Stephen Pope

In a move that could put some pilot logbook app makers out of business, ForeFlight has added its own integration into its popular flight planning app, allowing users to automatically log flights, track hours, review currency and receive electronic flight instructor endorsements. The new feature includes a web-based import tool that lets you pull in […]

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The most accurate reproduction of Charles Lindbergh’s famed Spirit of St. Louis ever built made its first test flight on Saturday when Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum pilot and aircraft restorer/builder Ken Cassens took the replica Ryan NYP into the bright blue skies over upstate New York. “It was uneventful, which is a good thing, and I […]

Daher delivered the 100th TBM 900 20 months after the latest version of the hugely successful single-engine turboprop model entered service. The TBM 900 is an upgraded version of the TBM 850, which itself is a refresh of the first-generation TBM 700. Daher developed the $3.8 million TBM 900 over three years at its base […]

Supporters of Santa Monica Municipal Airport in southern California won a substantial victory this month after the FAA ruled the airport remains under federal grant obligations until Aug. 27, 2023, contradicting the city of Santa Monica’s assertion that its grant obligations expired last year. The FAA ruling issued on December 4 means the airport must […]

Transport Canada has grounded Buffalo Airways, the Northwest Territories airline made famous for the past six seasons on TV’s “Ice Pilot NWT.” In a press release, the regulator said it is suspending Buffalo Airways operating certificate because of its “poor safety record.” The suspension took effect Monday at 11:59 p.m. “The department will not allow […]

A case can be made that the twin-diesel DA62 from Austria’s Diamond Aircraft represents a new pinnacle in piston aircraft design. Its long list of positive attributes includes superb efficiency, quality construction, technological sophistication and aesthetic appeal from every angle. With so much going for it, there’s little question this is an airplane that belongs […]

Builders of a Ryan NYP replica that has just been completed at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in upstate New York tell us the homage to the Spirit of St. Louis is probably more true to the original at the time of Charles Lindbergh’s solo Atlantic crossing in 1927 than real airplane hanging today in the […]

So let me guess. You still haven’t equipped your airplane for ADS-B. With the calendar about to flip from 2015 to 2016 – and with the FAA mandate still stubbornly set for Jan. 1, 2020 – you’re starting to feel a little squeamish. You know you should install mandate-compliant ADS-B gear (including a WAAS GPS […]

Bad Elf, a maker of portable GPS receivers for the aviation market, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for the introduction of an ADS-B receiver that will sell for just $299 — but only if the startup’s $500,000 funding goal is met by the time the campaign ends in mid January. Capable of receiving ADS-B traffic […]