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EAA Spirit of Aviation Week Features Virtual Exhibits

The Experimental Aircraft Association’s Spirit of Aviation Week features virtual exhibitors, with experts at Garmin, Sporty’s ForeFlight, and Jeppesen presenting webinars, among others. You can check out EAA’s full lineup here, but there are a few highlights from exhibitors you may want to mark on your calendar. Garmin has a robust lineup of webinars on […]

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Training and Proficiency

Training Providers Help Build Your Aviation Skills At Home

With the Coronavirus outbreak causing the drawing down of in-person flight training in some areas of the country this spring, you can look to providers like Sporty’s Pilot Shop, Redbird Flight Simulations, Aviation Supplies & Academics, King Schools, and others to help keep you focus on your aviation goals. Sporty’s has launched its latest addition […]

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Pilot Proficiency

Unusual Attitudes: Head in the Clouds

After reading, rereading and ruminating over an article on the direction of relative wind as affected by slips and skids, I still wasn’t getting it. Because I don’t have Peter Garrison’s number, I called another friend who has written extensively about all things aeronautical, and as expected, he patiently dumbed it down to where even […]

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Training and Proficiency

Young Eagles Gives More Than 2.2 Million Rides

Ever wondered how to convince a young person of the thrill, the fun, and the unbelievable personal and professional exhilaration they might experience should they aim their sights on a career in aviation? In a world often overrun with handheld technology spewing endless streams of social media content that doesn’t seem to fully answer that […]

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Training and Proficiency

ATP Requirements for Your Certificate

The path to becoming a professional pilot has evolved a lot in the past eight years, following the implementation of new regulations and testing guidance governing how pilots of transport-category aircraft obtain certification. While it’s possible to fly professionally with a certificate for commercial single-engine operations, most pilots intending to fly for the airlines, commuter […]

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Training and Proficiency

How Not to Learn to Fly

I learned to fly about 25 years ago, and it’s no exaggeration to say it changed my life. I started flight training as a fairly immature teenager and ended it as a confident and independent young adult. I learned a lot about engines and weather, but much more important were the lessons on self-reliance, problem-solving […]

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WAI Announces Pat Luebke Memorial Scholarship

Women in Aviation International announced last week the formation of the Pat Luebke Memorial Scholarship for 2020, following the death of longtime WAI member and former Flying colleague Patricia Luebke on November 22, 2019, after a brief illness. Luebke, born October 9, 1950, worked as a schoolteacher after college, but quickly transitioned to the aviation […]

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Gear

What to Look For in a Flight Computer

As glass panels and EFBs become more widely used today, the calculations made by your grandfather on the famed E-6B analog flight computer are now handled with small, handheld electronic flight computers, or even displayed right on your glass panel. Today’s electronic flight computers are loaded with functionality, but there is still a case to […]

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Gear

So You’ve Started Flight Training: Flight Tools

Part of preparing for your flight training means making sure you have the right tools with you—whether your day’s learning session involves time in the sim, ground lessons, or a flight. Here, we assemble a representative kit that will outfit you for training, with a selection of ideas from products we’ve tested over the long […]

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Avionics and Gear

So You’ve Started Flight Training: Flight Apps

Learning styles determine what programs work best for you in training—and your instructor can help guide you to the training aids that will correspond to your syllabus and course outline. We’ve found that over the years, the following companies have provided quality aviation training and now deliver that quality in mobile formats—so you can study […]

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