Dan Pimentel

If you’ve ever ridden the North 40 tram at EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh out past the Forums buildings and noticed a line of beautiful custom-painted experimental airplanes parked next to each other on the east side of the road just north of the Forums, that was aviation airbrush artist John Stahr’s flying art gallery. With […]

Pilots who are used to flying into Northern Colorado Regional Airport (KFNL) near Fort Collins/Loveland—and operating there like they would at any non-towered airport—will need to take careful note of major air traffic control changes coming soon to the airport. Beginning in mid-March, KFNL becomes a “towered” airport with the addition of a mobile ATC […]

The Garmin Pilot app for Apple iOS mobile devices was already a robust and mature product that delivered the kind of exceptional navigation information pilots expect from one of the avionics industry’s leaders. But as the company demonstrates in improvements to their flight deck product line, Garmin is never satisfied with the status quo, and […]

AVIAA, a business aviation group purchasing organization formed in 2017, recently announced a partnership with Carlsbad, California-based LOFT as another strategic partner to provide Cessna Citation simulator training for AVIAA’s membership. The partnership taps into LOFT’s 15 years of training experience on the Citation business jet line, providing experienced flight instruction to Cessna Citation and […]

When H.R.2115, the Vision 100 Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act, was signed into law in December 2003, it endorsed the concept of a Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) to be developed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). A month later, the DOT secretary announced plans for a new, multi-year, multi-agency effort to develop an […]

If you subscribe to the philosophy that pilots love to help other pilots and enjoy building camaraderie as they work to improve general aviation for the greater good, you need not look any farther than South Carolina’s Triple Tree Aerodrome (TTA) to see this in action during their planned 2020 season. At the aerodrome’s many […]

Back in 1997, Steve Jobs challenged the world to “Think Different,” as he and his team of engineers invented a line of desktop computers that turned the industry on its head. Jobs was not only an engineer, he was a visionary, able to marry his intense quest for innovation with forward-thinking creativity. Great engineers can […]

As the future of the aviation and aerospace industries, young professionals–called “YoPros” by the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA)–will meet in Orlando, Florida, on February 26 and 27, 2020, for NBAA’s inaugural Emerging Leaders Conference (ELC). The two-day event has been “curated by young professionals for young professionals” and is designed to inspire and educate […]

After a “long and extremely professional evaluation” by Spain’s Ministry of Defense to select a training system for the country’s future military pilots, the Spanish Air Force chose the Swiss-produced Pilatus PC-21 training system, and has committed to receiving a total of 24 PC-21s to replace the Casa C-101 jet trainers they have used since […]

For the pilots, crews and families that operate vintage biplanes for giving public rides, there are few—if any—days off when it comes to performing important annual maintenance and 100-hour inspections. Meeting the FAA safety criteria for holding out rides to the public when your airplane was built over 80 years ago requires a dedication to […]