Video of the Week

More and more pilots show up on the AME’s doorstep armed with the wrong or not enough paperwork to pass an FAA medical exam. That could be mean waiting a half year or more for the FAA to issue a medical when you could have been issued a certificate on the spot if you only […]

For our Amelia Walsh, getting to Mardi Gras was half the fun with her husband in their Cessna 310. Along the way they stopped in Dallas to pick up a rescue dog to take him to his new home in Colorado.

A lot of factors have to line up to create the kinds of conditions Marshall Severson enjoyed when he took a trip to the toe of Knik Glacier in south central Alaska in mid-February in his 172.

Despite false rumors and misinformation that the hugely popular Garmin GNS-series navigators are at the end of their service life, Garmin says that 99 percent of GNS users can keep using their units. Moreover, the Garmin factory will still continue to support common repairs and refurbishments as it has for the past 25 years. For […]

Aviation Consumer’s Larry Anglisano talks with Mark Welch as he prepares to power up an elaborate panel in a Van’s RV-10 under construction in this KITPLANES video.

When Capt. Walter Workman, a helicopter instructor for 3 Canadian Forces Flying Training School in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, was surveying training areas he found an artifact from the Royal Canadian Air Forces’ long history on the Canadian Prairies, a Bolingbroke bomber.

Firecrown presents the first edition of Inside Aviation, a podcast that will have a look at various aspects of the industry with a fresh set of eyes. For the first half of the show Jack Daleo of Flying magazine joins hosts Kevin Cortes and Ryan Ewing to discuss the ever-evolving future of urban air mobility, […]

A group of volunteers and some generous sponsors are restoring the first Lear Jet 23 to be delivered to a customer, and Tom Zwemke a retired marketing executive from Cessna created and produced the video as a donation to help promote Classic Lear Jet Foundation and the restoration of Lear Jet 23-003. An earlier version […]

Aviation Consumer’s Rick Durden logged 3.3 hours on AOPA’s Beech C55 Baron burning G100UL on one engine and 100LL on the other. Other than slightly better performance from the engine on unleaded, it was a non-event. Durden and Aviation Consumer Editor-in-Chief Larry Anglisano debriefed the flight.

There are plenty of first solo videos out there but Sling Pilot Academy did a particularly good job of chronicling this student’s big day.