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The more complex the airplane, the more we train.

The Carbon Cub UL is the first airplane to be powered by the Rotax 916iS engine.

It’s not exactly a bad time of year to fly from Texas to New Mexico, but spring can bring fluctuating ceilings and local winds that like to be unpredictable. But at least it’s before the real heat kicks in. Still, this’ll be a more challenging flight plan in which a weather briefing and charts won’t […]

The dogfight involved two small, unmanned, fixed-wing aircraft—one operated by AI, and the other controlled by a human from the ground.

Everyone talks about the weather but no one ever does anything about it.” (Stop me if you’ve heard that before.) The same could be said about managing the risk of general aviation. We—both this magazine and the industry as a whole—spend a lot of time preaching to pilots about the mechanics of understanding weather forecasts, […]

More Ways Up I have to disagree with Douglas Boyd’s statement in his November article, “Which Way Is Up?” that you have to choose between track up and north up. Ever since I got ForeFlight, I had my 530 on track up and my kneeboard iPad on north up. I consulted whichever one could answer […]

Pilots help furry friends while building flight experience.

Roper 35, traffic in your twelve o’clock, three miles, type and altitude unknown.” This ATC call got our immediate attention. We were blitzing along in a U.S. Air Force T-38 at 300 knots and about 3000 feet msl, southbound over the Sacramento Valley. The controller might just as well have said, “I hope you’re looking […]

A young aviator embarks on a mission to inspire underserved communities to embrace STEM careers.

FLYING tests the Garmin D2 Mach 1 and Abingdon tactical watches.