AOPA President Craig Fuller is urging the public and policy-makers to remain thoughtful and well-reasoned regarding the recent suicide crash of a Piper Dakota into a U.S. Internal [...]
PBS airs a powerful, new interactive online documentary on what it means to fly for a U.S. regional airline.
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For many Instrument Rating students, getting into a holding pattern the right way is one of the most difficult parts of training.
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The Federal Aviation Administration says pilots are required to become familiar with all aspects of their flight before they take off.
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U.S. officials say they’ve stopped all civilian flights from the United States to Haiti at the request of the Haitian government, because there is no room on the ground for more planes and not enough jet fuel for planes to go back.
A U.S. official said the Federal Aviation Administration imposed the “ground stop” on flights bound to Haiti Thursday morning and the Haitian government was no longer accepting planes into Haitian airspace. The official was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The official says when flights were halted there were 11 planes circling the earthquake-damaged airport in Port-au-Prince, but no room to store more planes on the ground once they landed.
The official said there was only limited jet fuel for planes leaving Haiti.
Embraer recently announced the first delivery of the Phenom 300 executive jet with Garmin’s Prodigy avionics installed. Executive Flight Services, who already operates a fleet of Phenom 100, was ready to take delivery with four pilots who have already completed training for the 300.
This is the first step in the continuing success of this amazing aircraft.
Pilot Dave Keller tells his story about The Impossible Turn after his engine failed.
Dave Keller needed to land immediately – but rather than landing straight ahead or off to the side, he chose to execute the “Impossible Turn” back to the airport: a risky and often fatal maneuver.
With aerial footage captured by Keller’s own video camera, this Real Pilot Story puts you in the right seat as the event develops.
Learn why returning to the runway below pattern altitude is a dangerous gamble.
View the footage and learn more from The Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association’s Air Safety Foundation’s latest Real Pilot Story: The Impossible Turn »
“We have all experienced moments where we are left scratching our heads trying to figure out “what just happened?”
Have you ever been distracted while taxiing? Have you ever planned your flight, checked weather, and yet inadvertently encountered IMC? Have you ever read back a clearance incorrectly? If so, you have likely thought about what happened and how you can prevent it from happening in the future. That means, whether you realized it or not, you were thinking about human factors and aviation.”
Tyler Allen takes a ride in Greg Brown's "Flying Carpet" over the Navajo reservation.
So few Native Americans grace the halls of aviation that when one does, it catches our attention.
They are folks like Jerry Elliott High Eagle (Osage-Cherokee), a NASA scientist who helped design the International Space Station, or John Bennett Herrington (Cherokee), a NASA astronaut who flew on the 16th Space Shuttle mission.
And, in a few short years, there might also be Tyler Allen, a bright, talkative, enthusiastic 8th grader from the Navajo Nation, who is already getting some cockpit time thanks to mentors Adriel Heisey, who is a Navajo Nation pilot, and Master CFI Greg Brown.
Read an account of one of Tyler’s more recent adventures, appearing in this month’s Aircraft Owners & Pilot’s Association Flight Training magazine, and reprinted here on Greg’s blog »
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