Pilot Proficiency

We clarify a common confusion regarding the logging of nighttime landings.

An aviation meteorologist explains why troughs are important enough to depict on prog charts.

‘The Skew-T log (p) and Me’ aims to make flight planning more effective.

Interactive webinar topics include ForeFlight, flight sims, and passing the FAA written exam.

The United States. “What a country!” as comedian Yakov Smirnoff once said. It’s equipped with first-class observation systems, sophisticated forecast models, and a lively research community. It has what is undoubtedly the most extensive weather infrastructure of any country in the world, and this is in part due to North America’s notoriously temperamental weather. It’s […]

Spins are not as scary or dangerous as some pilots make them out to be.

Aviation’s version of the Ginger-versus-Mary-Ann debate, pilots have strong opinions about their undercarriage.

Pilot proficiency, passengers, new-airplane-to-you, and unfamiliar terrain, should all factor into your personal weather-related flying restrictions

Knowledgeable groups known as type clubs can provide a plethora of information about specific types of aircraft.

More Redbirds and scenarios await visitors year-round at Oshkosh.