The AOPA Foundation’s Air Safety Institute has released a new free online course, “ADS-B for General Aviation: The Basics.” The course, developed in collaboration with the FAA, offers a primer on the fundamentals of ADS-B and will help pilots become familiar with the technology and associated terminology, according to officials. The course includes a downloadable […]
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Fargo Jet Center hosts outdoor movie night
FARGO, N.D. — Fargo Jet Center and Fargo Flight School, along with the Hector International Airport, will host the 3rd Annual Fargo Airport Outdoor Movie Night on Thursday, Sept. 13. The event is designed to provide exposure and generate interest in the local community for its airport and affiliated businesses, according to FBO officials. “Building […]
First solos for VA students
SEATTLE — The folks in the flight training department at Galvin Flying Services, an FBO and authorized flight training provider for Veteran’s Administration (VA) students at Boeing Field, report that the first VA students enrolled in a program offered through Green River Community College (GRCC) have made their first solos. The program allows military veterans […]
Get a free video of your first solo
It’s the flight we remember all our lives and to help you remember it, Nflightcam makes it possible to record your first solo. Better yet, it will produce a professionally-edited HD video of the experience. Free. “The first solo is a once-in-a-lifetime event, and we’d like to help all students preserve it and share it […]
Air Safety Institute releases unmanned aircraft online course
The AOPA Foundation’s Air Safety Institute (ASI) has released a new interactive online course titled “Unmanned Aircraft and the National Airspace System.” The course covers topics including: what unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are and how they operate; their impact on general aviation; how manned and unmanned aircraft can safely share the airspace; and how UAS […]
Capture your flight hands free
Now available is the Fat Gecko Co-Pilot, which allows you to photograph your best flying or document your training hands free by making it easy to mount any camera inside your airplane for an unobstructed view of the cockpit and the open airspace ahead. The retractable telescoping bar fits a variety of cockpit widths ranging […]
Flying above the ordinary
CFII Paul Berge sent along this link to a new video on YouTube from Above The Ordinary, a new website dedicated to getting non-pilots excited about flight enough to get them to drive out to the airport “before our GA airports become ghost towns.”
New high school leverages aviation to the max
Imagine a high school that takes Fridays off and includes flight training as part of the curriculum. That’s reality for some 300 Albuquerque students at the new Southwest Aeronautics, Mathematics & Science Academy (SAMS) located at Double Eagle II Airport, according to a report at AOPA.org. The charter school, located in the building that once […]
Stallion 51 celebrates silver anniversary
As Lee Lauderback taxied to the Warbird Ramp on opening day of this year’s SUN ’n FUN, a group of students immediately began pointing at his P-51 “Crazy Horse” and waving to him. He waved back with a big smile on his face. It’s a reaction he’s used to getting. “Everybody recognizes the P-51,” he […]