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| April 10, 2025

HondaJet owners seek to stem runway excursions with training

A HondaJet HA–420 overran an Oregon coast runway and came to rest partially submerged in Coos Bay on April 7, followed by another into the grass in Florida on April 9—the latest of more than two dozen similar incidents. The owners group seeks to arrest that trend with pilot training.

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| April 2, 2025

Former students sue United Aviate Academy

Two dozen former students of the United Aviate Academy accused the school owned by United Airlines of fraud and deceptive trade practices in a lawsuit seeking class action status.

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Pilot Training and Certification

| March 14, 2025

CAU created content Taking Flight

For many aspiring pilots, the dream of flying for an airline can feel distant. But for Brycen Yamaguchi, a graduate of California Aeronautical University, that dream became a reality.

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| February 26, 2025

ATP Flight School announces quarterly training giveaway

ATP Flight School will give an Airbus A320 type rating and an Airline Transport Pilot Certification Training Program (ATP CTP) each quarter to randomly selected alumni, the school announced February 19.

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Flight Training Magazine

| January 1, 2025

Lean on me

Anita Ammon and Ava Trate could be mother and daughter, or maybe more likely big sister and little sis.

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Training Tips

| October 1, 2024

Safety in numbers

By Chris Burns

With the Piper Twin Comanche’s left engine fuel selector positioned to Off, the engine ran for 30 seconds or so before it stumbled, surged once, and then died.

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Flight Training Magazine

| August 1, 2024

It takes two

For decades, there’s been an argument regarding the value of twin-engine airplanes versus single-engine airplanes. As co-owner of one of each, I agree that both designs have their virtues and drawbacks.

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Pilot Turbine Magazine

| July 1, 2024

Party line

By: J. Mac Mclellan

Every good weather briefing includes pireps. Those are pilot reports of turbulence, cloud cover, icing, and other flight conditions that have made their way through the weather reporting system. And they are useful for planning. But pilots of turbine airplanes benefit from a constant exchange of flight condition reports that are useful when it matters most—in flight.

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Advanced Training

| June 21, 2024

Value added

The trek from runway to runway is well-trodden for many general aviation pilots.

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Flight Training Magazine

| June 1, 2024

'The Hill'

By Don Peterson

I had my behind handed to me today.

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Flight Training Magazine

| June 1, 2024

Get a seaplane rating

Seaplanes open the doors to some of aviation’s best adventures.

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Pilot Magazine

| May 23, 2024

Circling approaches

By Bruce Williams

IFR pilots train for an event that they rarely perform in normal operations—circling approaches.

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Flight Training Magazine

| May 1, 2024

Flying into busy class B airports

Flying into a busy airport can be challenging because of the traffic volume and rapid-fire instructions, yes, but the expanded procedures and need to plan ahead deserve as much of the blame. More preparation on the ground will result in a smoother experience in the air. Try to enjoy the experience, and don’t forget to bring your credit card because the bills won’t be cheap.

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Pilot Magazine

| May 1, 2024

Float on

Old West pioneer history meets a touch of California glitz in Truckee, a small town perched in the mountains to the west of Reno, Nevada, just a few miles north-northwest of Lake Tahoe, and east of the Donner Pass (yes, named for those Donners).

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Pilot Magazine

| April 1, 2024

Hard to rush

I have a goal to earn a commercial multiengine rating, and since I work at a GA airport, I thought I’d quickly have a coveted temporary certificate in hand.

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Pilot Turbine Magazine

| March 27, 2024

Hayden,Colorado RNAV (GPS) 28

One of the advantages of RNAV (GPS) approaches was supposed to be the ability to build straight-in approaches and produce lower approach minimums. By and large, that has been the case, but there are exceptions. One of them is the RNAV (GPS) 28 into Yampa Valley Airport (HDN) in Hayden, Colorado.

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Flight Training Magazine

| February 22, 2024

Ratings bingo

Some pilots are on a mission. They progress through certificates and ratings with the efficiency of a checklist: everything in sequence, each item by the book. These pilots have calculated hour requirements and hiring minimums, track their progress against a mental timeline, and map out their training to achieve a final goal (see Dave Hirschman’s “Another Beginning,"). For those of us with no future paycheck at stake, however, the calculus is different.

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Flight Training Magazine

| February 22, 2024

Instrument landing systems

Instrument landing systems enable pilots to make safe landings in both visual and instrument meteorological conditions.

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Pilot Magazine

| February 22, 2024

Impress the examiner

I generally steer clear of offering advice that focuses on passing a checkride as I like to think that we examiners are in the business of certificating knowledgeable, skilled, and safe pilots.

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Turbine

| January 11, 2024

Flying pitch mode

The latest generation autopilots integrated into the flight decks of modern jets are automation wonders.

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Flight Training Magazine

| January 2, 2024

Fly like an autopilot

In trying to figure out how to land this new-to-me aircraft, I turned to a knowledgeable but untalkative source: a flight simulator.

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| November 7, 2023

Airlines draw pilots from business aviation

Big salaries, signing bonuses, and a strong recruiting presence at aviation colleges have more new pilots than ever flocking to the major airlines, while private business aviation faces a challenging new reality.

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Pilot Magazine

| October 24, 2023

Airspeed myths

Over the years I have had many discussions about flight fundamentals with a wide range of pilots, whether during aerobatic instruction, administering a checkride, or just swapping stories with local pilots when the weather keeps our airplanes tucked in their hangars.

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Flight Training Magazine

| August 30, 2023

Sim training

Airlines all handle their training scheduling differently. In my case, I’ve done the ‘old fashioned’ 12 month cycle, as well as the more modern nine month cycle.

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| July 26, 2023

Demand for pilots rebounds in new Boeing forecast

Commercial aviation will need 649,000 pilots, 690,000 technicians, and 938,000 cabin crewmembers over the next 20 years, Boeing Co. forecast in the Pilot and Technician Outlook 2023–2042 released July 25 at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in Wisconsin. This year marks the first increase in the annual forecast since the pandemic cratered air travel in 2020.

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| June 22, 2023

Diamond turboprop takes first flight

Diamond Aircraft’s DART-750 aerobatic trainer took its first flight at Diamond headquarters in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, on June 12.

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Pilot Turbine Magazine

| May 25, 2023

It doesn’t fly like an airplane

By J. Mac MCClellan

If you are fortunate enough to move up to flying a jet, you’ll almost certainly complete your initial type rating training and checkride in a simulator, not the airplane.

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Pilot Turbine Magazine

| March 23, 2023

Type rating word soup

I often ask private pilot applicants at the beginning of their oral exam, “After you pass your checkride, you will be issued a certificate that says you are rated to fly single-engine land airplanes. Will you then be legal to act as PIC in any and all single-engine landplanes?”

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