by General Aviation News Staff | Apr 24, 2021 | Aviation News, cfi, faa, flying, General Aviation, News, pilot, Wright brothers Master Pilot Award
Nominated by friends and colleagues, Sue said getting the award “was quite a surprise and a wonderful honor. I am just an ordinary pilot doing what pilots do.” Read...
by William E. Dubois | Apr 22, 2021 | 20210415, Airports, Aviation News, flying, General Aviation, Opinion, pilot, Questions from the Cockpit
Are non-towered airports really like the wild, wild west? And should there be more laws governing them? Read...
by General Aviation News Staff | Apr 5, 2021 | 20210401, aviation accidents, Aviation News, flying, General Aviation, Guest Editorial, Opinion, pilot
Get-home-itis was the biggest link to the faulty judgment in this tragedy. It is a powerful force, so powerful that both men aboard were willing to risk single-engine flying over unlit mountainous terrain. In the middle of the night. Without an instrument rating. In...
by General Aviation News Staff | Apr 4, 2021 | 20210401, Aviation News, Feature, flight training, flying, General Aviation, pilot, Piper Cub
Ask any pilot if they remember their first flying lesson and the airplane it occurred in. No doubt — and without hesitation — you will get a detailed and colorful description of this revered event. As with many pilots, I started my flying career in a Piper J-3C Cub....
by General Aviation News Staff | Apr 3, 2021 | 20210401, Aviation News, Feature, flying, General Aviation, pilot
If you call Washington to get the word straight from the horse’s mouth, you might do better next time to call the stable boy. Read...
by Megan Esau | Mar 20, 2021 | Milestones, pilot, solo, Youth & Young Eagles
Congratulations to 16-year-old Justin McDowell, EAA 1174050, who completed his first solo October 31 in a Cessna 172 on floats off of Whitewater Lake in northern Ontario. Although he went into the day understandably nervous, he said once he completed the run up and...
