Aviation Safety

A “silver splash” this week in Wichita: Bombardier made the decision just 60 days ago to host its 25th Safety Standdown in person—but the mature event has once again drawn a significant cross-section of professional pilots and corporate flight departments attending. The two-day symposium runs Tuesday and Wednesday at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, with a […]

Inspector general alleges maintenance issues at American Airlines have resulted in unairworthy aircraft.

Editor’s note: FLYING staff writer and CFI Meg Godlewski is an expert on survival techniques for pilots. She wrote the survival chapter of AOPA’s ground school for CFIs. In this two-part series, she counsels pilots on how to avoid the potential disasters of an unscheduled, off-airport landing, as well as how you can survive if […]

A Melbourne, Florida, flight school may have unknowingly flown seven unairworthy flights after a former employee allegedly hacked into the facility’s computer system, according to police documents. Lauren Lide, 26, was arrested and booked by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office on October 9, according to the sheriff’s website. She had worked at Melbourne Flight Training […]

Editor’s note: FLYING staff writer and CFI Meg Godlewski is an expert on survival techniques for pilots. She wrote the survival chapter of AOPA’s ground school for CFIs. In this two-part series, she instructs pilots on how to build a survival kit, as well as how you can survive if you’re forced to make an […]

At its core, the key to success for the autothrottle that formed the basis for the ThrustSense series from Innovative Solutions & Support was to “design an actuator that was fail-safe—there was no failure, no jamming, and no issues that would cause jamming of the throttle to prevent the pilot from moving the power lever,” […]

The great American radio and television comedian George Burns emerged in America during the vaudeville era and became known as a king of the one-liners delivered in his uniquely subtle deadpan style—and always with an El Producto cigar between the fingers of his left hand. Before his death in 1996 at the age of 100, […]

In fall 1967, I was a Marine second lieutenant and completed my first solo in a Navy T-34. After a couple of times around the pattern, the instructor got out, slapped me on the helmet, and told me to make three touch-and-goes and come back to pick him up. In fall 2017, I completed my […]

The pilot, 40, was an instrument flight instructor and held a commercial certificate, with airplane single-engine and multiengine land ratings and an instrument rating. He had something over 1,400 hours and made his living giving flight instruction. His logbook displayed the required endorsement for “training stall awareness, spin entry, spins and spin-recovery procedures.” He mostly […]

“Isn’t it dangerous to be a pilot?” If a pilot had a nickel for every time someone outside the aviation world asked them that question, they would be able to purchase a very large, overpriced, specialty cup of coffee. What’s the Real Story? Pilots can assure those outside of the aviation industry that they are […]