Vintage Air Rally has launched a competition to find teams to win 15 free places on Ushaia2USA, the first rally across South America. The rally will cover 9,000 miles and 19 countries in just 42 days, according to organizers. The six-week flight will begin in Ushuaia, the world’s southern-most airport at the tip of Argentina, […]
Pilatus PC12 flight simulator gets FAA approval
SEATTLE — one-G simulation has received an FAA Letter of Authorization (LOA) for the Swiss12 Advanced Aviation Training Device (AATD), a new training platform based on the Pilatus PC12. Like one-G’s line of other FAA approved AATD’s, the Swiss12 is model specific, emulating the flight characteristics, instrumentation, and cockpit ergonomics of the Pilatus PC12. The […]
Student Pilot Kit updated
The ASA Student Pilot Kit has been updated to include the latest FAA release of the Student Pilot Guide and Airman Certification Standards for Private Pilot Airplane, the Private Pilot Oral Exam Guide, and Visualized Flight Maneuvers Handbook for High Wing Aircraft. Based on the Complete Pilot textbook series by Bob Gardner, this kit provides […]
Student’s soft field takeoff ends up in ditch
The student pilot reported that during a solo soft field takeoff at the airport in Sanford, N.C., the tail of the Diamond DA-20 hit the ground. He lowered the nose, and as the airspeed increased, initiated rotation. After liftoff, the plane drifted to the left of the runway, descended, and hit the bottom of a […]
Highlights from Reno 2017
Mac Little sent us these photos taken at the National Championship Air Races in Reno in 2017.
Pilot Perspectives: Rich Stowell
By DEREK ROBERTS. Visualize for a moment that you’re high above the ground, nose pointed skyward, throttle in one hand, control stick pulled into your lap with the other. As the aircraft slows you peer over the engine cowl while working to maintain a steady altitude. In tandem a muted horn bleats with a blinking […]
An unexpected package
An unexpected package was recently delivered to the FBO at Wautoma Municipal Airport (Y50) in Wisconsin. “Upon opening it, we found a very nice framed “Thank You” collage from someone we provided emergency maintenance support to a couple flying their RV6A to Oshkosh for the 2017 EAA Airventure,” reports Larry Stencel. The couple had flown […]
Racers fly for Hurricane Harvey victims
Hurricane Harvey impacted the Texas coast and the city of Houston in unimaginable ways. The devastation was monumental and the coming together of people from all across the U.S. to lend aid was something even the movies could not have scripted. The 2017 Galveston Island 150 Air Race was scheduled to run Sept. 9, 2017. […]
Pilot shortage boosts enrollment at Embry-Riddle
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — When Peter Wagner’s uncle introduced him to the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds when he was in the fifth grade, he became hooked on learning to fly. Recent stories about the commercial pilot shortage and a tour of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach Campus while he was in high school helped finalize […]