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Some airline pilots in the southern skies have been ordered by their employers to drive on the right side of the road. Qantas pilots have been told to fly to the right of airways in Indonesia to avoid other airplanes that could be (read: at least once have been) on a head-on collision course, and […]

A recent rule change by the Transportation Security Administration to allow foreign students to be fingerprinted in their home country is good news for U.S. flight schools that were at risk of losing those students, says the National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI). “This is enormous,” said NAFI Executive Director Rusty Sachs. “This new procedure […]

Those of us on the far side of the world may think of New Zealand and Australia as neighbors, but in fact, the two countries are separated by about 1,200 miles of rough and lonely seas. Pilot Murray Belfield, 66, got to experience those miles up close last week when he flew solo in his […]

Symphony Aircraft, based in Three Rivers, Quebec, announced on Tuesday that it has obtained from Transport Canada the type and production certificates for the Symphony 160 two-seater, which were formerly held by a now-defunct German company. With these certificates in hand, the first North American-built Symphony 160 aircraft will be delivered on March 31, the […]

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COLUMNS The Pilot’s Lounge #85: Some Blunt Talk About Aviation Insurance (or, What You Don’t Know About Sublimits Can Hurt You)Insurance — and talking about insurance — can be one of the most tedious things to deal with when the sky is blue and beckoning for winged aviators. Yet even pilots who think they’ve got […]

A California community has come up with a high-flying approach to combating the crumbling infrastructure at its little airport. They’re letting a local Boy Scout put up owl boxes in trees near the runway at Columbia Airport, near Sonora in northern California. It seems gophers have made a mess of the grass strip, digging holes […]

The pilots of a Gulfstream II on its way to pick up former President George Bush last Nov. 22 may have been following the wrong navigation aid as they descended in IMC toward Hobby Airport in Houston. Cockpit voice recordings released last week reveal an exchange between the pilot Milford Dickson and co-pilot Michael DeSalvo […]