“Landing is an art based on visual cues processed by the pilot. Land-DAR can change this art of landing into more of a science with specific information as to height above the runway,” Send Solutions officials say.
Picture of the Day: Woodstock Flight
Eric Dumigan submitted this photo and note: “Planes from the Woodstock Flying Club on the way to Bushhawk Creek.”
Video: Spacewalker II
Travel to McKinney, Texas, to meet Pat Long and learn about his one-of-a-kind military-inspired Spacewalker II.
Spirit of Flight Museum lands at KMAN
Now based in Westminster, Colorado, the Spirt of Flight Center is expected to move its collection to Nampa Municipal Airport in Idaho when its new facility is completed in November 2021.
Tiger in the Sea published
The book tells the tale of the Atlantic Ocean ditching of Flying Tiger airline flight 923 in September 1962.
Picture of the Day: Sunset flight
Terry Hayes submitted this photo and note: “A calm evening for float flying in Montana.”
Using Apple Maps to find Amelia
An amateur sleuth is using satellite images from Apple Maps to help find Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan.
Win a Grumman AA5 Traveler, help future aviators
Proceeds from the raffle will go to the East Central Ohio Pilots Association’s Education and Safety Foundation, which provides flight training scholarships to future pilots. Tickets are $75 for one and $195 for three, with just 4,000 tickets being sold.
ATP Flight School opens new training center in Dallas with plans to train 20,000 pilots by 2030
“With a shortage of qualified airline pilots representing 10% of the total professional pilot workforce by 2023,” the new training center at Arlington Municipal Airport in Texas “joins ATP’s 60 other locations nationwide to increase capacity and train 20,000 airline pilots over the next ten years,” according to company officials.