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In our FBO Spotlight series, we’re highlighting FBOs around the country that have received rave reviews from our readers. This latest Spotlight is brought to you by Kenneth Sweet, who recently flew into Oakland County International Airport in a Piper Cherokee. Here’s what he has to say about one of the airport’s FBO, Michigan Aviation: […]

Have you ever had a craving for pie? Not just any pie, but made from scratch, crispy yet flaky, buttery, still warm from the oven pie. After doing research and speaking to fellow aviators, the consensus is “the” best pie in the Pacific Northwest tri-state area (Oregon, Washington & Idaho) is at Andrea Raymor and […]

Preparing for the commercial written exam, or simply want to retest what you learned in ground school back in the day? Try out these sample questions, crafted to mimic what you might see on the FAA test, and put your knowledge to the test. Launch the quiz here.

Matevž Lenarčič emerged smiling as he exited the Pipistrel Virus SW 914 Turbo last week after completing the GreenLight WorldFlight journey, which started and ended at the Jože Pučnik airport in Brnik outside Ljubljana, Slovenia. The flight, which began on January 8, was not an attempt to circumvent the globe in record time, but rather […]

Chicago’s O’Hare International (KORD) is best known as the second busiest airport in the United States and one of United Airlines largest hubs. It’s not exactly recognized for being the friendliest GA airport around. So what’s a hungry aviator to do when flying around the metropolitan Chicago area? The answer is to fly eight miles […]

In our FBO Spotlight series, we’re highlighting FBOs around the country that have received rave reviews from our readers. This latest Spotlight is brought to you by William Dando, who recently stopped by Byerly Aviation after flying into Peoria International Airport in Illinois in a PA-30 Twin Comanche. Here’s what he has to say about […]

Where can you see Virgil “Gus” Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 Mercury spacecraft, touch a Redstone Nuclear Warhead and fill up on a charcoal grilled Cowboy cut bone-in rib eye steak? The answer is Hutchinson, Kansas. The “Salt City” and Wichita’s little brother is home of the Hutchinson Municipal Airport, the Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Museum, […]

(March 2012) Weighing five pounds fewer than I had three days before we began training in the steamy heat of south Florida, I finally breathed a huge sigh of relief. Bill Conrad had just told me I’d passed the type rating and multi-ATP check ride in the Lockheed 18 Lodestar. As we took the runway […]

It was supposed to have been a fun December evening spent viewing the twinkling Christmas lights around Dallas from the lofty vantage point of an Aviat Husky. Instead, joy turned to tragedy moments after the flight ended, when the Husky’s passenger, a 23-year-old fashion model named Lauren Scruggs, climbed out of the airplane onto the […]

(March 2012) I debated putting words on paper regarding the recent Chapter 11 filing by my airline. Bankruptcy has become so vogue that the flying public now yawns at the notion, knowing that very little will change from their perspective. Frequent flyer miles remain intact. Steerage class food remains inedible. Baggage mishandling remains an everyday […]