996

Avoiding "SAR" While IFR / Creature Feature

Issue 207 - September 1996

Fuelish Thoughts for Weather-Wise Pilots

Issue 206 - August 1996

End of Tail, Not End of Story / Hazmat Revisited

Issue 205 - July 1996

Tricks of Sun and Storm / Taxi To, Not Through

Issue 204 - June 1996

ASRS Celebrates Its 20th Birthday

Issue 203 - May 1996

Aircraft Sick Call

Issue 202 - April 1996

Pilot and Aircraft Tune-ups

Issue 201 - March 1996

Significant Others / When Silence Isn't Golden

Issue 200 - February 1996

Problems with Pre-Departure Clearances

Issue 199 - January 1996

Night for Day

1995

Issue 198 - November/December 1995

Flight Crew Incapacitation / Navigation Mishaps

Issue 197 - October 1995

Improving Ramp Safety / Aeronautical Gremlins

Issue 196 - September 1995

Say The Magic Words / ASRS Research "Snapshots"

Issue 195 - August 1995

Murphy's Law - Aviators' Version / The Adventures of Fido

Issue 194 - July 1995

Among the Mis-sing

Issue 193 - June 1995

Speak Up! / The Whole Crew, and Nothing But The Crew

Issue 192 - May 1995

It's Almost Summertime / MEL-ancholy Miscellany

Issue 191 - April 1995

Aeronaut Adventures / Runway Excursions...and Landing Diversions

Issue 190 - March 1995

The Low-Down on Altimeter Settings

Issue 189 - February 1995

A Frequency of Digits

Issue 188 - January 1995

Winter's Tales... Snowbirds / TCAS to the Rescue

1994