SAN CARLOS, California — The Upwind Foundation is accepting applications for the 2020 scholarship program.
Upwind provides a scholarship that includes flight and ground school training for a high school student to prepare them to obtain their private pilot certificate during the summer between their junior and senior year.
[Read more…]The student pilot reported that, during landing, a strong wind gust “pushed” the Beech B19 left laterally across the runway at the airport in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
[Read more…]Ibu Alvarado submitted the following photo and note: “A 1951 Cessna 140A hanging out at the Las Lajas beach on Panama’s Pacific Coast.”
[Read more…]The Bemidji Flying Club in Minnesota just posted a new video to YouTube of “another fun pancake run to Kindred with the Bonanza and Champ.”
It’s short and thoroughly enjoyable. Check it out below.
[Read more…]PSI Services, an FAA contractor that handles pilot testing, has launched a survey of pilots designed to “shape the future of the aviation community by helping to identify pilot requirements that are critical to the safe operation of an aircraft.”
The purpose of the survey is to identify the tasks performed by pilots, PSI Services officials explain.
“The results of this analysis will be used to update the specifications for certification examinations so that the examinations reflect current practices,” officials say in the introduction to the survey.
[Read more…]Aerospace Welding Minneapolis, Inc. (AWI) has received a PMA from the FAA to manufacture, sell, and install mufflers, as well as front, center and rear stacks, for the Piper PA-32, PA-32R, PA-32RT-300, and PA-32R-301.
[Read more…]According to the pilot of the tailwheel-equipped CubCrafters CC11, he was practicing touch-and-go takeoffs and landings on the turf adjacent to the paved runway at the airport in Spanish Fork, Utah.
During the landing roll, he applied the brakes too aggressively and the airplane nosed over.
[Read more…]Jim Roberts submitted the following photo and note: “A Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet greets the day at McGhee Tyson Airport (KTYS) in Knoxville, Tennessee.”
[Read more…]The FAA has issued a flight advisory that GPS reception may be unavailable or unreliable over a large portion of the southeastern states and the Caribbean between Jan. 16 and 24, due to offshore military exercises.
According to FAA officials, the exercises require jamming GPS signals for several hours each day.
Navigation guidance, ADS-B, and other services associated with GPS could be affected for up to 400 nautical miles at Flight Level 400, down to a radius of 180 nm at 50′ above the ground.
[Read more…]On Jan. 13, 2020, the FAA launched improvements to the way it tests all applicants for an FAA airman certificate. A 20-minute webinar posted to YouTube in late December outlines all the changes, including a requirement that all applicants obtain an FAA Tracking Number (FTN) by creating an Integrated Airman Certification and Rating Application (IACRA) profile prior to registering for a knowledge test.
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