What a difference a decade makes: the GA boom in statistics Air Facts Journal General aviation is growing. That simple statement would have been unremarkable to a pilot in the 1960s or 1970s, as surprising as saying the sun rose in the east that day. But for anyone...
What matters for IFR proficiency? The answer is quite simple. Air Facts Journal Unlike riding a bike, flying an airplane is a perishable skill, and instrument skills might have the shortest shelf life of all. The FAA explicitly recognizes this in FAR 61.57: a flight...
Pilots need to be generalists, not specialists Air Facts Journal American education has been obsessed with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) for at least a decade, and the aviation industry has eagerly jumped on the bandwagon. The FAA is leading the...
TAFs are so last century—here are four new tools to try Air Facts Journal If your preflight weather briefing habits don’t change every few years, you probably aren’t curious enough. Occasionally there are major shifts, like the one from Flight Service phone calls to...
Five changes the new MOSAIC rule could bring to aviation Air Facts Journal The word mosaic can be a noun, meaning a beautiful arrangement of glass, or an adjective, as in the tablets that Charlton Heston brought down from the mountain. Whether you view the FAA’s...
What pilots can teach the world about AI Air Facts Journal Three years ago, in the middle of a pandemic, I suggested pilots might have a few things to teach the wider world about risk. Managing weather is certainly not the same as managing messy public health...
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