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Unlike many vintage taildraggers, this Citabria is designed to handle aerobatics.

The word ‘rare’ is often applied to aircraft designs that are few in number—such as the Student Prince, an open-cockpit biplane briefly manufactured in Oregon.

Almost 10 years since Beechcraft and Cessna joined under the Textron Aviation umbrella, the two sides of town are beginning to blend.

Microsoft Flight Simulator and X-Plane offer opportunities to pregame a risky airport landing and departure.

I always enjoy the magazine. Thank you to all who provide and produce the content. In Tarrance Kramer’s “Towerless Tribulations” article in April, he discussed the benefit of pilots cancelling IFR before landing at a non-towered airport. I agree with this sentiment; however it is worth noting that there are commercial operators whose Operations Manuals […]

Before I was an air traffic controller, I dabbled with computer programming. Both fields involve complex problems that are often broken down to simple if/then statements: if condition A is true, you do X. If condition A is false, you do Y. Thousands of these tiny statements may be the bricks of a massive application […]

After deciding I wanted as much redundancy—immunity from any single failure—as possible, and designing the systems toward that goal (See “Belt, Suspenders, Rope” in September 2023.), it only remained to actually install and implement those systems. That required about three and a half months and cost about half what the plane had been worth. Where? […]

I flew out of Boeing Field in Seattle and was assigned the CBAIN departure with fixes: GNEXX, KURRT, and CBAIN. If you depart in the opposite direction you might get the NRVNA departure (just the one fix, “NRVNA”). It doesn’t get much more Seattle than that! Eric Berman Woodinville, Washington As a controller, I occasionally […]

Ride along on a Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 journey in a Mitsubishi A6M2.

This video details what you need to know about the FAA’s Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification proposed regulation.