It’s just before sunrise in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and already the sky is dotted with the red beacons and twinkling flames of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta’s “Dawn Patrol,” a group of specially equipped nighttime balloon operators who have helped other balloonists get an early indication of wind speed and directions at different altitudes since 1978.
It’s a rabbit warren of rooms and offices, closets and machinery, aircraft parts and blueprints, jigs and cowlings and fuselages hanging from the ceilings, and packed file cabinets with orders, manuals, and specifications, yet Jim Dyer knows where everything is and where to find even the most obscure item.
Abeam his intended landing spot while flying on the downwind leg of the pattern, my commercial pilot candidate, Eddie, pulled the throttle back to idle and set up to glide for the remainder of the flight.
The owner of a 2005 Cessna T182 was on vacation in Key West, Florida. He decided to go up for a local sightseeing flight, but when he started the Lycoming TIO-540 engine it seemed to be running rough.
Of all the pain points in the aircraft purchasing process, the prepurchase evaluation is the most ouchy. It’s difficult to bring together, the results are sometimes not definitive, and it’s expensive. It’s also essential.
If you are practicing flying an aircraft solely by reference to instruments with a safety pilot or instructor and the weather is VMC, you need a way to obscure your view outside the aircraft.
Stars dot the sky above a brightly lit de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth, its spinning propeller cutting a shiny circular swath through the November night as the Gypsy Major engine fights for the attention of two dozen photographers pointing their cameras toward the red biplane at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Red Hook, New York.
Game Composites is building a single-engine firebomber that its designer says will carry more and fly farther and faster than any other aircraft in its category.
It’s rare that a technology comes along that’s so transformative it completely changes the way we think about training pilots. Virtual reality has that potential.
“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
The Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE), first adopted in 1975, govern how facts and conclusions drawn from evidence are used during trials in civil and criminal lawsuits.
Are you one of those drivers or pilots who will go out of their way to find the least expensive gas prices? Then you need to take advantage of a great AOPA member benefit—our fuel price map.
Some pilots may think that a “safety culture” only applies to the airlines and other professional operations, but even a single, individual pilot can develop and implement their own positive safety culture.
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The AOPA You Can Fly High School Aviation STEM Symposium marked the event’s tenth year, concentrating on providing teaching professionals with tools to support students who have an interest in aviation and giving attendees the opportunity to meet and network with industry experts and aviation educators.
Sporty’s Pilot Shop has added an innovative feature it calls Sporty’s Aviation Intelligence to the company’s online Learn to Fly, Instrument Rating, and Commercial Pilot training courses.
Another year, another exciting lineup of events that will have AOPA members enjoying the world of aviation from the best advantage. From our own events at local airshows to showcases at the big shows like Sun ’n Fun and EAA AirVenture, we have an exciting year of flying and fun planned.