Aircraft & Ownership
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Answers for Pilots: Getting back into flying
Has it been a while since you’ve flown? Pilots are busy people--sometimes even too busy to fly! We can get so wrapped up in our activities that before we realize it, our proficiency has lost its edge and our currency lapses.
Read More >>Aging Aircraft
This course will help you recognize the symptoms of aircraft aging, understand its impact, and mitigate the risks (approx. 45-60 minutes).(Read the disclaimer.)
Aircraft Maintenance from the Educated Owner
The process of learning how to fly is rigorous and thorough, yet it seems to include little training about the aircraft itself. Through this series, you'll learn how to become a more knowledgeable aircraft owner and gain how-to tips for owner-performed preventive maintenance.
Read More >>AOPA Forums
Nearly 10,000 pilots share their insight and experiences in our fun, informative AOPA Forums. Join in the discussion with pilots from around the world or use the more than 500,000 posts to research a wide variety of flying topics. It’s another benefit of AOPA membership!
Read More >>News
Brazil's Wega debuts
Fresh from a 4,000-nautical-mile shakedown cross-country flight, Brazil's brand-new all-composite, experimental-category Wega is attracting a lot of attention at the Sun 'n Fun International Fly-In & Expo in Lakeland, Fla.
Zenith breaks from STOL mold
Zenith Aircraft Co. introduced a new light sport model at the Sun 'n Fun International Fly-In & Expo. Although it is a new design, the all-metal, two-seat CH 750 Cruzer is influenced by its well-known short-takeoff-and-landing predecessors.
'From LOL to SOS': DeLorme adds virtual keyboard
A new model of inReach satellite communications device offers a color screen, virtual keyboard, and the ability to text any cellphone, email address, or social media page, DeLorme announced at the Sun 'n Fun International Fly-In & Expo April 9.
myWingMan adds ADS-B weather
Pilots can get weather right on their iPad through Bendix/King's myWingMan electronic flight bag. The app's latest release includes ADS-B weather with prog charts, graphical winds aloft, METARs, and TAFs.
Flight Design delays C4 for Part 23 rewrite
Flight Design reported strong sales--a $1.99 million backlog of CTLSi orders and a $20 million backlog for the coming four-seat C4--and a delay C4 deliveries to 2015 pending revision of the Part 23 standards.
A Fleet with a history shines in the Florida sun
A biplane that once belonged to author Richard Bach and was nearly destroyed in 1988 has been painstakingly restored and is again winning prizes.
Avidyne unveils new traffic alert technology
Using a combination of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, radar, and active transponder scanning, Avidyne Corp. says it will be the first to bring to market the next generation of traffic alerting.
MW Fly brings new engines to Sun 'n Fun
Italy's MW Fly, a spinoff of MW Motor Sports, has brought its new line of Aeropower engines, designed for light sport and experimental aircraft to the United States to debut at the Sun 'n Fun International Fly-In & Expo. The engines have been adapted from technology used to build motorsport engines.
And the Best Aircraft Showdown winner is...
After nearly four weeks of battles, the Douglas DC-3 beat out the F4U Corsair by a vote of 1,255 to 919 to win this year's AOPA Best Aircraft Showdown, sponsored by Aero-Space Reports.
Burt Rutan developing new seaplane
Two years after retirement, Burt Rutan is at it again, developing a new seaplane called the Skigull at his cabin near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
