Before every flight, pilots walk around their aircraft... a ritual the Wright Brothers created. Dan Patterson takes you ...
A pre-solo flight student struggled with managing checklists and situational awareness during landings, leading to unsafe practices and instructor interventions. Using the GUMPS mnemonic and a flow ...
If you’re a frequent flier, you may barely pay attention to the routine stages of flight. Still, you know the basics: After takeoff, the airplane climbs for the first 15 to 20 minutes before reaching ...
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How to Winterize Your Flying

Keep a careful eye on outside temperature, and use pitot heat, propeller heat, and carburetor heat judiciously. You often can ...
While passenger anxieties may be experiencing an uptick, one new design aboard a small aircraft is attempting to change the future of flying when it comes to safety. And it comes with just the push of ...
In this day and age of high-tech autonomous drones and aircraft, an International Space Station (ISS) that circles the planet every 90 minutes and CEOs that board private rocket ships on the regular, ...