by Isabel Goyer

This week’s eruption of an Icelandic volcano seems to be a repeat of much of last year’s drama when a larger eruption shut down much of Europe’s airspace for nearly a week, costing billions of Euros in the process. ** ** This time around, the authorities were well prepared, though how much good that preparation […]

Investigators have successfully recovered all the data from the two recorders that went down with Air France Flight 447 two years ago. The recorders were found last month and recovered last week from the wreckage of the Airbus A330 that crashed on a late night flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris when it flew […]

A judge in a Brazilian court has sentenced the American pilots of an Embraer Legacy bizjet, Joseph Lepore and Jan Paul Paladino, to more than four years behind bars for their role in the 2006 crash of a Gol 737 that killed all 154 aboard the airliner when it crashed in the jungles of Brazil. […]

1. Fly with Discipline Do things right and do them the same way. Use checklists. Develop habits. Brief the approach. Focus during high workload phases, and observe a sterile cockpit, even when solo, on departure and arrival. 2. Make Things Easy Complex procedures, dicey weather, unfamiliar airplanes and new places all add to workload and […]

For pilots making their way through the world of ratings independently, as opposed to through a highly structured training program, the instrument ticket generates more anxiety per flight hour than all the other ratings combined. It should come as no surprise that it does. To go from the world of VFR flight (which is how […]

__Flight level 280 in a TBM 850 was just perfect for us coming out of Peachtree in Georgia, headed down to cozy North Perry Airport near Fort Lauderdale in south Florida. On a really long trip we could have climbed up to FL 310, lost a few knots, saved a few gallons per hour and […]

British airplane restorer Kevin Crumplin recently put the finishing touches on not one but three de Havilland Tiger Moths that look better than the day they came off their respective factory floors, one from Morris Motors and two from de Havilland, between 1936 and 1943. There were more than 7,000 Tiger Moths produced in England […]

Boeing recently made the first flight of its Phantom Ray, a remotely piloted aerial vehicle — Boeing uses the term “unmanned airborne system” (UAS) — from Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert of Southern California. The airplane looks for all the world like a half-scale radio-control early prototype of the Stealth Fighter, which […]

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) came out with its First Quarter stats on Tuesday, and to the surprise of no one familiar with industry activity, they were further proof of a slow economic recovery process. Overall, total billings were down $3.7 billion compared to the first quarter of last year, a nearly 20 percent […]

Cessna, which made its name in the turbofan business with simple and strong light jets, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first flight of the Cessna 525 CitationJet, the company’s groundbreaking single-pilot jet that first took flight in late April of 1991. That airplane, equipped with an all-new laminar flow wing and powered by […]