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Turboprop owners have a variety of modification options available for boosting the performance and handling of their aircraft. Among the rarified King Air 350 crowd, Blackhawk Modification’s new XP67A Engine+ Upgrade is gaining traction in the bid for the modification-of-choice title, delivering jet-like speeds at turboprop costs without sacrificing King Air utility. The speed surely […]

CloudAhoy is used by pilots at all levels for post-flight debrief. CloudAhoy provides “Flight Debrief in the Age of Technology“. It is data-driven and incorporates artificial intelligence technology, advanced analysis, state of the art visualization, integration of video, and automatic scoring of flights (currently in beta). The ability to relive the flight, to quickly identify […]

Jesse McClintock is a young California pilot who was helping a friend list his American Champion Adventurer for sale online, only to be fed up with how difficult and outdated every online aircraft marketplace was. This frustration led to innovation when he decided to create his own online aircraft market, intended to making listing an […]

Airborne upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) is now recognized as the key to reducing loss of control – in flight (LOC-I) accidents, the No. 1 cause of aviation fatalities. Prevailance Aerospace Safety Academy in Chesapeake, Virginia, is one of the world’s leading centers for providing UPRT and other specialty instruction, and its clients include […]

Meet the crack pilots and UPRT specialists behind Prevailance Aerospace. Fleet operators, regulatory authorities and safety experts agree that upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) is critical to reducing loss of control — in flight (LOC-I) accidents, the leading cause of aviation fatalities today. Moreover, the benefits of airborne UPRT over simulator-based training are also […]

An expert pilot stalls and recovers from a spin. High-profile airline accidents in recent years — Air France Flight 447, Colgan Air Flight 3407 and Asiana Flight 214 among them — have renewed focus on loss of control — in flight (LOC-I), the leading cause of aviation fatalities. To counter these preventable accidents, regulatory authorities […]

In an era of constantly improving aviation safety, loss of control — in flight (LOC-I) continues to result in preventable tragedies, maintaining its position as the No. 1 cause of aviation fatalities. From 1994 to 2003, LOC-I accounted for 36 percent of accident fatalities in commercial jet aviation, and in the following 10-year period, from […]