Pia Bergqvist

Apple’s App Store has just released Bendix/King’s new aviation navigator app, myWingMan. The app is very intuitive and has some interesting features that pilots will likely love. The app allows for up to one, two or three split screens to be displayed at one time, and by tapping one of the split-screens with two fingertips, […]

This week, Flying became the first publication to experience first hand the effect Tamarack Aerospace Group’s active winglets, which we reported on earlier this month, and control quadrant replacement have on the Cirrus during a flight out of Van Nuys, California, with Tamarack’s president Nick Guida. We were graced with a rare day in Southern […]

Canadian simulator maker CAE, based in Montreal, has partnered with Aviation Performance Solutions (APS) Emergency Maneuver Training in Mesa, Arizona, to provide Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT) to students and instructors at CAE’s Oxford Aviation Academy. CAE says it recognizes the value this type of training has on preventing loss of control in flight […]

Hawker Beechcraft today announced that it is planning to move forward from bankruptcy as a standalone company, negating a deal that was in the works with China’s Superior Aviation Beijing Co. While the company is walking away with a $50 million non-refundable deposit from Superior, Hawker Beechcraft’s CEO Robert S. “Steve” Miller said: “We are […]

On October 14, Brigadier General Charles “Chuck” Yeager completed a celebratory flight to mark the anniversary of his historic first supersonic flight. In pure Air Force fashion, Yeager, now 89, broke the sound barrier 45,000 feet over the Edwards Air Force Base at 10:24 a.m., 65 years to the minute after his original flight. But […]

In conjunction with the annual AOPA Aviation Summit last week, AOPA arranged the Flight Training Summit — a meeting with flight instructors and industry representatives to introduce AOPA’s new field guides to flight training, get ideas for initiatives for the Center to Advance the Pilot Community and announce the winners of the organization’s new training […]

October 14 was no ordinary day for Drew Gryder of Hampton, Georgia. It was the day of his 16th birthday. And Gryder spent this milestone birthday doing something not many, if any, teenagers had done before. He completed triple solo flights – taking to the skies in a glider, a single-engine airplane and a multi-engine […]

What should a student do if an instructor asks him to do something that appears unsafe, against the regulations or otherwise ill-advised?_** **_ Jeff Edwards has been a flight instructor since 1982 and is a former FAA-designated pilot examiner. He has been a six-time designated Master Certificated Flight Instructor. In 2003, Jeff was selected as […]

Visitors to Lockheed Martin Flight Services’ (LMFS) booth at the AOPA Aviation Summit have a chance to get a first look at the new Automated Flight Service Station (AFSS) Pilot Web Portal. The new system is integrated with the company’s live briefers, allowing users to choose between an online briefing, a live briefing from an […]

I attended a forum last weekend at the Museum of Flying adjacent to Santa Monica Airport in which the Friends of Santa Monica Airport (FOSMO) presented questions to potential Santa Monica City Council members. I was shocked at the lack of factual information with which some of the potential council members are basing their decisions […]