Five people aboard a Beechcraft Bonanza were hospitalized on March 9 after the aircraft crashed less than a minute after takeoff and slid into the parking lot of an airport-adjacent retirement community in Pennsylvania.
There is nothing more satisfying to a flight instructor than "hearing" that metaphorical "click" that signals that a student has begun to think like a pilot.
Pilots are often taught that personal minimums should be treated like they are carved in stone, must be adhered to like the laws of physics, and should never be changed in flight.
This time of year, the sun sets earlier and earlier. It’s a beautiful time to fly, but there are several ways in which night flying is vastly different from flying during the day.
Learning how to handle emergencies is an essential component of flight training, whether you are a primary student or working on an additional certificate or rating.
If you have small children, a demanding job, school commitments, an overactive brain, or all of the above, you may feel slightly tired on a regular basis.
We talk about human factors often in aviation safety. This makes sense, because the human element is nearly always an influence on accidents and incidents. There are two primary elements in human factors: the human and the machine. Of these two, we already know which one is more reliable.
It’s a simple six-letter word set in bold italics in the FAA’s Pilot/Controller Glossary—that Rosetta Stone-type appendix found in the back of most FAR/AIM manuals.
A beautiful, clear morning sky stretched from Gallup, New Mexico, to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It was my second flight to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, and I had a good idea what to expect.
You’ve more-or-less learned to fly. You can accelerate down the runway, become airborne, and return to earth with sufficient grace to keep the airplane airworthy.
“What’s the weather like tomorrow?” my mother asked, casting her gaze out the hospital room window. I hadn’t been flying for a few weeks as I had been totally consumed with the recent, rapid decline of her health.
An aircraft door or window popping open in flight can be shocking and surprising, but it is usually not as big a deal as the movies and popular media would like you to believe.
An interesting series of events unfolded on a recent flight. When I downloaded the dispatch release and flight plan, there was a write-up from a previous day stating that two seats in the first class cabin were out of service. The seats themselves were not the problem.
As I write this, there is a brutal heat wave that is baking the U.S. Temperatures are in the triple digits in many places, and density altitudes are seeing some record highs, to say nothing of the misery index. Several news stories have been put out about the impact of the heat on air travel, especially in places like Phoenix and Las Vegas.
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