Dispatch from KSPA, Spartanburg, South Carolina: I pull the wicked-looking black helmet over my head and cinch the chinstrap down tight. Next comes the neck guard, a thick foam collar that encircles my neck below the helmet. I step down into the cockpit and settle in, pulling the dual shoulder straps across my chest and snapping […]
The cost of $3,200
United Airlines has had a rough few weeks. And yet, the days of overbooked commercial flights are likely here to stay. So what’s an airline to do? When crew must get from A to B and all the seats are filled with paying passengers, the options are often limited. United Airlines recently offered four passengers […]
PlaneLogiX releases Aircraft Profiles Status Sheet
PlaneLogiX has released its Aircraft Profiles Status Sheet, which is included with every PlaneLogiX subscription. According to company officials, this is possibly the biggest single feature in the PlaneLogiX offering. Aircraft Profiles allow you to track and “roll” inspections or recurring part replacements without the need for generating maintenance records in the system, but with the […]
Applications available for Karen Johnson Solo Scholarship
The Ninety-Nines will award a $3,000 Karen Johnson Solo Scholarship to a young woman between the ages of 16 and 20 who wants to learn to fly. The scholarship provides with financial support for flight training through first solo and beyond. In addition, the winner will receive a King School flight training course to prepare for […]
New edition of Flying the SOCATA Trinidad, Tobago and Tampico released
An expanded second edition of “Flying the SOCATA Trinidad, Tobago and Tampico” has just been released. The second edition comes five years after the original release. Many pilots have seen the SOCATA “Caribbean Series” of planes over the years and remember them for their gull-wing doors and European styling, according to author William Bennett. “This […]
Turbulence contributes to Lightning crash
The pilot stated that during an approach to landing in gusty crosswind conditions at the airport in West Plains, Missouri, the Arion Lightning LS-1 encountered turbulence about 10 feet above the runway and suddenly lost altitude. The plane landed hard, and collapsed the nose landing gear, then exited the right side of the runway and collapsed the […]
A stack of Stearmans
Annemarie Bain sent us this photo of John Bianco in his Stearman doing a fly-over at Bayport Aerodrome (23N) in New York. She explains it is one photo made up of several frames called image stacking.
Can you fly IFR in an LSA?
Think about IFR in an LSA this way: Can you fly IFR in a homebuilt aircraft? Can you do so in a Cessna 172?
Fully manufactured LSA and IFR
ASTM’s F37 committee is composed of people with technical knowledge who achieved a challenging task: Start with a blank sheet of paper and create aircraft standards for the Light-Sport Aircraft (LSA) sector. That this group did so in just a few years on the leanest of budgets is a credit to their dedication. These volunteers from […]