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The ACS standards that are now in effect for both knowledge and practical testing are, in theory, a great advance for the aviation community. The reality is a bit more complicated than that. It’s not easy for me to admit that there’s a downside to the change. For many years, I’ve loudly complained to anyone […]

With the opening of airspace in Cuba and the trip across the Florida Straits an easy one, it may be time to prepare your flight plan

The Space Agency’s new hybrid electric research plane gets an X number and a new name

Inspired by the service of the Tuskegee Airmen, the Legacy Flight Academy flight training program begins July 9 on historic Moton Field in Alabama, providing teenagers with an opportunity to cultivate careers in aviation and, best of all, to start learning how to fly

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 […]