The FAA has generated an airworthiness concern sheet (ACS), which typically precedes an airworthiness directive. 

They must cover seat belts, but you’re free to go beyond that minimum. There’s no such thing as too much information. 

By the time you read this, those of us in the Northern Hemisphere will be well along on our journey from summer to winter. Autumn’s colors and apple cider will have given way to crisper evenings punctuated with the sound of leaf blowers. We’ll all have to dig our sweaters and warm coats out of […]

Cheap, fast or good—pick two—probably isn’t the best way to find quality aircraft maintenance. 

The bill’s passage ratchets up the rhetoric surrounding leaded aviation gasoline.

The FAA has generated an airworthiness concern sheet (ACS), which typically precedes an airworthiness directive. 

Yes, you may have more options with a partial power loss instead of complete engine failure, but don’t get fancy.

If you’re like me, you subscribe to several aviation-related information sources, of which there are many genres. Some of the ones I pay attention to include brief quizzes plus scenarios designed for us to self-assess how risky a proposed operation might be. An example might be asking if you would take off in a VFR-only […]

Engine failure at night over mountainous terrain is one of the things that keeps us up late. Here’s why. 

What you’re checking, and why, and doing them while airborne and when running lean of peak EGT.