The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has selected 15 individuals as winners of the 2016 AOPA Flight Training Scholarships, a program designed to help aviation trainees of all ages earn a pilot certificate. The scholarships are funded by donations to the AOPA Foundation. The 2016 winners, who include seven female aviators, an active-duty Marine, three […]
FAA’s Aviation Weather released as ebook
WINGsReality EDU has released the 2016 edition of the FAA’s Aviation Weather AC 00-6B as an eBook (PDF). The book, priced at $10.95, is an essential text to train pilots on the wide variety of aviation weather topics that are critical to safe flight, according to officials.
New edition of Private Pilot Virtual Test Prep released
The fourth edition of ASA’s Private Pilot Virtual Test Prep has been released. The course now contains discs for both standard DVD and high definition Blu-ray players. Using 3D and animated graphics, special effects, and air-to-air video, the course has been updated to reflect current regulations, procedures, and the Airman Certification Standards (ACS), according to ASA officials. […]
Overloaded plane crashes in mountains
While flying in mountainous terrain to show one of the passengers the Neihart, Montana, area, the pilot entered a canyon that started to narrow as the canyon’s walls rose. The pilot initiated a climb. The Cessna 177 then experienced a downdraft followed by a second downdraft, and he found a low spot in the trees and attempted […]
Picture of the day: A Top Cub’s mini-me
Tom Snow sent in this photo of a Top Cub and its “mini-me” RC model at the Oshkosh Seaplane Base during AirVenture 2016.
Hypoxia, Part 1
El Paso to Phoenix, 11:30 p.m., cruising at 12,000, we could barely hear the radio calls from all the laughter in the cockpit. It was the second leg of three, after taking delivery of our newly acquired Twin Comanche in Dallas. The winds aloft were warmer than normal. We were positively giddy that neither the […]
People and planes… that’s why
When I think about why we produce General Aviation News, it boils down to two things: People and planes. It’s really that simple. Sure, it can get more complex from time to time, but strip away all the doo-dads and it quickly returns to a simple state: People and planes. In keeping with that theme, I […]
Beechcraft G58 vs. Diamond DA62
I earned my multi-engine rating in a 1973 Beechcraft Baron E55 and flew a few hundred hours in it. For that reason, if I see a Baron G58 on a ramp – or at a fly-in – I have to go look. Admittedly, I have a soft spot for that particular line of twins. The room, comfort and […]
Blackhawk launches new engine upgrade program for King Air 350
WACO, Texas — Blackhawk Modifications is developing a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) that will allow the installation and operation of the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67A engine to replace the existing PT6A-60A engines on the King Air 350 model. The Blackhawk program, called the XP67A Engine+ Upgrade, is currently installed on Blackhawk’s King Air 350 that will be […]