The 2023 edition reflects the latest aviation industry procedures, equipment, techniques, regulations, and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommendations and is a key reference in the FAA Airman Certification Standards (ACS), according to ASA officials, who note that changes include updates to drugs and the impact on flight, non-towered airport operations, and attitude indicator pitch and bank limitations.
Flight Training
Questions from the Cockpit: Should there be a biennial driving review?
My mother, a student pilot, asked: What do you think of requiring drivers to get a biennial driving review?
Cancer survivors take to the skies over Montana
Summit Aviation’s annual Cancer Survivor Flight Camp returns for its ninth year, taking off July 17, 2023, and lasting throughout the week. For five days, four campers will get to fly — and fly — a Diamond.
AV8 Prep launches online courses geared to private pilots
AV8 Prep has launched its new online learning platform, with courses for the private pilot certificate, instrument rating, commercial certificate, Certified Flight Instructor, and drone certificate.
Human Factors: A distant fallout
After a two-year investigation by the NTSB, investigators still don’t really know what caused a July 2021 crash in Alaska that killed two pilots. Still, is there anything we can learn from this crash?
ATP orders 40 Cessna Skyhawks
Which expands to 95 the number of Skyhawks ATP has on order.
Is it time to get your instrument rating?
Even if you don’t ever need to fly through a layer of clouds because you live in the sunny southwest where there’s nary a cloud in the sky, the training to become an instrument-rated pilot will improve your flying. Period.
Flight school orders 30 Tecnam aircraft
Kansas-based Kilo Charlie Aviation has placed an order for 30 Tecnam aircraft to be delivered over the next two years. Phase I of the order includes three twin-engine P2006Ts and 12 single-engine P-Mentors. Delivery of all Phase I aircraft should be complete by the second quarter of 2024 according to Tecnam officials. Phase II deliveries […]
The pitfalls of flying at night
“Night flying introduces challenges that are reflected in the data,” said Robert Geske, AOPA Air Safety Institute manager of aviation safety analysis. “More than one-quarter of fatal night flying accidents occurred because of spatial disorientation, a condition that can bring about loss of control in flight — the leading cause of all night flying accidents.”