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According to FAR 61.57 (c), instrument currency means the need to execute six approaches, intercept and track courses, and perform a hold within the last six calendar months. If that requirement is not met, you have another six months to fly with a safety pilot and complete the requirements. There is no requirement that those […]
Search crews have found the wreckage of a de Havilland Twin Otter and the bodies of 23 people on board in the mountainous terrain of central Nepal. The airplane, operated by Tara Air, departed at 7:50 a.m. local time Wednesday on a route betweenPokhara and Jomsom. The flight was scheduled to be less than 20 […]
If it seems that airline seats are getting narrower, while the average size of passengers gets wider, Airbus has an idea that could reverse that trend — replace at least some of those seat rows with benches. Airbus has filed a patent (PDF) for bench seats, which could accommodate not only larger-than-average passengers but also […]
On a training flight between Terre Haute, Indiana and Indianapolis, Indiana, I heard the following exchange between Hulman (Terre Haute) Approach and a Cessna 172 requesting flight following: N12345:“Are you enjoying your Saturday?” Hulman Approach:“Negative. I’m at work.” John Sutherland
Perhaps one of the most popular flight schools in the U.S. to earn a single-engine seaplane rating, Jack Brown’s Seaplane Base in Winter Haven, Florida, has trained nearly 20,000 pilots. To find out what the draw is all about, Aviation Consumer editor Larry Anglisano recently enrolled in Brown’s $1,400 SES course and had his cameras […]
A former Alaska Airlines captain has pleaded not guilty to flying while under the influence of alcohol after appearing in a federal court in Los Angeles last week. David Arntson, 60, is alleged to have flown two legs between California and Oregon in 2014 while well over the blood alcohol limits for driving and flying. […]
The controversial FAA reauthorization bill that would create a private air traffic control organization will not be introduced in the full House this week as originally scheduled, according to Politico. Quoting unnamed sources, the Washington political publication says it was told by a “leadership aide” that the House Transportation Committee, which approved an amended version […]
Every pilot I know has a sense of adventure. That’s the starting point for why she or he learned to fly. Pilot certificate in hand, the quest for adventure continues in many ways—some go for advanced ratings; others seek different aircraft to fly; others explore aerobatics or remote airstrips. A byproduct of the process of […]
A Missouri man has been sent to prison for six and a half years, without chance of parole, for trying to shoot down an aerial application aircraft flying near his home. According to KOAM TV, David Leroy Dickenson, 39, of Miller, Missouri, was handed the sentence by U.S. District Judge Stephen Bough in Springfield last […]
A helicopter plunged into the waters near Pearl Harbor memorial sites in Hawaii Thursday with five aboard, includinga 16-year-old boy who was taken to the hospital in critical condition. A 50-year-old man and a 45-year-old woman also were treated at the scene by Honolulu Emergency Medical Services and taken to the hospital in stable condition, […]
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