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Garmin said yesterday its GFC 500 autopilot received the FAA’s supplemental type certification for a number of less complex single-engine aircraft like the Cessna 172 and 182. When linked with Garmin’s G5 primary attitude indicator, that provides input and display of altitude preselect, heading, vertical speed target, airspeed target, as well as flight director command […]

The U.S. Coast Guard this morning reported it had not yet located a debris field for a Cirrus SR22T that was last tracked Wednesday night heading south into the Gulf of Mexico. The Cirrus was on an IFR flight plan from Oklahoma City’s Wiley Post Airport on Wednesday to Georgetown Texas just outside Austin when […]

Private and recreational pilots can now access the new online Mayo Clinic BasicMed Course, a free education program for pilots pursuing medical qualification through FAA BasicMed that is an alternative to completing the course on AOPA’s website. “We’re pleased to be able to provide this new option for pilots,” said Clayton Cowl, director of the […]

While Rep. Bill Shuster’s (R-Pa) announcement that he’ll leave the House at the end of 2018 might signal a potential win for opponents of his controversial plan to separate air traffic control from the FAA, Mr. Shuster’s remark, “We have much still to do,” should serve as a reminder that the effort to create a […]

According to a pair of industry reports, 2017 was the safest year in the history of commercial aviation. That’s a remarkable feat considering commercial air transportation traffic was up 3 percent from 2016, and as such, according to aviation consultants To70, the fatal accident rate dropped to just one fatal accident for every 16 million […]

Ground collisions have thankfully been few and far between over the past few years. However, the FAA is taking no chances and continues to raise awareness of the risk of runway incursions between aircraft and vehicles operating on airports of all sizes. The agency said the majority of incursions occur in the first two-thirds of […]

Another year has passed, and, by all measures, 2017 provided a lot of terrific aviation news as seen in our Top 25 Aviation Stories of 2017. But there is a lot of exciting development going on this year, too. Here are some new airplanes that we are looking forward to hearing more about. Bend, Oregon-based […]

GE Aviation completed the first test run of its new Advanced Turboprop engine, a clean-sheet design that will power Cessna’s forthcoming Denali business turboprop and go head to head with Pratt & Whitney’s venerable PT6A engine family. GE says the Advanced Turboprop incorporates more 3-D-printed components than any production engine in aviation history, comprising 35 […]

Too often, GA accidents appear as just one more sentence or two in the media, often accompanied by a single ugly photo, a problem that dilutes the human cost of these tragedies as well as the efforts to improve pilot awareness of the risks of growing too comfortable in the cockpit of an aircraft. Here […]

As we do at the end of each year, the editors of Flying have compiled a list of the most important, compelling and industry-shaping news stories to emerge in the preceding 12 months. As always, the year was jam-packed with major news stories, from the political battles that gripped Washington to new airplane introductions and […]