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After the FAA last week appeared to brush off sharp criticism over a new medical policy directed at overweight pilots, Congress reacted by crafting a bill that would require the agency to allow public comments on the proposal and apply normal rulemaking procedures before adopting the change. The FAA wants pilots diagnosed with high body […]

When planning a flight, pilots are trained to prepare for contingencies; minor problems and emergencies will arise at some point throughout every one of our flying careers. We taxi slow enough in case we experience a brake failure. In a single-engine airplane we choose a route of flight from point A to B that will […]

Now that the world knows the story of the Boeing 747 Dreamlifter that landed at the wrong Wichita-area airport on Wednesday night, everybody is asking the same question: how could it have happened? That is, how could a professional crew of a large cargo airliner get it so wrong? The answer is, it’s all too […]

Back in 2010, MIT and GE announced the results of research that appeared to have tantalizing implications for greatly reducing the buildup of airframe ice. So called “super-hydrophobic” coatings were shown to cause water droplets to bead up rather than spread out, reducing ice buildup by as much as 70 percent. But after the first […]

A Boeing 747 Dreamlifter bound for McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas mistakenly landed at Jabara Airport near Wichita on Wednesday after a flight from New York’s JFK. If that error wasn’t bad enough, the massive cargo plane was stuck there and forced the airport to close until it could take off this afternoon. According […]

Once upon a time, I lusted after owning a jet. I played the lottery in the hopes of winning enough money to own and support one. One time, I even put a down payment on a Cessna Citation Mustang. This was before I checked my net worth or calculated any realistic hopes for my net […]

One of the universal attractions of flying is the personal freedom it gives us to get out and explore the world. Whether we’re headed to a favorite camping spot deep in the woods of Maine, want to bask on an island in the turquoise-blue waters of the Caribbean or are planning an adventure somewhere in […]

Sam Weigel| Life takes some pretty interesting turns now and then. Most of us have at least some idea of what we want and how to get there, but it’s not always where we end up, and the path is seldom straight. The choices we make, the people we meet, forces out of our control […]

Pilots for Christ International, or PCI, is a service organization dedicated in part to connecting volunteer pilots with people needing transportation for medical or other reasons. In February 2012, one of the members of the Wyoming chapter of the organization, a 47-year-old, 500-hour private pilot and owner of a 1961 Cessna 210, offered to fly […]

I bought a Cessna 340 several years ago for business and personal use. It was my first pressurized aircraft, so my insurance carrier was quick to point out that despite hundreds of hours of multiengine time, I needed not only a high-altitude endorsement but also formal schooling on the aircraft before it would cover me […]