This is part three in a series of stories about flying to Alaska. Read about Bill’s trip planning, Flying to Alaska and Return from Fairbanks. It took four days flying from South Carolina to reach Fort Nelson, British Columbia, 283 miles up the Alaska Highway from its starting point at Dawson Creek. And more than 1,100 road miles — […]
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OpenAirplane raises funding
CHICAGO – OpenAirplane, an online service that connects pilots to planes across the U.S. much like a rental car company, has secured $500,000 in seed funding from several investors in Chicago and abroad. The funds will help OpenAirplane hire more developers, accelerate growth, and build new products. “I am tremendously excited about my investment in OpenAirplane. […]
One pilot’s Alaska trip prep plan
This is part one in a series of stories about flying to Alaska. Read about Bill’s Flying to Alaska, Flying the Alaska Highway and Return from Fairbanks. Recently a friend asked me to help him prepare for a flying trip to Alaska. I said I would, using notes taken from my own 3,500-mile journey in a Cessna 172 from […]
Tip: Daily drills pay off
Paul Tomascik, a CFI from Ottawa, Ontario in Canada, shares this idea: “One of the easiest and most effective ways to practice system transitions in a plane that you are unfamiliar with or one that you’re rusty in is to take a picture of the panel with your iPad and chair fly with the screen-shot […]
New features for TBM 900 unveiled
The 2016 version of Daher’s TBM 900, unveiled at this week’s Singapore Airshow, incorporates improvements to enhance flight envelope protection, improve warning identification and facilitate flight planning. These enhancements were introduced with Garmin’s new software release for the G1000 V15 avionics suite — which is the TBM 900’s all-glass cockpit configuration, company officials noted. Enhancements include: […]
When I grow up, I want to be a….
Last week I attended a Focus on Education Breakfast held in the student center at Polk State College’s main campus in Winter Haven, Florida. On hand were members of the school board, administrators from the county’s school system, teachers, principals, politicians, community activists, and a smattering of students. The whole crew was gathered for a dual […]
School accredited for avionics, drone programs
CINCINNATI — Flamingo Air’s Airline Ground Schools has been awarded accreditation for its Avionics and Drone Maintenance and Operations programs. The accreditation is given by ASTM International and the National Center for Aerospace & Transportation Technologies (NCATT). Airline Ground Schools has applied its program of distance learning combined with traditional classroom training to its avionics courses, […]
Why do you fly?
By GRANT BOYD Why do you fly? If you have never been asked this, or asked yourself it, then you have quite a question to tackle. I am sure that many pilots reasons are similar, but all of these aside, we can unanimously agree that flying is pretty cool. I was exposed to aviation as […]
Tip: Keep training consistent
Dan Vandermeer submits this “simple tip to help keep flight training consistent: I advise student pilots to routinely schedule three lessons ahead. The most common reasons training sessions are cancelled are: The student or CFI has a last minute schedule conflict; The weather is not good; The aircraft has a mechanical/avionics problem. Just a few […]