In his study of 236 general aviation airports in Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida, Michael Jones found “dozens of examples of politicians making perfectly logical decisions which were completely wrong for an airport.”
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Video: ‘A lack of operational discipline by pilots’
The Flight Safety Detectives, well-known aviation-industry consultants and former NTSB investigators John Goglia and Greg Feith, discuss a variety of general aviation incidents that happened on the ground, such as running over taxi lights, hitting another airplane on the ground while taxiing, or taking off with a tow bar still attached.
Starduster Too captures attention wherever it flies
“You know when you taxi this aircraft down to the runway, all eyes are on you.”
A flight school only for tailwheel pilots
Todd Givens, owner of Ace Basin Aviation Academy at KRBW is an expert in tailwheel flying instruction. “I only train pilots who want an endorsement to fly tailwheel aircraft, plus pilots who are considering the purchase of a tailwheel aircraft, and finally students who want to earn their private pilot license in a tailwheel aircraft,” he explained.
Video: Magical Mooney
Just posted to the YouTube channel “Flying with Rich” is a video about the “magical Mooney,” which was owned, at one time, by Bill Cox of ABC’s Wide World of Flying. It starts with some vintage video that’s truly enjoyable.
Just what the doctor ordered
Dr. Ron Bingham’s hangar at at McKeller-Sipes Regional Airport (KMKL) in Jackson, Tennessee, has a 70-foot by 16-foot Schweiss Doors hydraulic door equipped with remote openers. He keeps a CJ1 and a Cirrus SR22 in the new hangar.
Conquering the tailwheel
After a years-long break from aviation, Steve Quinn returns with a determination to learn how to fly a tailwheel airplane.
Scenes from the Fall Festival of Flight
It was rather cold and windy, but that didn’t stop just under 100 aircraft from attending the event.
Behind the Radar: What are air traffic controllers really like?
Pilots often think of air traffic controllers as a mysterious group of individuals hidden away in those towering glass rooms or those dark and secret radar dungeons. Take a peek behind the radar screen…