RADIANT Technology has released its first iOS App for iPhone/iPad. Now available in the Apple App Store for $19.99, the Precision Altimeter app provides a set of pressure-based backup instruments for any pilot, including Altimeter and Vertical Speed (VSI). Every iPhone from the 6 up has pressure capability built in, which you can take advantage with […]
Pilots
New app helps with pre-flight calculations
A new app helps pilots perform all required pre-flight calculations, including calculations for takeoff and landing distances and speeds, climb rate, fuel use, weight and balance, emergency speeds, and more. The Iduna FLY App also presents current and possible future weather and wind conditions (including alternate destination runway data) graphically, to ensure that the pilot’s […]
Picture of the day: The last sunset of 2017
Mark Wiley sent in this photo, explaining: “The last sunset of 2017. Taken on approach to St. Pete, Florida.”
Picture of the day: A snowy takeoff
Ron Perkins sent in this photo of his friend “taking off after a good snow.”
Pictures of the day: Much to be thankful for
Esta-Ann Elliott sent in these photos, taken just before a flight in the family’s Piper Arrow departing from Alexandria Field in Pittstown, N.J. She notes that her husband, Jack, is still climbing into the Arrow at the age of 93.
Zenith workshops returns to Sebring Expo
Zenith Aircraft Company is once again bringing its two-day, hands-on kit aircraft building workshop to the 2018 Sebring U.S. Sport Aviation Expo. The Expo, held at Sebring Regional Airport in Florida, is slated for Jan. 24-27. “The two-day hands-on workshop is an excellent way to learn all about building your own kit aircraft, and to […]
Applications now open for LadiesLoveTaildraggers scholarships
Applications are now being accepted for the 2018 LadiesLoveTaildraggers’ scholarships. A variety of scholarships are offered, and for the first time, all flight training will be performed by women CFIs or women-owned flight schools, according to association officials. The mission of LadiesLoveTaildraggers is to encourage more women to fly tailwheel aircraft, officials noted, adding they […]
Flying while grounded
By GRANT BOYD Whether we like it or not, sometimes we can’t fly all the times we would like to. Whether it be for weather, money, maintenance — or who knows what — sometimes you are grounded. Just because you can’t take to the sky doesn’t mean you can’t “fly.” Thankfully, “flying” while grounded is […]
The importance of a good couch
In the back of my hangar sits the skeleton of a 1949 Piper PA-16 Clipper. It hasn’t flown in many years. That’s kind of sad. Hopefully, somebody will take on the task of restoring it to its former glory one day and it will become airborne again. I can only hope. In front of the […]