Training

JetAviva, the Austin, Texas-based light jet sales and training specialist, has reached an agreement to buy Kansas Aircraft Corp., a Kansas City-area piston aircraft and turboprop sales broker, creating one of the country’s most formidable light aircraft resale firms. KAC, a former Cessna authorized dealer, was purchased three years ago by Tim and Dianne White, […]

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Specialized flight training has long been part of the typical transition process for pilots moving up to ever-faster and more capable airplanes. A rash of fatal SR22 crashes in 2012, however, forced Cirrus Aircraft to go back to the drawing board and completely rethink its approach to training. Nothing was out of bounds, from the […]

With education costs and career uncertainties being the two major concerns of many aspiring professional pilots, a new partnership between regional airlines, flight schools and university aviation programs addresses both issues in tandem, providing tuition assistance that comes with a guaranteed first officer job. “We’ve never had anything like this program in the industry,” says […]

Her name was Maddie, she was 11 years old, and she had never been in a small plane before. Dark-haired and dark-eyed, smaller and shyer than her giggling friends, Maddie had surprised me by shooting her hand skyward when I asked who wanted to sit up front. “OK, but just so you know, you might […]

The plain-vanilla ILS approach is about as straightforward as it gets, right? Except that with any given procedure there can be nuances that demand careful consideration. The ILS Runway 12 approach to Bozeman, Montana, for instance, includes a number of notes, symbols and verbage that you might not fully comprehend if you haven’t taken the […]

Pilots training for the instrument rating will again be permitted to log up to 20 hours in an approved aviation training device (ATD) after the FAA published a final rule that supersedes an earlier ruling, which cut sim training time to 10 hours. The FAA actually tried to fast-track the rule change in December 2014, […]

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Are you searching for a career in aviation that better suits you and your family’s lifestyle? Do you enjoy teaching? How about working with sophisticated computers and some of the top pilots from all over the world? If these questions intrigue you, then you may want to know more about the rapidly expanding realm of […]

Airborne upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) is now recognized as the key to reducing loss of control – in flight (LOC-I) accidents, the No. 1 cause of aviation fatalities. Prevailance Aerospace Safety Academy in Chesapeake, Virginia, is one of the world’s leading centers for providing UPRT and other specialty instruction, and its clients include […]