A few years back, when innovative tablets like the iPad and Google’s open-source Android devices were first overturning long-held ideas about the direction of personal computing, we told you about eight must-try aviation apps. You loved them all, and even suggested a few more that we might check out. Since then a lot has changed […]
We tend to think of a sudden feeling of unease or apprehension as a bad thing, a foreboding sign that something is amiss. But as pilots, not only should we heed these uneasy feelings, we should consciously decide to welcome them as a way of eliminating risk and breaking potential links in the accident chain. […]
You may have heard the news this week that a New Jersey judge tossed out a lawsuit brought by the town of Readington, which for more than a decade has tried to wrest control of Solberg Airport from the family that has owned it since 1941. But what you might have missed is what the […]
Avidyne says it is developing revised software to address an Emergency Airworthiness Directive issued by the FAA this week warning pilots of incorrect course indications on some GPS approaches when flying with certain Avidyne avionics. The AD, which is effective upon receipt, requires owners and operators to incorporate an operational limitation in airplane flight manual […]
Douglas Hughes, the gyrocopter pilot who intentionally violated Washington, D.C.’s restricted airspace last month and landed on the lawn in front of the Capitol building, is facing a lengthy prison sentence after being indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday. The most serious charges Hughes faces are for flying without a proper pilot certificate and […]
You might not even have noticed, but the Cessna 182 has been out of production for the better part of the last three years. Would-be buyers of new Skylanes are painfully aware of this fact, and now they’re finally getting their wish. Cessna is putting the gasoline piston version of the Skylane back into production […]
What’s cooler than a high-def video of the Jetman blasting across the sky beneath his jet-powered carbon-fiber wing? A video of two Jetmen flying formation aerobatics over Dubai, of course. Yves “Jetman” Rossy has made a name for himself by flying all over the world with nothing but his jet wing attached to his body. […]
When it comes to properly controlling airspeed and altitude there are a couple of schools of thought depending on which group of pilots you happen to be talking with. One subscribes to the idea that power management is all that’s really needed to control airspeed and altitude assuming the airplane is properly trimmed. The other […]
Video from a news helicopter captured the scene as the crew of a United Express jet was forced to make an emergency landing on Monday morning at Los Angeles International Airport after experiencing a landing gear problem. United Express Flight 5316, a Bombardier CRJ-200 operated by SkyWest Airlines, departed Monterey, California, at about 6:50 a.m. […]
Airbus is signaling its strong commitment to its flagship military transport plane after the crash of a new A400M in Spain on Sunday that killed four and injured two on a test flight. The brand new four-engine turboprop had just departed on its first shakedown flight after rolling out of the Airbus factory in Seville. […]
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