Roger Helton, CEO of SuperPetrel USA, sent in this photo, of one of the company’s LSAs preparing to take off from the Boggy Creek Canal in Florida.
Would you like to have your photo featured as Picture of the Day? You can submit it via this form.
All photos sent in for Picture of the Day are also considered for our new Page 4 photo feature in the print issue of General Aviation News, as well as A Year in Pictures in the December issues. [Read more…]
As the thousands of visitors walked around the SUN ’n FUN grounds this year, it must have been hard for them to imagine the devastation that Hurricane Irma brought to the airport just eight months ago.
The hurricane roared through Lakeland on Sept. 10, 2017, with sustained winds of 100 mph and gusts over 120 mph.
“The SUN ’n FUN property sits on the south side of the airport and the winds were from the northeast, so they came, unabated, across all the acres of property until it hit dead on into the heart of SUN ’n FUN,” recalls John “Lites” Leenhouts, SUN ’n FUN president.
What that meant was “huge foliage devastation,” he said. [Read more…]
By JOHN CROFT, FAA NextGen Outreach Writer/Editor
Pilots will soon have access to new weather data in their cockpits over the 978 megahertz (MHz) Universal Access Transceiver link.
In June, the FAA will begin broadcasting six new weather products: Lightning strikes, turbulence, icing forecasts, cloud tops, graphical Airmen’s Meteorological Information (AIRMET) and Center Weather Advisories.
The new weather information will complement the original 13 “baseline” weather products —including Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) mosaics, winds aloft and terminal forecasts — in the Flight Information Services-Broadcast (FIS-B) feed. [Read more…]
CANNES, France – Australia’s Matt Hall won the premiere of the Red Bull Air Race in France, held the weekend of April 21-22, 2018. [Read more…]
SAN MARCOS, Texas – Berry Aviation recently broke ground on a $2.7 million, 31,000-square-foot expansion of its headquarters at San Marcos Regional Airport. [Read more…]
Traveling by general aviation airplanes can be a wonderful and enjoyable experience that provides a convenient means of personal transportation.
But before jumping into a private plane, it’s important to understand whether the intended flight will be safe before takeoff. Many private-airplane passengers have no idea whether their pilot is about to conduct a safe flight or a very risky one.
That’s what led to the new book, “Private-Airplane Passenger Safety: What You Need to Know,” by Master Pilot John O. Graybill. [Read more…]
The pilot was relocating the recently-purchased Cessna 150J, departing on the three-hour flight with full fuel tanks, which provided an endurance of about five hours.
During the descent to the airport in Bixby, Oklahoma, he advanced the mixture control to full rich, applied carburetor heat, and began to retard the throttle. The engine then suddenly experienced a total loss of power. [Read more…]
CFI Matt Beyer took this photo of Pikes Peak in Colorado while doing mountain flying training with Geremy Kornreich in October, 2017.
“The Cessna 182Q is well below the mountain’s summit of 14,114 above sea level,” reports Kornreich. “The famous Pikes Peak Highway is clearly visible to the right.”
Would you like to have your photo featured as Picture of the Day? You can submit it via this form. [Read more…]
“I thought your platform would help me figure out how introduce the following idea to my husband,” began the email that appeared in my email box on April 15.
“I’m just beginning in my quest to find flying lessons to give to him as a gift. He’s a semi-retired software engineer (I’ve got to tell you, the guy’s brilliant). He loves airplanes and helicopters, has sat in as a guest in a few co-pilot’s seats, has taken a few helicopter flights, and has done some hang-gliding. I know that learning to fly would enhance his/our retirement, and perhaps even lead to a new career for him. [Read more…]
The Dominican Republic and FltPlan.com signed a formal agreement at SUN ‘n FUN for the Dominican Republic to become the first country in the Caribbean to accept electronic flight plans.
Previously, outside the U.S and Canada, web-based flight plans only worked for flights from the Bahamas to the U.S.
Industry spokesmen said the expectation is that the Dominican Republic’s decision could revolutionize Caribbean flight planning, prompting other countries in the Caribbean Basin to also accept web-based flight plan platforms for departure flight plans. [Read more…]
