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While we write this annual feature to be amusing, the intent is also to get you to consider your own actions, lest you be featured on these pages.

Recovering from a heart attack can take time and needs to be well documented to assure the FAA that the significant risk to flight has passed. With that properly done, and with a full recovery, there is no reason you can’t return to flying either professionally or for fun.

The single-engine piston, diesel-powered Diamond DA50RG with a Continental CD-300 engine sets the bar for the category. We put one of the first ones to the test in Austria.

There’s something special about about flying your airplane into an airshow or aviation festival. You truly feel accomplished when you fly the published approach, rock your wings on command, stick the landing on the dot specified, and then are greeted by the people on scooters who direct you where to park at the Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo.

Our first feel-good article on ATC saves (July 2023) was well received. Here are some more stories where a controller helped save a pilot’s butt.

Stemme’s S12 exhibits decades of improvement since the company rolled out its first motorgliders.

Former NASA astronaut Ken Mattingly II, best known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 return to Earth safely in 1970, has died at 87.

Mood Music for Sim Challenge I always enjoy your Sim Challenges and often punish my students by loading them up in our sim. I particularly like the trip around Hawaii in August’s “Island Hoping [SIC].” In fact, to set the mood for this challenge with my students, I had some Hawaiian music playing in the […]

Have you flown into AirVenture? You’ve heard stories about the stressful mixed density of traffic across all performance levels with pilots of widely varying skills. In this first of two articles I’ll explore what it takes to control all that traffic in 10 days. The ATC planning for AirVenture is extensive and nearly never stops. […]

Garmin has updated its D2 watch series with the Mach 1 Pro. The new multifunction tool includes an LED flashlight, night modes, and an ECG app.