The ability to divert safely, meaning to a suitable airport with acceptable weather and sufficient fuel is a skill you will be demonstrating during your pilot career, both in training and on a check ride.
Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 20 years and a CFI for more than 18 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
Authority and responsibility for the operation and safety of the flight means you’re the one responsible for the passenger safety briefing.
From calculating reciprocal course to stabilized descents, here’s a primer of basic mathematics pilots need to know.
Complacency can often get the best of you, so do your best to avoid it.
If it feels like the many requirements for your check ride aren’t lining up, you are not alone.
Whether it’s headsets, tools, or teaching supplies, always get permission first and make sure to give them back.
The busier an airport gets the more likely it is that noise abatement procedures will be created.
We’re polishing up our latest print edition, for December/January 2023/24, Issue 944, and we want to hear your thoughts about the cover.
A trip to Copalis State (S16), the Lower 48’s only public beach airport, becomes a relaxing Labor Day outing.
We’re finalizing our latest print edition, for November 2023, Issue 943, and we want to hear your thoughts about the cover.
Travel to Kitty Hawk for a Microsoft Flight Simulator reenactment of the historic first flight of the 1903 Wright Flyer.
China’s Nanchang CJ-6A has developed a following of enthusiasts across the globe thanks to its unique looks, modest operating costs, and aerobatic capability.
Former NASA astronaut Ken Mattingly II, best known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 return to Earth safely in 1970, has died at 87.
Sporty’s has established a partnership with Leadership In Flight Training (LIFT) Academy, a training program owned by Republic Airways.
The company says the spacecraft’s first flight test, which ended in flames, ‘provided numerous lessons learned.’
AOPA began flight testing in its AOPA Baron of unleaded, high-octane avgas. The project launched this week with the introduction of GAMI’s G100UL during initial flights in Oklahoma.