Flying Magazine
JULY 29, 2025
I am writing this on the airliner on the way home from a week at EAA AirVenture, the annual migration thousands make each year to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. For those who wanted to turn wrenches or have a career in the cockpit, there were airlines, colleges, and universities in attendance as well.
Air
JUNE 17, 2025
VOR , NDB). Discover how our Commercial Pilot and Airline Transport Pilot Licence Course can be the start of your career. Holding patterns: Depicts the specific circuits where an aircraft must orbit if instructed to hold by air traffic control. The first step into the cockpit begins today.
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AV Web
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
Years ago, a friend who was then a training captain at a major airline, showed me a video of a pilot totally cratering an NDB approach. SecDef Hegseths avowed opposition to women in combat may mean this wont get a fair hearing, but just more political posturing. It was laughably incompetent for someone with an ATP.
Air Facts
JULY 23, 2025
Revenge at 4,000 Feet Air Facts Journal The 19th of November, 1973, was cold and rainy at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where I was employed as a 23-year-old copilot with Skyway Airlines. The Skyway Airlines’ Beech 18s flown by the author in this story. By day’s end, 42 “sons of b **s” had been scared off Skyway Airlines for good.
Fear of Landing
JANUARY 3, 2025
On the 25th of December 2024, Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8243, a scheduled passenger flight from Baku, Azerbaijan to Grozny, Russia, crashed on approach to Aktau International Airport in Kazakhstan with 62 passengers and five crew on board. The flight crew requested an NDB approach to Grozny and were cleared for approach to runway 26.
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