When Barry Munsterteiger reached out to Checkmate Aviation for help with a checklist, he never expected to become the new owner of the company.
Fees for thee, but not for me?
A Montana state bill, if signed into law, will establish a line of who can, and can’t, be charged airport usage fees generated using ADS-B.
Different paths to the cockpit
Rachel Skirvin and Sarah Roark didn’t start their working lives in aviation, but made bold pivots once they found their passion. Their journeys prove aviation can be a second career — even for those from entirely different fields.
Here we go…again
The FAA opens a new remote tower facility in Atlantic City, but we’ve been down this path before.
Internalize the lesson
How do you best learn? Positive reinforcement? Admonishment for mistakes made? Writing and re-writing the lessons learned? And when you learn something, how do you internalize that lesson?
Do they really want to hear from us?
The juxtaposition of the Piper AD story and the story that followed put a smile on my face.
Hydrogen-electric powered Bonanza in development
Stralis currently has two A36 Bonanza airframes. The pair of A36-HEs are affectionally named Bonnie and Clyde.
FAA memo returns airport flexibility in flight testing
“Needlessly limiting airports during flight testing is detrimental to safety and the flight testing process itself.”
What’s up with unpaved field certification?
If you land on an unpaved runway in an airplane without an approval for operating on that runway type, and something goes wrong, I’d expect your insurer to scrutinize that event closely.









