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Living With Your Plane directory tops 700 airparks

By Ben Sclair · September 28, 2024 ·

I’m certain there are more, but I’ll need your help to point them out to me.

Do you have what it takes to be an Air Traffic Controller?

By Ben Sclair · September 21, 2024 ·

Michelle Khare, host of Challenge Accepted, attempts to be an Air Traffic Controller.

The Sept. 4, 2024, video “I Tried Air Traffic Control,” offers an interesting view of what happens on the other of the mic.

Enforcement before or after

By Ben Sclair · September 15, 2024 ·

What if we changed the order of FAA oversight of aircraft development and manufacturing to match that of the automobile industry?

They don’t want to be pilots

By Ben Sclair · September 4, 2024 ·

“People that want this are the same people who want self-driving cars,” wrote Brand Neumann. “They don’t want to be pilots, they just want to be passengers.”

A proud passenger

By Ben Sclair · August 26, 2024 ·

It was an absolute joy to watch Brenna as pilot in command. From preflight to shutdown and securing of the aircraft — and everything in between — she was in command.

An airplane for people who don’t fly airplanes

By Ben Sclair · August 12, 2024 ·

Personally, I’ve often wondered how an airplane would be designed if Orville and Wilbur had started their efforts today.

Congratulations Roger

By Ben Sclair · August 10, 2024 ·

Roger Dubbert named 2024 recipient of Spirit of Flight Award.

Roger Dubbert, the demo/test pilot at Zenith Aircraft Company, was named the 2024 recipient of the prestigious Spirit of Flight Award.

Sustaining general aviation

By Ben Sclair · August 7, 2024 ·

Each year the FAA forecasts the number of aircraft they predict will be in the general aviation fleet over the next 20 year period. This table is from the 2024 forecast.

All the data I’ve found seems to point to a General Aviation inventory just over 200,000. And it has been there for a few decades.

A flight review five years in the making

By Ben Sclair · July 29, 2024 ·

Regardless of what life throws at me tomorrow, today I’m current.

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