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An Austrian wingsuit pilot set multiple world records in wingsuit flight. Peter Salzmann made the record-breaking flight on Oct. 24 launching from Jungfrau mountain in Switzerland where he flew for 5 minutes and 56 seconds over a distance of 7.77 miles. Red Bull, who teamed up with Salzmann for the flight said the jump was […]
“My fiancé and I were chaperoning my 94-year-old grandparents on a flight to a vacation destination. Grandma walks just fine, but my World War II Marine veteran Grandpa had to use a wheelchair to get to his seat. “There was a hefty crosswind and we landed rather hard (just like I always do in my […]
Bose full-coverage aviation headsets have been an industry standard but the company was stressing its ultra-lightweight in-ear headsets aimed at commercial and bizjet pilots at NBAA-BACE 2024. Bose’s Mike Dodge tells us all about it.
From IFR Magazine reader Chris St. Germain On a nice fall afternoon, I was returning to my home airport after a Missouri Pilots Association board meeting. I heard Kansas City Center give a fellow member who was 10 minutes ahead of me a traffic advisory as we were nearing Kansas City: Center: “Warrior 1234, be […]
The most respondents favored shooting them down near military sites.
There’s good news in the flight training community: Fatality rates are improving. Aviation Safety magazine took a look at the statistics.
From an IFR Magazine reader – Name withheld by request I am based at a non-towered field and some days it is more “uncontrolled” than others. Finishing up my flight review the other day, my instructor and I heard a traffic call that went something like this: “Small City Traffic, Piper Three Six Alpha Charlie […]
Most of us have never issued a Mayday, but a significant number have done it more than once.
There are plenty of Beech Barons flying around with aging analog autopilots and iron gyro flight instruments. Dynon Avionics is setting to change that with a fresh STC for the Dynon digital flight control system with the SkyView HDX Certified avionics suite. In this Aviation Consumer Panel Planner 101 feature, Larry Anglisano takes a look […]
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