Careers

We call it flying in a black hole — no stars or ground lighting to guide you. You are flying a TP-3, a heavy, lumbering beast of an airplane, and you are just 350 feet above the ground, accelerating toward 150 knots. The cockpit glows an eerie Halloween green. Your captain indicates it’s time, and […]

If you fly with an iPad, there is a good chance you do it with ForeFlight leading the way. It’s hard to find an app in any industry that dominates the way ForeFlight Mobile does because it just works. It has to because flying is serious business, and a lame product would have been laughed […]

During his 14-year career with Garmin International, software engineer Joe Gepner has had a hand in developing cutting-edge technology in glass panel avionics.

Marie Fredieu, the first female helicopter pilot with the Florida Forest Service, protects wildlife and helps control wildfires.

After being a flight instructor for 10 years, pilot Bo Gilham expanded his horizons to do something different and began working at the Florida Forest Service.

Allan Schrader found that having mentors along the way helped him shape his career into what it is today as president and CEO of Lightspeed Aviation.

With education costs and career uncertainties being the two major concerns of many aspiring professional pilots, a new partnership between regional airlines, flight schools and university aviation programs addresses both issues in tandem, providing tuition assistance that comes with a guaranteed first officer job. “We’ve never had anything like this program in the industry,” says […]

It’s a crisp December morning in Las Vegas, and hundreds of the world’s top aerobatic pilots gather. None of them are flying, despite clear weather. Instead they pack the Rio Hotel and Casino’s Brasilia ballroom to listen to a motivational speaker. “Live lives of adventure and purpose,” the speaker encourages them. “Stretch yourself beyond your […]

Here are the facts: Pilots rely on meteorologists, the people who observe, report and forecast the weather. That’s what the aviation meteorologists who staff the National Weather Service (NWS), The Weather Company, NOAA and, yes, even NASA are in the business of providing you. Where do they get the skills and information that make predicting […]

Are you searching for a career in aviation that better suits you and your family’s lifestyle? Do you enjoy teaching? How about working with sophisticated computers and some of the top pilots from all over the world? If these questions intrigue you, then you may want to know more about the rapidly expanding realm of […]