Pia Bergqvist

A tragic accident happened on Sunday morning as a result of a midair collision northeast of Brown Field Municipal Airport located in the suburb of Otay Mesa 13 miles southeast of San Diego, California. Five people were killed when the two airplanes, which were both approaching the airport to land, plummeted to the ground in […]

The volunteers that have been hard at work restoring Doc, a Superfortress that was one of eight B-29s named after characters in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, didn’t quite get the airplane flying by AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, as the group had hoped. But Doc’s Friends, the organization that is spearheading the restoration, says […]

The National Transportation Safety Board released its final report from the investigation of Harrison Ford’s plane crash on a golf course just west of Santa Monica Airport in southern California on March 5. Ford was climbing out from Runway 21 in his open cockpit Ryan ST-3KR, also known as a PT-22 Recruit, when he reported […]

The passengers of a Delta Air Lines Airbus A320 got the fright of their lives on Friday on their way from Boston to Salt Lake City when the pilots of the airliner flew into a storm with extreme hail but subsequently managed to make an improvised emergency landing in Denver. The airplane suffered major structural […]

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has launched a new scholarship to honor John Kounis, the editor and cofounder of Pilot Getaways, who died suddenly in his home in Glendale, California, on July 13. The John Kounis Flight Training Scholarship is a part of AOPA’s Flight Training Scholarship program, which launched in 2011 to help […]

Burt Rutan, who retired from his company Scaled Composites in 2010 only to announce he is building a new airplane in his garage, provided some details regarding the progress on what he has named the SkiGull. The SkiGull is designed as a multi purpose airplane capable of landing on water (it incorporates design details to […]

FlightSafety International is in the process of building a new full flight simulator to train King Air 350 pilots flying behind Rockwell Collins’ new Pro Line Fusion avionics suite. The new Level D FS1000 simulator will be introduced at the FlightSafety Learning Center in Atlanta and is expected to enter service early next year. The […]

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association released its quarterly shipment report last week — a report that compares general aviation aircraft delivery numbers year over year. This latest report compares the first half of 2015 to the same time period in 2014, and the results will not make the aviation industry jump for joy. The total […]

While the U.S. population has been on a steady and strong increase for decades, the pilot population has slowly been declining as the large number of amazing aviators that came out of the World War II and the Vietnam War are aging. But with the emergence of new young pilot groups there is hope for […]

We all strive for landings that are silky smooth, where the wheels of the airplane appear to kiss the ground before they slowly roll to a stop. But in addition to making a soft touchdown a priority, you should have an area on the runway in mind as the touchdown zone. If you are not […]