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The debate over the impending Airman Certification Standards begs an answer to this age-old question.

When you decide that you’re ready to learn how to fly, finding the right instructor is crucial.

This fireside chat recap is from FLYING’s “What’s Next in General Aviation” Virtual Event on Wednesday. FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: How flight training simulators are becoming more personalized. DETAILS: FLYING’s Thom Patterson talks with Josh Harnagel about his company’s new personalized training app that gamifies the process of staying proficient. Also, they discuss how flight sims […]

Thrust Flight School announced a new location at North Texas Regional Airport (KGYI) in Denison, Texas, this week. They are the first flight school to take off at NTRA since U.S. Aviation left last year. School Details The school focuses on turning out safe and well-trained pilots from an accelerated timeline, advertising zero hours to […]

Former premier of the Soviet Union Vladimir Ilyich Lenin once said, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” If you hold that axiom up to the light, you might think that this uncanny attribution was about the aviation industry. Sometimes the industry inches along like Caribbean molasses; other times, […]

In the July 28 edition of the Journal of Transportation (JAT), researchers from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University published a study that argued that “a lack of weather knowledge and poor product interpretability may be contributing to the high probability of fatalities in general aviation (GA) weather-related accidents.” Despite all the technological progress we’ve made in the […]

The Pilot Proficiency Center, one of the popular temporary educational exhibits at EAA AirVenture will soon have a permanent home at the EAA Museum. A 30,000-square-foot addition is under construction as part of Project 21, an endeavor to increase and improve the museum’s educational offerings. It is located on the south side of the building […]

ATP Flight School opened its new 25,875-square-foot airline pilot training center on Friday. The new facility is located at Arlington Municipal Airport (KGKY), 20 minutes from Dallas, Texas. It grows ATP’s network of flight training locations to 70. The Arlington location is now the largest flight training facility in Texas, and it will help support […]

“In instrument training, if you’re not doing something, you’re missing something,” Chris said. Chris was my new instructor, assigned to me for my instrument training. I didn’t understand what he meant at the time, until one quiet night we were flying along, and the instructions from the air traffic controller, who called out numbers like […]

“Be careful out there. These kids will try to kill ya,” my instructor said to me after he signed me off for my multi-engine instructor (MEI) checkride. Having just completed my own series of engines-out training and seeing my own reaction, I understood what he meant about how unsuspecting our human nature is. Years before, […]