FAA Tries To Ruin Flying: Congress Steps In, Again. What The Heck Is Going On?
Sometimes we need to bypass the FAA. It’s a bad system, but this time, we needed to do it in the worst way.
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Sometimes we need to bypass the FAA. It’s a bad system, but this time, we needed to do it in the worst way.
It can be easy to forget how lucky we are to be flyers. Here are 10 reminders.
With a handful of exciting new programs, planes and products, machines are beginning to take over the duties and, in some cases, the jobs of pilots.
The attacks on a cloudless blue-sky day rocked us to our core.
As electrics worm their way into our world, we’ll begin to see a change in how these aircraft are received by the old-school flyers almost all of us still are.
After a year off, and conducted under still-trying circumstances, this year’s AirVenture was like none other, in ways both good and, let’s be honest, not so good.
The media loves a scary story, and all the better when it’s about aviation. In this case, the facts don’t bear out such an interpretation.
The term isn’t meaningless, but close to it. Why that’s a good thing.
Drinking and piloting a plane is illegal and stupid because it (obviously) puts everyone at risk. Recent incidents have shown that drinking for those folks in the passenger cabin might be just as bad an idea.
The rule might have been adopted in good faith, but the actuality could be a disaster for pilots and operators.