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The drop-dead date for being ADS-B Out equipped is Jan. 1, 2020. Here’s what you need to know.

New information raises serious questions about the flight and its pilot’s qualifications.

In everyday life we often think of the term “surveillance” as being a bad thing. They’re keeping on eye on us to give us a speeding ticket, and in some places, they might be watching us clandestinely for even more ominous reasons.  In aviation, surveillance methods are decidedly less sinister. Early on, surveillance was a […]

Inadequately prepared and briefed for the approach, the crew of a Learjet 35A crashed on approach to Teterboro.

GPS wasn’t the first long-range nav. It is the best, though.

And why it looks to be the exact opposite of that.

Across     1  The Navy’s spectacular demonstration team, 2 words     6  State where much of the transport is by light aircraft     8  ADF’s counterpart     9  Nurses, abbr.   11  ____ K-Max helicopter   13  Initial setting on some gauges   14  NDB’s counterpart   16  Its cowl flaps give it away   […]

A funny thing happened on our way to quarterly reporting of LSA and Sport Pilot kit market shares. Our first quarterly report in many years should have come about April 1st. It did not. That date came as Sun ‘n Fun was getting underway separated by only one day from the German Aero show. So […]

The proposed model has a few highly desirable features.

A seemingly academic exercise to figure out why radar is required on an odd approach leads to an understanding of how approaches are designed and why that can matter.