Weather

When weather or other circumstances force a tough choice, safety should always win over convenience.

Volunteers scramble to protect aircraft from potential flooding in southwest Washington State.

Pilots based on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado know that the winter brings on the mountain wave. What they don’t expect in winter? For that wave to feed a storm of flames on the ground. On Thursday afternoon, a grass fire likely sparked by downed power lines around Marshall was stoked into […]

Savannah Raskey started flying after college and went from a DA40 to flying acrobatics to getting her tailwheel. Now with over 600 hours and a Piper Cherokee Six, she is currently an undergraduate pilot in training at Vance AFB. Watch Savannah share her flying story and tips on her favorite SiriusXM Aviation features in this […]

Are you one of those pilots who opts to hang up their wings during the winter? While it is true that the shorter days, colder weather, ice, snow, and rain can make flying more of a challenge, there is no reason to slam on the brakes. With a little more planning you can make the […]

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 […]

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on FreightWaves.com. Jen had spent weeks looking for the perfect toy for her daughter for Christmas. Then she found it online and placed the order. Only days before Christmas, she chose drone delivery as the delivery option because the e-commerce site said it would be delivered on December 23, […]

“There were nails everywhere.” That’s just one glimpse into why the aerial support delivered by charitable aviation groups such as AeroBridge remained critical throughout the week after Hurricane Ida swept through the Gulf Coast. In total, AeroBridge flew more than 90,000 pounds of materials and supplies over the course of 90 missions—everything from food and […]

In May 2019, two men took off from Tipton Airport (KFME) in Fort Meade, Maryland, for a pleasure flight. They were in a Guimbal Cabri G2 helicopter, and had hoped to find and photograph a relative of the passenger who was fishing from a boat in the Chesapeake Bay. The morning was foggy; when the […]

We’ve all seen the reports of the devastation that’s being caused by Hurricane Ida. Homes are devastated, hundreds of thousands are without power, and worse. As so often happens during these types of disasters, members of the aviation community have already started to pitch in or stand by at the ready, doing whatever they can […]