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The Rovegno brothers are aiming to bring the heartbeat back to this nearly 80-year-old grass strip airport in North Carolina.

The purpose of the CAP flights was to gather photos and video of lava flows with regard to possible danger to downslope communities.

Volcanic ash clouds can foul aircraft engines, ruin aircraft exteriors and have hot, poisonous gasses that can be deadly for pilots.

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The flight test was not going well. I was doing fine, which was easy because I was the check airman giving it. The guy I was testing, though, was having more trouble than expected. A few maneuvers were marginal, but so far none called for a failure. So far. Next was an ILS approach. We […]

As we near the end of a year which, quite frankly, can’t over soon enough for me, it’s a good time to look back over our shoulder at what’s behind us—and what might be gaining—even as we try to focus on what’s ahead. In many quarters, 2022 was a good year. New and used aircraft […]

Pre-Departure Clearance or PDC is an FAA computer service that provides clearance information in text form to your tablet in the cockpit via Boeing ForeFlight or Garmin FltPlan. No copying the ATIS or clearance calls are required. Great, eh? Clearances issued via PDCs are official text clearances issued for U.S. IFR flight plans. A PDC […]

A recent “cyber incident” affected some Jeppesen products and services, such as the ability to update GPS navigation, flight planning, and instrument approach data.

NOTAM ignorance does not excuse you from being responsible for their contents.

The abstracts below derive from ASRS reports on Inflight Weather Encounters involving IFR. They illustrate a variety of real-world IFR weather problems and solutions. If Mother Nature throws you a curve, something you learn here might help someday. The Icicle Twin An ATC supervisor in Boston Center asked a controller/pilot to assist with an emergency […]