Perhaps the FAA is within the bounds of the law as relates to compensation for flight training, but they certainly aren’t honoring the spirit of the last several decades on the same.
Touch & Go
Getting kids airborne
We pilots understand the unique perspective of seeing the world from above, but showing anyone the aerial perspective can be life changing.
The young ones
From Young Eagle to CFI in less than five years.
The fragility of fly-ins
Whatever is to become of Wings Over Republic and the thousands of other smaller aviation events around the country, I hope we all will participate in as many in-person events as we can in 2021 and beyond.
A solid first step
But the Alpha Electro is a trainer, with lots of one-hour flights in its future. These flights aren’t speculative, or some day dreams. They are happening today.
Acronyms – Beware the creep
NASA seeks BVLOS flight-corridors for AAM vehicles. UAS will test ConOps between CERTAIN and USRTC. This AAM HDV will pave the way for more complex routing of larger UAM aircraft.
Could you have to pay $1,000 every time you land in Massachusetts?
The bill seeks to charge personal, corporate and charter rental aircraft $1,000 to land at publicly-owned airports in the Commonwealth.
One step at a time
It is true, a 500-nm range isn’t far compared to existing turbo-prop powered aircraft. I forget, how far was Orville and Wilbur’s first flight? Oh yeah, 120 feet.
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