By IVY McIVER. Taking someone for their first flight in a small aircraft is always rewarding, but making the flight to an airport I’ve never visited makes the reward even sweeter. I had the chance to fly two of my new co-workers to a private airstrip on a golf course in Wisconsin, and it was […]
The best hour in my logbook
What’s your favorite flight? Air Facts blogger John Zimmerman tackles that question after hearing “It was the best hour in my logbook” from a very experienced pilot he knows, after telling the moving story of the last flight he took with his father, just weeks before his death. “I thought it was a wonderful way to emphasize just how powerful […]
How to prevent prop blur in your GoPro camera videos
There’s nothing more annoying than going on a scenic flight in your airplane and watching the footage afterward, only to see the black “magic marker” streaks scraping across the monitor. That darn prop blur has messed things up again. The guys at HDPilot tackle that problem in a recent article that includes lots of video […]
Carter winds down flight tests, turns to production planning
WICHITA FALLS, Texas — Carter Aviation Technologies (Carter) is ramping down its developmental flight test program and refocusing on moving the CarterCopter into production.“This is a tough transition for me. I’m an engineer at heart so continuing to expand the envelope, fine tune the technology, break additional records and the like make me smile every day,” […]
University plans RPA flight tests the first week of June
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi has scheduled test flights for the week of June 1 from the Port Mansfield airport through the university’s Lone Star Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center. A launch in the dark and shoreline flights that match on-the-ground surveying are planned for this round of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), or drone, […]
Air race team awards scholarship
The Racing Aces team, Dianna Stanger and Joyce Wilson, who won the 2014 Air Race Classic, awarded a $2,500 scholarship at the Southeast Texas Fly-In to Yasmina Platt, Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association (AOPA) Regional Manager of the Central Southwest Region. Yasmina was born in the Canary Islands, Spain. Raised in Zaragoza, she has called […]
DuPage Airport named 2015 Illinois Reliever Airport of the Year
WEST CHICAGO, Ill. – The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) Division of Aeronautics has chosen DuPage Airport as the 2015 Illinois Reliever Airport of the Year. The award, which is presented to an airport serving general and corporate aviation needs in a large metropolitan area like Chicago, comes on the heels of the successful completion […]
Simulated emergency results in real accident
The pilot of the Beech Musketeer was undergoing a flight review at the airport in La Grande, Ore. There was a passenger in the back seat. As the airplane overflew the airport, the CFI simulated an engine failure by pulling the throttle to idle. The pilot initiated a spiral descent to traffic pattern altitude and […]
Picture of the day: If you fly the backcountry…
Jim Hoddenbach, one of the founders of Disciples of Flight, sent in this photo, explaining: “If you fly the backcounty, you need a Cub.” The location is Black Mountain airstrip in Utah, the plane is a Super Cub, built from a kit, he added.