Search Results for: Cessna 172

Planning is critical to a safe and successful cross country flight. Learn how to plan a cross country flight by following a simple, detailed checklist.

FLYING does the math for you to provide some answers to the question.

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

How often should you fly?

The U.S. Air Force’s volunteer auxiliary is set to outfit 36 new aircraft with SiriusXM aviation weather and information services.

You can take your stock airplane into a lot of out-of-the-way places depending on what that mount may be. Take a Cessna 172, for example. With a modest 180-hp Lycoming O-360 engine up front and lightly loaded, you can land a Skyhawk in an amazing array of places. However, you’ll be able to go into […]

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June 1, 2022, River Falls, Wis. Grumman AA-1B Trainer/TR-2 At about 1215 Central time, the airplane was substantially damaged in an off-airport landing shortly after takeoff following engine failure. The student pilot received minor injuries and the flight instructor received serious injuries. Visual conditions prevailed. The student pilot reported that, as the airplane was about […]

Somewhere, as you read this, an advanced pilot candidate is decrying the need to master the so-called commercial maneuvers. “You’ll never hear ATC call and say, ‘Give me a Lazy 8 for spacing,’” they might say. And they’d probably be right. The thing is, many of the maneuvers we must master to pass a practical […]

The little airpark that could…and did.