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CubCrafters has never made an aircraft powered by a Rotax engine. Images accompanying this article portray their very first example using the 9-series engine in a model intended for production. Most of their factory pilots or dealers have never flown behind a Rotax. Yet Carbon Cub UL is also the first aircraft in the world […]

It’s rare to find a pilot these days who doesn’t rely on a digital service for their flight planning, management, or debriefing. Often that means using multiple platforms—until now.  ForeFlight, a Boeing Company, has announced its acquisition of CloudAhoy, a debriefing software provider. According to a post on the ForeFlight blog, the acquisition was completed […]

During 2023, in only three months, I’ve lost count how many airframe producers have told me a story that goes something like this… “We (some manufacturer) offer two 100-horsepower choices: a Rotax 912ULS (carbureted) and 912iS (fuel injected), plus the new 141-horsepower 915iS (fuel injected, intercooled). Yet everyone is ordering the 915.” More power always […]

In the film Back to the Future II, the antagonist Biff Tannen steals a sports almanac containing scores from every major sporting event over a 50-year time span and delivers it to his younger self via a time machine. Armed with this knowledge from the future, his younger self then utilizes the almanac to gamble, […]

Welcome to a new era for Plane & Pilot.  We are excited to embark on reimagining what Plane & Pilot will be in the future. The brand has a storied history and we want to honor that legacy so Plane & Pilot can live on for another 50 years.  Our goal is to make Plane […]

An Airbus A320-200, operated by Viva AeroBus, experienced a catastrophic engine failure on Tuesday during climbout from Guadalajara’s runway 10 with the intended destination of Los Angeles. Video of the incident was posted on social media which showed flames and sparks streaking from the rear of the right engine, proceeded by a loud bang as […]

The largest pilot-member organization has published a guide to assist FBOs, flight schools and other businesses in getting back into the air after a pandemic-imposed timeout.

How we pilots should tweak our risk assessment practices, if at all, when flying in these days of the coronavirus pandemic.

Arguably the coolest event aviation or otherwise on the planet, the annual High Sierra Fly-In will be impossible to cancel, or to hold.

The organization’s decision to call off the world’s biggest fly-in wasn’t an easy one, and its reasons for doing so were more complex than most might imagine.