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AOPA ASI Launches Safety Campaign on VFR into IMC

ASI, which has found that pilots encounter VFR into IMC conditions on average every other week, is running a safety campaign to raise awareness of risks.

By Kerry Lynch • Editor, AIN monthly magazine

April 1, 2022

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Air Safety Institute (ASI) today kicked off a nine-month safety campaign to raise awareness of the risks involved with visual flight rules into instrument meteorological conditions (VFR into IMC) operations. ASI called such flights the most significant cause of weather-related accidents.

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