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Veteran Pilot Warns About Recognizing the Hidden Danger
86-year-old recounts near-disastrous experience with weight and balance.
Weight and Balance
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How to Beat the Summer Heat When Flying
Tips for when the weather gets warmer, and both pilots and aircraft struggle.
When You Go Back to Flight School, Don’t Lose What You’ve Learned
FLYING offers some tips for anyone facing a pause in their pilot training so they can retain their aviation knowledge.
Weight, Weight, Don’t Tell Me
A long-ago flight out of Dallas almost ended in a total loss.
Did You Know ForeFlight Did This?
The coolest new features on the ForeFlight app are showcased at Oshkosh.
ForeFlight Rolls Out Update with Hazard Advisor Altitude Previews
The update includes enhanced weight and balance integrated into flight plans and hazard avoidance integration. Military subscribers have additional features available to them.
ForeFlight Integrates Features into Single Source for BizAv Operators
ForeFlight has integrated several key features into a single flight planning and in-flight source for business aviation operators. The dispatch, runway analysis, and weight and balance functions—among other tools—can be shared across a flight department. ForeFlight’s executive vice president of sales and marketing Stephen Newman and marketing manager Sam Taylor gave FLYING a briefing on […]
Overloaded Takeoff in the Outback
It was my first flying job—the one you dreamed about having all your life. The one for which you strove, saved and worked so hard, and it was finally real. I had to leave my native New Zealand and move to the Australian Outback to get it, but that just made it all the more […]
