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The NTSB puts the focus on midairs, but does it have the solution to the problem?

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 […]

Perspective+: Brand-new Garmin glass for 2017

We’ve been talking about how to survive our addiction to flying for a long time now, since the beginning of aviation, in fact. We’ve called it Airsense, Headwork, Judgment, Threat and Error Management, and other names not fit to print, but now we have a relatively new label for it: Risk Management. As the FAA […]

With a second door and an entirely new interior feel, the fastest production piston single on the planet feels like a whole new plane

Everyone needs a wake-up call now and then

I hope you enjoyed a great July 4th holiday weekend. It was a beautiful time for flying in Florida and I had a special treat I’d like to share with you. Thanks to EAA’s spectacularly successful AirVenture Oshkosh 2015 program, nearly two million young Americans have had the chance to go aloft with a capable […]

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An uncompromising motorglider is set to soar

On Swiss National Day, Pilatus Aircraft officially unveiled its first ever PC-24 prototype.