AOPA

Take Flight Aviation, a flight-training provider based in Montgomery, New York, that operates a fleet of Diamond Aircraft piston singles and twins, has been named by AOPA as Best Flight School in the Nation for 2018. Take Flight Aviation was honored for providing a high level of service to its customers based on responses to […]

Signature Flight Support has published most of its fees for piston airplanes on its website, according to AOPA. Signature, much like other chains of fixed-based operations, has been reluctant to post fees due to competitive concerns preferring pilots call each facility directly for information. “This is a step in the right direction,” said AOPA President […]

An increase in the weight limit for LSAs from 1,320 pounds to more than 3,000 could be coming before the end of 2019 or in 2020 according to news published by both the EAA and AOPA. Should that weight limit become a permanent part of the LSA guidelines along with a number of expanded pilot […]

In an effort to bring pilots who have been away from flying for an extended period back into the cockpit, AOPA has offered courses, aptly named Rusty Pilots, at various locations to bring those pilots back up to speed on the intricacies of flying. More than 23,600 pilots have attended more than 700 of these […]

There’s truly good news for the GA community in this year’s Nall Report and analysis of general aviation accidents; GA pilots are flying more hours and having fewer accidents. The editors of the Joseph T. Nall Report view their goal in gathering and reviewing accident data pretty much the same way they have since the […]

There’s never been a better time for career switchers to land a job in aviation than right now. Nobody knows that better perhaps than Mark Baker, the president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. That’s because Baker is a career switcher himself, having left the retail world to pursue his passion as the head […]

The text of yesterday’s news release from Women in Aviation was brief, but to the point. “Upon further review and additional information, Women in Aviation International has withdrawn its support of the AOPA initiative relative to FBO fees for general aviation.” WAI President Dr. Peggy Chabrian said, “As a pilot myself, I am sympathetic to […]

The AOPA’s Air Safety Institute (ASI) has launched its long-awaited Focused Flight Review designed to offer pilots a more individualized opportunity to sharpen their skills, proficiency and knowledge through the use of carefully designed flight scenarios. The association acknowledges that flying with an instructor every two years is sometimes the only opportunity some pilots take […]

The FAA recently ruled in favor of Key West International Airport after conducting a review of the field’s only FBO in response to a complaint filed last year by AOPA about pricing practices and ramp access at KEYW. AOPA’s Part 13 complaint claimed that the Signature Flight Support FBO was violating Key West International Airport’s […]

The FAA’s Southern Region has rejected the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association’s claim that “egregious” FBO pricing at Asheville Regional Airport in North Carolina violates federal airport grant assurances, calling the Part 13 complaint the association filed last summer “unpersuasive.” The FAA Southern Region Airports Division wrote in a June 7 letter to AOPA general […]