The leather backpack features pockets for a headset, charts, sunglasses, and more.
Pilot has trouble turning on runway lights at KSQL
Our aircraft was not able to turn the lights on after multiple attempts. Another C172 entered the pattern shortly after initiating the go-around. That aircraft was able to get the lights to come on.
Picture of the Day: Tough little plane
Steve Davis submitted this photo and note: “My beautiful CH750 STOL after landing in the sage. The Thunderbolt IO233 sheared a piston rod, which destroyed the engine…after 285 hrs. No damage to the 750 after the dead stick landing, but got a few minor scratches after trailering it out of the desert. Seven more flight minutes and we would have been over the tall Oregon fir and pines, and the outcome would have been different. Tough little plane!
It takes a crooked tail to fly a straight line
Some airframe designers have built in offset for the vertical fin to help compensate for the phenomena that move an airplane’s direction of flight to the left.
New flight training program using virtual reality cuts time to solo by 30%
“We have had students who finished and soloed in times that we have never seen before,” Embry-Riddle Flight Training Manager Nicole Hester said. “We’re also getting feedback from our instructor pilots that students in the new program can immediately control the airplane and understand radio communications very well.”
Swiss pilots flying around the world to advocate for greener aviation
Flying a Diamond DA50, the two pilots are stopping places where initiatives for sustainable aviation are working, as well as using Sustainable Aviation Fuel and carbon offsets.
Deadline looms for Alaska Airmen’s scholarships
The Alaska Airmen’s Association is taking applications until March 1, 2022, for more than $90,000 in scholarships.
Crash after crosswind landing bends Beech 23
The pilot receiving instruction’s failure to maintain airplane control during landing with a crosswind, which resulted in a bounced landing, and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action, which resulted in a loss of control during the go-around.
Picture of the Day: Moment of touchdown
Larry Brock submitted this photo and note: “Landing at McWhirter Field (KLKR) in Lancaster, South Carolina.”