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Two people aboard are uninjured. Landing was precautionary due to a low oil-pressure reading, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
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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.
There are only three standard entries [...]
The Federal Aviation Administration says pilots are required to become familiar with all aspects of their flight before they take off.
Now, there's an app for that.
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A certain FAA official in D.C. sent this to me.
Happy holidays, Sharon!
Before anyone gets the wrong idea, this is a stunt pilot at an airshow who really knows his [...]
If the students aren’t coming to you, then you have to go to them.
A Texas flight school parked a Remos GX light sport airplane inside the Vista Ridge Mall in Lewisville between Thanksgiving and Christmas, selling 170 introductory flights and garnering leads on 130 possible aircraft partnerships.
“What we learned was that many people think about aviation, but fail to act on the impulse,” said Justin Shelley, director of aircraft sales for US Aviation. Putting an aircraft in their line of sight prompted passersby to stop and talk about pilot certification or ownership, he said.
The Federal Aviation Administration says it is stepping up oversight of American Airlines in the wake of three botched landings by the carrier over an 11-day period.
The latest incident, which prompted heightened FAA scrutiny of American’s operations, involved a jetliner whose wingtip struck the ground while landing in Austin, Texas, on Christmas Eve. There were no injuries and the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft was inspected and returned to service. But the incident raised concern inside the FAA, according to people familiar with the matter, because it followed two more-serious landing mistakes on aircraft operated by the AMR Corp. unit in December.
For many Instrument Rating students, getting into a holding pattern the right way is one of the most difficult parts of training.
There are only three standard entries into a holding pattern – the teardrop, parallel and direct entry. But, during flight, students soon discover that it seems like none of the entries will work. Everything you learned on the ground seems all upside-down and backwards. Read more…
Before anyone gets the wrong idea, this is a stunt pilot at an airshow who really knows his stuff. Who else can go into an aggravated stall less than 100 AGL and still bring the plane out into a full recovery?
Overlay of National Weather Service radar summary, combined with weather.com data, in Google Earth.
I love it when I turn over a stone and find a treasure. Especially, if it’s one that’s going to make it easier to see the big weather picture.
The National Weather Service now makes its aviation weather data available for visualization on Google Earth, the free tool that is bringing the planet into our living rooms via computer.
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The Federal Aviation Administration says it is stepping up oversight of American Airlines in the wake of three botched landings by the carrier over an 11-day period.
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