Pilot Proficiency

The climb to commercial ensures you are proficient, knowledgeable, and thorough in your flying.

The AFD is a vehicle for the forecaster to document technical reasoning behind the forecast they just issued.

A Cessna 150 helps a pilot get his certificate – and then heads for STOL drag.

Shortly after takeoff, the instructor’s head rolled back. The pilot thought the instructor was pretending to take a nap as a joke.

You do not lose your certificate or go to prison for an accidental midair with a bald eagle—or any other bird.

While we train for the essential ability to fly approaches to minimums, that’s not always enough preparation for real-life weather, which can conjure up things that don’t fit neatly into the ceiling/visibility numbers on the charts. Sometimes it’s not clear: Am I at those minimums? Do I have the visual minimums to cancel? Should I […]

With lots of affordable rural land, an abundance of Class E airspace, and plenty of VMC weather, it goes without saying that a thriving aviation community exists in the southern United States. Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana are home to almost 87,000 pilots and countless airshows and fly-ins, and the region is of course headquarters […]

Keep the momentum going with these tips to continue your flight training.

Pilots help furry friends while building flight experience.

The goal of the coded form was to allow forecasters and observers to key in data quickly.