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While conducting flight reviews for two decades, I’ve noted a subset of informed pilots employing up-to-date concepts to properly manage the air/fuel mixture entering their piston engine. Other pilots—probably because they were initially trained that way—leaned to peak exhaust gas temperature (EGT), no matter the engine power setting, and then enrichened it by 50 degrees […]

I did my primary flight training at a slow, towered airport, where our flight school consisted of about 70% of the traffic taking off and landing. There was a commuter operation with three or four flights a day, and occasional private jet and corporate traffic. The controllers were fantastic about slowing down calls for student pilots, […]

 I saw it again on social media: someone posted that he/she is scheduled for a flight review and asked, “What should I study to prepare?” Generally well-meaning responses run the gamut from recommendations for classes or online courses, to a list of the available FAA manuals and advisory circulars (ACs), to statements like, “You can’t […]

Several popular homebuilt aircraft designs are marking anniversaries of their own at Oshkosh this year.

Government agencies are developing a prototype testing and evaluation corridor for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and advanced air mobility (AAM) technologies.

The slump comes as charter operators face a ‘challenging environment,’ the data tracking company said.

A roundup of what’s new in the world of general aviation engines.

The alterations would make it easier for instructors to maintain proficiency and keep their certificates in line with other airman certificates that do not expire.

Hindenburg meets Hiroshima, what could possibly go wrong?

Ride along on a Microsoft Flight Simulator journey through history in a Beechcraft Model 17.