For the past few months I’ve been shopping for a house. Not a particularly big house. Or an impressive one. Just a house that my family and I can move to where we’ll be dry when it rains, warm when it gets cold, and comfortable when the Florida sun beats down in August. If I […]
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NC airport installs putting green
Workers are putting the finishing touches on a new putting green at North Carolina’s Moore County Airport (KSOP), which serves the golf-crazy village of Pinehurst, N.C. “Pinehurst is the golf capital of America,” said Dan Maples, the golf architect who designed the new putting green. “Go anywhere in the world and mention Pinehurst and people […]
KRPJ now offers Swift Fuels
Rochelle Municipal Airport-Koritz Field (KRPJ) has become the first general aviation airport in Illinois to sell Swift Fuel’s unleaded UL94 aviation gasoline for its piston aircraft customers. “With a solid portion of the traffic at the airport being piston-engine aircraft, we were not only seeking a cleaner, more environmentally-friendly alternative to 100LL, we also needed […]
Online Cessna Flight Training System now available to all flight schools
The latest online edition of the King Schools Cessna Flight Training System is now available to all flight schools. The online curriculum integrates flight and ground studies and ensures that pilots and their instructors know what they have completed, how they are doing, and what’s next, according to company officials. Each course includes video previews […]
Should you lease or own an aircraft?
A free eBook is now available from Chase Aviation for people considering private aviation options for their company or family. Designed for those who may be new to private aviation, the eight-page guide outlines the pros and cons of each option, including cost, maintenance, crew, and other considerations. “Many people have concluded lately that the […]
Loose connection leads to forced landing
The pilot departed on a cross-country flight in his experimental, amateur-built Zenair 601XL, which was equipped with an electronic ignition system. He did not detect any electrical system anomalies before departure, but, about 14 minutes into the flight, the avionics switched to internal battery power. The pilot was unable to troubleshoot the electrical system, and […]
Picture of the Day: Boggy Creek takeoff
Roger Helton, CEO of SuperPetrel USA, sent in this photo, of one of the company’s LSAs preparing to take off from the Boggy Creek Canal in Florida. Would you like to have your photo featured as Picture of the Day? You can submit it via this form. All photos sent in for Picture of the […]
Hurricane Irma can’t stop SUN ’n FUN
As the thousands of visitors walked around the SUN ’n FUN grounds this year, it must have been hard for them to imagine the devastation that Hurricane Irma brought to the airport just eight months ago. The hurricane roared through Lakeland on Sept. 10, 2017, with sustained winds of 100 mph and gusts over 120 […]
Coming soon to FIS-B: Lightning, turbulence, icing and more
By JOHN CROFT, FAA NextGen Outreach Writer/Editor Pilots will soon have access to new weather data in their cockpits over the 978 megahertz (MHz) Universal Access Transceiver link. In June, the FAA will begin broadcasting six new weather products: Lightning strikes, turbulence, icing forecasts, cloud tops, graphical Airmen’s Meteorological Information (AIRMET) and Center Weather Advisories. The […]