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Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS B) is required equipment on most aircraft in controlled airspace. You have lots of options.

Getting a Lear to Flight Level 510 before running out of jet-A was a challenge. Nonetheless, I was learning about the benefits (and perils) of high-altitude flight.

Going up against the clock meant planning was crucial.

Airplanes, dirt bikes, and snowboards help keep his life moving, just how he likes it.

Editor’s note: For our July 2021 Accident Probe, Oshkosh Or Bust, we explored an accident involving a non-instrument-rated pilot who took off into dark night IMC and crashed into an open field near the airport, killing himself and his passenger. This month’s accident is eerily similar, except both occupants were instrument-rated commercial pilots. The underlying […]

When I was in the Air Force, my colleagues would tell the story of how some fighter pilots used to do touch-and-goes on a tall, flat mesa that stuck up somewhere in the southwest desert, perhaps in Nevada or Arizona. It was dubbed “Touch-And-Go Mesa.” (Imaginative, huh?) One pilot supposedly did the thing, and then […]

ForeFlight has introduced the latest update to its Sentry series of portable ADS-B units, the Sentry Plus, joining the original Sentry and Sentry Mini for use on a wide range of aircraft when linked to an iPad. The lightweight plastic-case Sentry Plus builds on previous models, allowing for subscription-free ADS-B traffic and weather information, and […]

Sectional charts – the most commonly used charts by pilots today – provide a wide range of valuable and necessary information for all types of pilots as well as UAS operators. These navigational aids have been around since 1930 – but don’t think of using anything other than a current chart to navigate. In the […]

Here are five exceptional aviation programs available to students in the Peach State.

It was a December afternoon at Spirit of St. Louis airport (SUS), about 1400 local time. Sunny, with scattered clouds, cool. The weather forecast had the word “snow” in it, starting about 1800, which would be after dark, but right now it was sunny. Snow? Seemed like a long way off. Turns out it wasn’t. […]