Flying Magazine
JULY 29, 2025
There is something about being surrounded by pilots and aviation enthusiasts that reenergizes your passion for aviation. In a nutshell, it’s the biggest thing to hit the aviation landscape since 2004, when the sport pilot/light sport aircraft (LSA) rule was published. I was one of those CFIs.
Pilot Institute
JUNE 9, 2025
Holding procedures often leave many prospective IFR pilots in a cold sweat. Pilots use holds for traffic delays, weather, emergencies, planning, or runway changes. Pilot Planning Nobody likes being put under pressure. Suppose an airport has a complex arrival, or the pilot has not planned sufficiently. Is that it?
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Air
JUNE 17, 2025
Understanding a Visual Approach Chart VAC A Practical Guide for Pilots Every pilot remembers the feeling of approaching a familiar aerodrome: a blend of focus and comfort. To navigate safely within the controlled airspace of an aerodrome, Visual Flight Rules (VFR) pilots rely on a vital document: the Visual Approach Chart (VAC).
Vintage Aviation News
MAY 12, 2025
On this day in aviation history, 61 years agoMay 12, 1964American pilot Joan Merriam Smith completed her historic around-the-world flight, becoming the second woman to do so. Equipped with VOR and NDB navigation aids, Smith still faced significant challenges throughout her 27,750-mile journey.
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
Theyre officially called Instrument Approach Procedure (or IAP) charts, but pilots often casually call them approach plates. As a pilot flying this approach, you need to know where to look for the right information at the right time. Non-precision approaches (such as a localizer, VOR, LNAV, or NDB) use a Maltese cross for the FAF.
Flying Magazine
JULY 1, 2025
This phrase was uttered by a DPE who, reviewing the logbook of a private pilot applicant, noted that one of the flights logged as a cross-country came up a little short. For sport pilots and rotorcraft, the distance required for a flight to be logged as cross-country time is 25 nm.
AV Web
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
This followed a controversial accident in which one of the Navys first F-14 fighter pilots, Kara Hultgreen, was killed trying to get aboard a carrier for routine qualifications. The fact that the command pilot of the Blackhawk was a woman may give pretext, whether true or not. The pilot was a woman.
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