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The rule comes after years of lobbying by general aviation groups to broaden an FAA definition that left homebuilders in the cold.

The biggest threat to the popular legislation is a proposal to privatize air traffic control backed by a Congressman with a personal relationship with an airline lobbyist. Here we go again, trying to get a pilot’s medical certification proposal past the finish line. Whether it happens or not, kudos to the U.S. Senate, which earlier […]

World champion surfer Kelly Slater took his first flight lessons in the Quest Kodiak turboprop, ferrying some of the world’s top surfers (and his investors) to the secret opening of his man-made Surf Ranch wave pool in Central California.

The new Plane & Pilot stands for a lot of things the old brand did, including our embrace of low-and-slow and alternative forms of committing aviation. Beyond that, we stand for a few more beliefs that bear comment, some of which are right in line with what P&P has always believed and shouted that fact […]

When you’re doing what you love, discipline comes easy

The scene is in a thousand movies. A clear night sky and a glass-calm ocean. A million brilliant stars, every one of them reflected by water. The horizon is difficult to find. Then some ship enters the scene, slowly, and the water is swirled in its wake, troubled just enough to mark the border between […]

A Cessna 340 crashed while executing a missed approach in bad weather. There might have been more to the crash than the NTSB discovered.

Flying regional jets for a living won’t make you as poor as it used to

We go flying in the brand-new plane from CubCrafters

The new Part 23-certified plane is ready to buy and fly