“It’s amazing. If this thing didn’t have all these limiters on it, I would’ve taken it up to 500′ and just flown back to the strip,” said Casey Neistat. “I felt that confident.” Who is Casey Neistat and what is he talking about? Casey Neistat is a YouTuber, among other things. He makes wildly popular […]
GA SPARK hopes to be the spark that’ll ignite the industry
San Carlos Flight Center (SCFC) opened in 2012 with one airplane and some experience at other flight schools and flying clubs. Six years later, membership is roughly 400 and they boast 26 aircraft in the fleet at San Carlos Airport (KSQL). SCFC’s owner Dan Dyer readily admits their location near California’s Silicon Valley affords them […]
Go ahead and ignore that FAA email
Is the Federal Aviation Authority (yep, you read that correctly) trying to connect with you? After all, they’re trying to connect with me. Check out the following screenshot of an email that just arrived to my inbox. While I’m not an email expert, I feel pretty confident that I can ignore this email from the […]
Are you sure we aren’t moving?
During SUN ‘n FUN I had an opportunity “fly” ALSIM’s AL250 flight simulator. Stepping into the cockpit of the AL250 brought me back to the 1980s when I attended the University of North Dakota and flew countless hours in Frasca simulators. The AL250, as I flew it, had a glass cockpit, a twin engine throttle quadrant, […]
One tricked out Maule
“We started with a stock M7-235,” said Maule Aircraft President Brent Maule. “The modifications were made using primarily STC’d products.”
Airspace has never been more valuable, and will never again be this cheap
Lately, I’ve had two images stuck in my head. The first is an Interstate highway overwhelmed by gridlock. The second is a graph of the population of the United States. As the population continues to climb, real estate continues to increase in value. Along with population increases come surface transportation challenges. Unless we annex Canada […]
New WingBug is a portable pitot static system and more
WingBug is a new Air Data Heading Reference System (ADAHRS). Weighing just 11.8 ounces, the WingBug system uses built-in WiFi to broadcast data to the WingBug App to display traditional six-pack instrument data on an iPad. Onboard sensors measure pitot static pressure, temperature, and barometric altitude and include an accelerometer, gyro, and magnetometer, as well […]
Ever seen a Cessna Tail Slide?
Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention. That is certainly the case for Pete and Shiley Nelson from Challis, Idaho. The husband and wife have owned and operated Middle Fork Aviation in the backcountry of Idaho for more than two decades. I met up with Pete and Shiley at the Great Alaska Aviation […]
Aergility introduces ATLIS VTOL
The Aergility ATLIS unmanned aerial vehicle, according to Founder and CEO Jim Vander Mey, is designed to take off and land vertically using electrically powered rotors. Once airborne, a gas-powered engine will provide all forward thrust to push the ATLIS at speeds around 100 mph. An email reply from Jim states “the powerplant we have […]