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The company co-founder and self-described ’€œchief pilot’€ has announced succession plans for the innovative flight sim maker.

Why the war hero, test pilot and airshow great means so much to us pilots Was Bob Hoover the greatest pilot ever? I don’t know. He surely needs to be in that conversation, but when all is said and done, the result is discovering that the question is unanswerable. Truth is, it’s impossible to say […]

The popular series returns to the Smithsonian Channel on Sunday, November 6.

By the time you read this, there might not be quite as much buzz surrounding the remarkable film by Academy Award®-winning director Clint Eastwood and starring Academy Award®-winning actor Tom Hanks, which chronicles the so-called “Miracle on the Hudson.” Then, again, with award season getting underway, the film might be generating a different kind of […]

The training center, set for a November 1 grand opening, will be located at Scottsdale Airport.

A court ruling puts the principle of FAA control at risk. Why that’s something aviation can’t live with. When the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on a liability suit by a pilot’s widow over an allegedly faulty engine that caused the crash that killed the woman’s husband, they opened a can of worms, angry, […]

I’ll admit up front. The word “special” is overused. Is every Super Bowl special? What about every Jason Bourne movie, every opening at the Met or every Indy 500? Even hardcore enthusiasts of those events would admit that some are way more special than others, and that sometimes there’s a real stinker, one that’s downright […]

The coming NBAA convention is shaping up to be the 500-knot canary in the coal mine, and why it’s likely to give us a good idea of where the industry is headed.

Financing Aviation Stuff is Hard: Here’s What One Company Did About it

Now that the new ACS testing standards are in effect, the good news is, it’s a whole new ballgame. This is a good thing, as the old ballgame, that is, the way the FAA administered tests, was, at best, useless, and, at worst, an abusive bureaucratic exercise that cost test applicants untold millions of dollars […]