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(Ends February 28, 2014)

Consider this an entry to the “They-said-it-couldn’t-be-done” department. As regular readers know, FAA has been conducting audits with LSA producers… tough, top-to-bottom reviews of every detail in the voluminous ASTM standard set. Last April another company had no less than six FAA personnel in their building for three full days, each armed with a laptop […]

CESSNA’S DISCOVER FLYING I met new business leader for the Skycatcher LSA, Tracy Leopold, at Sun ‘n Fun 2012 where she confirmed the Wichita giant’s support for their lightest aircraft, now being assembled in Independence alongside other Cessna models. As summer began, Tracy’s Skycatcher group amped up their game with a program called Discover Flying […]

Is this the best-yet trainer for learning the ABCs of flight?

Epic LT Price As Flown: : $83,995 Wingspan (ft.): 34.5 Fuel Capacity (gals.): 15 Engine: Rotax 912, 80 hp Useful Load (lbs.): 597 Max Takeoff Weight (lbs.): 1212 Empty Weight (lbs.): 615 Aspect Ratio: 11.8 Prop: 63-inch Pipistrel fixed wood/metal PERFORMANCE Vne (kts.): 135 Vno (kts.): 108 Va (kts.): 86 Best Rate Of Climb (fpm): […]

Life isn’t a destination. It’s a series of checkpoints.

Fundamental failures by pilots still figure in some accidents

Insider glimpses of Pipistrel’s sky-breaking new trainer

A tactical flight from coast-to-coast in a Columbia 400 from above the weather to underneath the overcast

Aborting a flight’€”either on takeoff or in the sky’€” can be one of aviation’s most difficult decisions