Inspired as a teen, Mikaela Young first learned to work on aircraft, and then to fly them—becoming the youngest pilot known to fight fires from an aircraft.
If you hear shouts of “hallelujah” on the approach frequency during your next flight it might be the result of SmartCharts, a new Garmin Pilot app feature designed to declutter and simplify charts, instrument approach plates, and other procedural graphics.
The newest public-use airfield in the country also happens to be the most remote, offering “a unique opportunity to experience the solitude and beauty of the high desert wilderness,” the Jim Richmond Backcountry Aviation Foundation announced May 28.
What started as a story about the small Stevensville Airport and the construction of a couple of outhouses for my Montana community newspaper, the Bitterroot Star, turned into a several-day-long affair in October that I will not soon forget.
While durable goods orders overall hit a rough patch in April, falling 6.3 percent according to the Commerce Department, general aviation aircraft makers bucked the trend, according to the latest data release from the General Aviation Manufacturers Association.
In primary training, go-arounds are practiced routinely to ensure student pilots are comfortable aborting a landing if, for any number of reasons, the pilot deems it unsafe to continue. But what about aborting a takeoff?