“I shouldn’t have let the plane owner and mechanic pressure me into going when we suspected that the engine driven pump was ‘weak.’ Ironically, the owner has the fuel pump sitting in his house so he knew it was having problems and failed to tell me before I flew five hours over water outside of gliding distance of land.”
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Wings Over North Georgia returns to Rome
Wings Over Georgia returns as a drive-in event, with attendance topping 30,000 during Halloween weekend.
Phase One testing of bullet-shaped airplane concludes
After 55 successful test flights, Otto Aviation has concluded its Phase One testing of the Celera 500L, which is expected to be available by 2025.
Picture of the Day: Engine off
Chris Huber submitted this photo and note: “Over Crater Lake.”
Lawmakers express concern about 5G’s impact on aviation safety
“The FCC’s and the telecom industry’s approach of ‘deploy now, fix later’ is anathema to the strong safety culture we have created and nourished in aviation over the last 20 years. In aviation, we never roll the dice with safety. We never run headlong into a possible hazard to the safety of flight without a full and complete assessment and mitigation of those risks.”
An increasingly dangerous traffic pattern
“It seems like the traffic pattern at LMO has become increasingly dangerous. Many instructors have had near misses with other pilots not making calls or entering the pattern however they wish.”
Misconceptions and outright lies we tell ourselves
We all have misconceptions in life. And some of us lie to ourselves rather than accept the truth for what it is. In the aviation world this same human tendency to discard accepted, proven knowledge in favor of a deeply held but poorly understood personal belief can lead to disaster.
The insurance woes of older pilots
A new survey finds that while pilots over 70 fly more hours and have more ratings than younger pilots, the insurance industry is raising their premiums — or canceling their insurance coverage — based only on age.
Extreme frequency congestion leads to near miss
Communication in the area was encumbered by heavy usage and several radio calls we made were blocked due to other transmissions, leading to confusion over aircraft positions at the airport we were using.