Aviation Safety

Many Class B or C airport have special VFR routes charted to help us get around or through them. Sometimes, IFR is easier.

Getting there and back can mean abandoning Plan A for a new strategy. Situational awareness is key.

We all want to sound cool on the radio, but shortcuts and word omissions can breed rampant confusion. 

Air Show Arrivals I have enjoyed your magazine for many years. Your airshow arrival article (April 2024) reminded me of a 2015 experience I had in Salinas, Calif., when I attended an AOPA fly-in there. I flew in IFR, because I had recently obtained the rating. The coastal stratus at 1000 feet was still burning […]

As I relate in greater detail in the article beginning on page 7, I flew my Beech Debonair and some friends up to Houlton, Maine, and back in early April to view what the FAA termed the “Great North American Eclipse.” On the four-day roundtrip, the airplane racked up more than 20 tach hours and […]

An easy way to avoid the risk of ditching is to not fly over water. The rest of us should plan ahead.

A monthly summary of recently published NTSB preliminary accident reports involving general aviation and air carrier aircraft.

The following is derived from maintenance facility submissions to the FAA’s Service Difficulty Reports database.

As summer heats up, the NTSB warns of unexpected turbulence in hot weather. Plus, new videos from Hartzell Aviation and the FAA publishes a final rule on practical tests.

Low-power/compression avgas engines must be leaned properly to prevent combustion byproduct buildups.