AOPA

We’ve all been there. You land at an unfamiliar airport and—after squinting at the airport diagram on paper, panel, or iPad—you try to sort out the best place to park. At times, you’ll get lucky and an intrepid FBO golf cart will zoom out to fetch you and guide you in—but then the question arises, […]

A touch of inspiration keeps us going when difficult times surround us—so the advent of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association annual awards presented on February 3 via livestream felt like the push forward we all need. The General Aviation Awards honor select people in the industry who have made major contributions over the course […]

AOPA offers several options for prospective pilots to fund their flight training through its You Can Fly scholarship and incentive program. As of December 1, the next round of scholarships has become available, and AOPA members are encouraged to apply. The AOPA High School Flight Training Scholarship, funded by the Ray Foundation, offers a total […]

The very fluid situation surrounding emergency-use authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech has moved fast in the last few days, and initially, pilots, unions, and aviation associations were in a holding pattern awaiting guidance from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The question to be answered was whether pilots—especially those who make their living flying […]

The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) and Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) recently conducted a survey to generate input from their member pilots in response to an FAA notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) introducing a new electronic Pilot Records Database (PRD) that would involve certain Part 91 operators. Based on the comments received, the […]

The AOPA’s Air Safety Institute last week published the 30th Nall Report, an annual look at safety statistics surrounding GA flying. The latest report looks at 2018 safety data gathered from both the NTSB and the FAA. The report began, “Although 2018 saw an increase in total accidents, the good news is that the overall […]

Have you kept up your flying during the past few months, staying focused on achieving that first pilot certificate or a new rating? A lot of pilots have turned challenges into success—but some have struggled as well, and the support they’ve had from peers and mentors can make the difference in getting back on track […]

AOPA’s You Can Fly program—recent winner of the National Aeronautic Association’s Frank G. Brewer Trophy for its work to foster general aviation development—has focused much of its resources on targeting STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) coursework at the high school level. To this end, it has executed its fifth annual High School Aviation STEM […]

The Flight Training Award winners for 2019 from AOPA’s You Can Fly program have been announced at the ninth annual Redbird Migration flight training conference hosted at Denver Centennial’s Wings Over the Rockies Exploration of Flight academy. Those honored were selected via the Flight Training Survey conducted by AOPA that went out earlier this summer. […]

Similar to its predecessors, the 28th Nall report released by the AOPA last week analyzes general aviation accidents in United States national airspace and on flights departing from or returning to the U.S. or its territories or possessions. The Joseph T. Nall Report, named for a former NTSB Board member, focuses on airplanes that weigh […]