Stephen Pope

As any career-minded professional with young children can attest, striking a balance between work and family life can be a challenge. For pilot and professional aviation photographer Jessica Ambats, assignments can take her anywhere in the world on short notice, not always easy to pull off with a daughter at home. In this inspiring video, […]

Just a year after certifying the diesel-powered Cessna Skyhawk JT-A, Textron Aviation has quietly discontinued production of the model, originally thought to be a strong contender for international flight schools operating in places where the cost or availability of avgas made it a seemingly logical choice. Textron Aviation offered no reason for the move, which […]

A new version of the Garmin Pilot app for iOS out just in time for the start of the spring and summer flying season adds several new features that pilots should appreciate. Garmin Pilot Version 9.3 adds weather enhancements, airspace alerting, traffic display and runway extended centerlines, among other enhanced features. A new flight profile […]

Seaplane pilots arriving in the United States can now use an app to clear U.S. Customs as part of a test program. Available at two locations in Minnesota, the Reporting Offsite Arrival-Mobile (ROAM) app lets pilots clear customs by video conference at Scott’s Seaplane Base on Crane Lake and at the Shagawa Lake Seaplane base […]

FAA reauthorization legislation that would fund programs through 2023 heads to the U.S. Senate after passage of the House bill, HR 4, late last month. Lawmakers say they hope they can begin debating the legislation in the Senate in the coming weeks and get a final bill to President Donald Trump’s desk before the August […]

Richard L. “Dick” Collins, a prolific aviation journalist whose career spanned 60 years, nearly half of it on the masthead of Flying magazine including more than a decade in the 1970s through the late 1980s as editor-in-chief, died on Sunday at his home in suburban Maryland. He was 84. Born on November 28, 1933, Collins […]

The FAA reauthorization bill now before Congress no longer includes a last-minute provision slipped into the legislation by Rep. Bill Shuster that would have required pilots for fractional giant NetJets to retire at age 65, the same age as airline pilots. Instead, NetJets pilots will be forced to retire at age 70, a compromise plan […]

The message from GA pilots to Congress on Tuesday was loud and clear: Leave ATC alone. Amid an outcry from general aviation groups, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) dropped an eleventh-hour effort to move oversight of air traffic control out of the FAA and into the Department of Transportation, a maneuver […]

Outgoing House Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster has inserted an eleventh-hour amendment into the FAA Reauthorization bill now before Congress that would place the U.S. air traffic control system under the jurisdiction of an airline-dominated board of directors within the Department of Transportation rather than the FAA. General aviation leaders are urgently warning that the […]

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster failed in his bid to privatize ATC, but pilots for fractional giant NetJets say the Pennsylvania lawmaker has another trick up his sleeve: mandatory age 65 retirement for certain Part 135 charter and Part 91K fractional pilots, written into the FAA reauthorization bill now before Congress. Pilots […]