The final rule affects pilots, flight instructors, and aircraft owners, especially those operating limited, experimental, and primary category aircraft.
Flight Training
Second generation ICARUS focuses on weather decision making for pilots
The Instrument Conditions Awareness Recognition and Understanding System (ICARUS) is a Smart View Limiting Device that allows CFIs to dial in simulated poor visibility for scenario-based weather training, company officials explain.
Flight Sim Coach debuts Private Pilot Prep System
Flight Sim Coach unveiled its Private Pilot Prep System, which combines instruction with “modern simulation technology to help students maximize the effectiveness of their actual flight training hours,” according to company officials.
Picking pilots: Losing ground in finding the right stuff
Now anyone can be a pilot, even those we may not want.
First solo on a Sunday
Watching Ethan solo his 1946 Champ 7AC was a joy — so much hard work had gone into this moment that you couldn’t help but break into a smile.
New pilot makes history in Mississippi
When Cason Brinkley, 16, soloed for the first time, he made history, becoming the youngest African American to solo an airplane in Mississippi.
Delta State University awarded $1 million federal grant to acquire flight sim
The Air Tractor 802 flight simulator will be the first of its kind and will support DSU’s Agricultural Aircraft Operations Career Pathway (AAOCP) program, providing flight training for future aerial applicators and firefighters.
All In Aviation acquires Lone Mountain Aviation
All In Aviation, a flight school, aircraft rental, and sales business, has acquired its maintenance partner, Lone Mountain Aviation, Nevada’s largest general aviation FAA Part 145 certified repair station.
Time-building flight ends with deployment of ballistic parachute
The pilots’ inadequate preflight fuel planning and improper in-flight fuel management, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion and subsequent deployment of the ballistic parachute recovery system.