Aviation Safety

This pilot lost voice communication with ATC, IFR, while entering Class C airspace, highlighting the value of writing things down.

Getting and staying ahead of even the fastest airplane is simply a matter of planning, practice and, well, aggression. 

There may come a day when GPS is not available, either regionally or worldwide. The fallback is a minimal VOR/ILS network.

They can be a worst-case scenario but also create ambiguity, which may delay your reaction and introduce new threats.

Your private certificate is truly a license to learn. The good news is the opportunities to gain experience are endless. 

Thanks for following up on the traffic pattern entry debate spurred by the FAA’s guidance in its Airplane Flying Handbook (“Traffic Pattern Entries,” February 2024). Special thanks to Jerrold Seckler for following up with the FAA and nailing down their position. It seems to me that the FAA’s recommended procedure is the best answer to […]

It was the latest event in Boeing’s 737 Max saga, which includes two destroyed aircraft and 346 fatalities, plus lengthy worldwide groundings.

Departing airports in mountainous areas can mean maximizing your rate of climb into the teens. Know before you go.

Flight in known icing is one of the challenges of flying equipped aircraft. The systems and their limitations is another.

It turns out we don’t even have to be airborne before CO can enter the cabin and start compromising our abilities.