The ARTEX beacon provides search and rescue the pilot’s ELT emergency distress message and location in less than three minutes.
Pilots
Pilots who volunteer wanted for research study
What motivates pilots to volunteer for humanitarian missions?
Minnesota couple honored with Young Eagles Leadership Award
Since the early 2000s, Dave has flown more than 1,100 Young Eagles.
Waypoint Backpack debuts
The backpack “has room for all your aviation gear but is flexible enough to work as an overnight bag or an everyday laptop case.”
Barriers to entry into the cockpit
Sometimes I wonder if the engineers who design cockpits are aware that pilots aren’t born in the seat. We have to get in there somehow.
FAQs about pandemic extensions on currency, training and medicals
Confused whether recent FAA extensions apply to you?
Tips for that first flight after down time
Have you thought about how you will approach your first flight in months?
Flight sim sessions via cyberspace
From anywhere in the world, instructors will be able to guide and control flight training sessions on Redbird simulators by setting and changing the weather, initiating failures, pausing and unpausing flights, repositioning aircraft, and more.
Questions from the Cockpit: Bizarre expiration dates
As a side note, it amuses me that for one minute twice a year, both the expiring and replacement charts are simultaneously valid.