The FAA recently announced significant changes to the flight and ground operations, as well as communications, at non-towered airports. There are some important updates all pilots need to know about. Traffic patterns have changed, as have arrival and departure procedures, and the way pilots communicate intentions. WINGsREALITY Edu is hosting a webinar on Thursday, June […]
CiES Approved Model List grows
Aircraft owners interested in improving the accuracy of the reporting of their fuel levels should take a look at CiES fuel senders. The most recent expansion of CiES’s Approved Model List (AML) Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) now covers the majority of active single engine aircraft and adds to its growing approval for popular twin-engine aircraft. […]
Miss Veedol’s summer schedule is filling up
If you’d like to see “Miss Veedol,” the first airplane to fly non-stop across the Pacific Ocean, this summer, you’re in luck. The Spirit of Wenatchee Project, which owns Miss Veedol, will make the historic Bellanca available at a number of events and fly-ins this summer. June 30 – Wenatchee, Wash. Open House at The […]
80-year-old pilot hits power line
The 80-year-old pilot usually flew with his son and not by himself. On the day of the accident, he intended to fly solo around a lake in his Pietenpol Aircamper and then return to the private landing strip to pick up his son for an additional flight together. He took off from the landing strip […]
Picture of the day: Lancaster fires up
Gord McNulty took this photo May 5, 2018, submitting it with a quick note: “All eyes are on the Canadian Warplane Heritage Avro Lancaster as the four Merlin engines are started, one by one, in a dramatic scene at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario.” “Watching the engines come to life on the […]
The deadly flight risk that’s often ignored
Hypoxia is a killer, robbing our blood of much-needed oxygen — and the resulting effects can be deadly.
One step closer to integrating drones into the National Airspace System
NASA’s remotely-piloted Ikhana aircraft, based at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, successfully flew its first mission in the National Airspace System without a safety chase aircraft on June 12, 2018. This historic flight moves the United States one step closer to normalizing unmanned aircraft operations in the airspace used by commercial […]
Court denies petition to overturn FAA SMO deal
Officials with the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) are calling a court’s decision to deny — on procedural grounds — the association’s petition to overturn a questionable agreement between the FAA and the city of Santa Monica regarding Santa Monica Municipal Airport (SMO) “disappointing.” But NBAA officials note the ruling does not address the merits […]
Germany’s TQ-Systems to debut at AirVenture
SEEFELD, Germany — TQ-Systems, which recently opened a branch office in Chesapeake, Virginia, will introduce its line of avionics at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, July 23-29, 2018. The German-based company will showcase its new KTX2 transponder with ADS-B functionality, along with its KRT2 radio transceiver, which has become the most popular VHF COM in […]