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Did the financial news icon get this one right or make the usual mistakes? The venerable Wall Street Journal is a publication that sometimes gets it right with aviation and sometimes gets it really, really wrong. This time the subject was a dicey one: how to think about CEOs who fly light planes. As it […]

Would you be brave enough to try?

A new survey suggests that it’s not just GA pilots who aren’t interested in privatizing ATC.

With the FAA’s adoption of Part 23 reform, a whole new era in general aviation development begins. What does it mean to us as consumers and to the industry? How Does It Work? The new system will work like a more regulated form of what the Light Sport Aircraft regs introduced a decade ago. The […]

Is privatizing ATC a backroom deal in progress? When it comes to what they might mean to aviation, the Trump administration’s policy moves these first few weeks have been hard to read. That said, there are hints that GA could be hit hard with new fees and limitations. The source of the concern lies in […]

New system will gather and distribute onboard weather radar data from aircraft in flight.

There are some intriguing nominees, including a group of real live airplane heroes.

Are we seeing the beginning of a movement to do something about unreasonably high fuel prices?

When news broke that the FAA had struck a deal with the City of Santa Monica to rob the aviation world of historic Santa Monica Airport, we assumed we’d somehow missed previous coverage of the agency working with the SoCal and worldwide community of pilots who’ve been fighting for decades to keep SMO open. We […]

How this affects the BasicMed and Part 23 reforms.