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Letter of the Week:The Rest of the Story The new rest rules do not cover cargo flights, nor do they cover foreign flights in U.S. airspace. But the basics should be that professional pilots take care of their bodies, including getting adequate rest. Carriers give crew regulated rest periods, but unless the FAA wants the […]

You are on approach in busy airspace with an even busier cockpit…you are changing frequencies, receiving vectors, looking for traffic. You are well into the descent phase. As you flip through your kneeboard to get ready for the final phases of flight, you instinc- tively start looking for the runway. You see one in front […]

It might be winter for much of the U.S., but at Eagle Roost Airpark in Aguila, Ariz., it’s predicted to be 77 degrees and sunny this weekend — nice weather for browsing at a fly-in flea market. The Saturday event, one of the many that pilots can find via the free SocialFlightwebsite or app, will […]

Letter of the Week:Volunteer Controllers? My response to the letter from Tom Lanhamand his effort to justify the FAA charges for air traffic controllers at aviation conventions: Have any of you FAA controllers ever thought about volunteering? I was always under the impression that these guys were aviation enthusiasts and were volunteering, just like the […]

It was the late 1980s, and a Pan Am 727 was holding at Berlin Tegel. Another Pan Am 727 made a less than graceful arrival, clouds of smoke from the tires, clouds of smoke from the reversers, horizontal stab shaking alarmingly, and the whole thing bouncing around until it safely vacated the runway. The Holding […]

For any pilot wanting or needing the ATP certificate, the window is about to slam shut on earning that rating at an affordable price. Beginning in August, a new FAR kicks in requiring sharply higher flight experience and training for any pilots who plan to use the ATP in Part 121 operations. Bottom line: The […]

Winter may be doing its best to deal a one-two punch, but pilots are fighting back with fly ins this weekend. Our weekly survey of SocialFlight found events throughout the country, from the very cold climes to delightfully temperate. Our eyes were first drawn to an interesting one on our northern border: the 67th annual […]

Letter of the Week:The Real Costs of the Super Bowl? Regarding the story about the NFL not being charged for air traffic services for the Super Bowl: There is a lack of understanding of the difference in cost of supporting AirVenture and the Super Bowl. I am a retired controller who worked EAA three times […]

SocialFlight has again presented us with a wide array of breakfast, lunch and recurrent training fly ins this weekend. Pilots can’t beat the deal at the Breakfast Fly In at Logan-Cache Airport, Logan, Utah. The sponsors are hosting a free pancake, egg, sausage and fruit breakfast from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. […]

During WWII, tens of thousands of Americans were either taught to fly by the U.S. military or were exposed to the routine use of air transport to cover long distances quickly. Aircraft manufacturers naturally assumed this fertile crop of newly released soldiers, armed with the recently enacted G.I. Bill of Rights, would generate a sales […]