Aviation Safety

Making right turns to join left-hand traffic patterns is not a FAR violation because ‘vicinity’ is not defined.

It took his instructor and another airplane for this student pilot to learn about proper approach speeds.

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.

Finding and learning the lessons from others’ mistakes is all part of our continuing education as pilots.

In the December 2023 issue, the figure on page 5 is not a Koch chart, but rather a chart for computing pressure altitude. A Koch chart normally has a pressure altitude scale on the right and temperature on the left. In the center are scales for correcting takeoff distance and climb rate relative to sea […]

Right at the end of 2023, the U.S. airline industry decided it was time to revive one of its age-old shibboleths: that private aircraft are the source of air-travel delays. In a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker, industry organization Airlines4America (A4A) wrote to call their attention to operational challenges […]

There’s no good time to have an engine failure, but some are better than others. After taking off is never one of them.

Industry sales of new general aviation aircraft are up over last year and the accident rates are down.

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