Aviation News

ForeFlight has added subscription plans to accommodate pilots of high-performance piston aircraft, turboprops and jets. The Performance Plus and Business Performance Plus subscription plans provide flight planning tools that quickly compute several route options with time, fuel, route and altitude data based on performance, payload and current weather conditions. Powered by ForeFlight’s AviationCloud technology, the […]

PAL-V, the Dutch company that plans to bring to market the world’s first production flying car, has christened its factory for the PAL-V Liberty in the Netherlands. The company hosted officials from the European Aviation Safety Agency, whose job it will be to certify the Liberty, which combines a three-wheel vehicle with a gyrocopter in […]

Registration for the EAA’s annual Women Soar You Soar program closes in two weeks. The program offers high-school-aged girls an opportunity to explore aviation career options, make discoveries and find new inspirations during AirVenture that this year begins in Oshkosh on July 24. The Women Soar program runs from July 23-26. EAA is committed to […]

Google’s Sergey Brin isn’t the only billionaire taking up a lot of hangar space with an ambitious and massive aircraft construction project. For years, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has desired to make access to space more convenient and affordable, and from that the idea for Stratolaunch was born. On Wednesday, the world got its first […]

A 26-year-old man was arrested at Orlando International Airport on Tuesday night after a standoff with police in the rental car area. According to reports, Michael Wayne Pettigrew was carrying a “simulated gun” under his black jacket, and he asked a female Mears driver to call 911 “to bring the police,” and because he also […]

Owners of the recently certified Daher TBM 930 can now benefit from simulator training after Simcom achieved FAA approval for a high-fidelity flight training device (FTD) for the single-engine turboprop. While it is not a full level-D simulator, the Frasca FTD provides a highly realistic flight training environment and qualifies for insurance requirements. Daher provided […]

The University of Iowa’s Operator Performance Laboratory, an aircraft simulation and flight testing organization, wants to better understand the workload level a pilot can handle before they become truly overwhelmed. OPL director Tom Schnell noted that pilots today, both military and civilian, push a great many buttons in the cockpit, efforts that take their eyes […]

John Travolta is donating his iconic ex-Qantas Boeing 707 to an Australian aviation museum and hopes to be part of the crew to deliver the vintage airliner when it’s ready to make the journey from the United States. The Hollywood star acquired the 1964 jet when Australia’s national carrier retired it more than 30 years […]

AOPA’s Air Safety Institute has introduced a monthly podcast series named “There I Was…” The podcasts are aimed at educating pilots through discussions with a variety of pilots talking about unexpected scenarios and how they survived them. “There I Was…” is hosted by ASI’s executive director Richard McSpadden, a former commander/flight leader of the USAF […]

On Sunday afternoon, the “tiny and tempestuous” Bogoslof Volcano erupted for approximately 45 minutes, shooting ash as high as 35,000 feet into the air, according to reports. In response, the Alaska Volcano Observatory temporarily elevated the Aviation Color Code to red, the highest such alert. The code was eventually lowered to orange again, as ash […]