After a lifelong fascination with aviation, Ted Luebbers finds a connection with a long-forgotten Pietenpol project.
Are you flying to Oshkosh?
Make sure you are prepared to fly into the big show. Read the NOTAM, practice your flying skills, and pick up some tips during two webinars the Experimental Aircraft Association is hosting in late June.
Fargo Air Museum launches flight simulator lab
Featuring two sets of controls, a yoke and joystick, with the option of virtual reality, pilots and aspiring aviators will be able to take to the sky virtually anywhere in the world. Individuals are able to choose from more than 30 aircraft to fly. Flights can be adjusted to depart and land in various destinations all while the user experiences real-time weather and air traffic conditions.
Oklahoma flying club offers private pilot scholarship
Named in honor of one of the flying club’s founders, the scholarship will cover all costs for a private pilot certificate for a high school student or young adult.
Improper fuel management and unsuitable terrain for takeoff bad combination
The pilot’s selection of unsuitable terrain for takeoff, which resulted a nose-over. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s improper in-flight fuel management, which resulted in the precautionary landing on unsuitable terrain.
Picture of the Day: She’s waiting to fly
Joe Miller submitted this photo and note: “The sun coming up over KFLX in Fallon, Nevada, as I arrived for today’s lesson in this awesome 1975 Cessna 172. She loves flying as much as I love learning how to fly her.”
Any old airplane will do
Here’s a bit of a secret you may not have picked up on in all the years I’ve been writing for General Aviation News. I rarely write about aircraft. Sure, it seems like I do, but I don’t. Not really. Rather, I’m far more fascinated with the people I meet, the experiences that come my way, and the happy accidents that stick in my memory so well.
Alaska remains FAA’s proving ground for aviation safety innovations
With its challenging weather and environment, Alaska is where so many of general aviation’s safety innovations are born, including weather cameras, ADS-B, and a new technology called VWOS.
Another first in flight for Dayton
Four students became the first to earn bachelor degrees centered around aviation at a community college in Dayton, Ohio.