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A well-known swashbuckling British pilot has lost an appeal of an earlier decision to fire him for allowing a passenger into the cockpit on a flight last month. As we reported in October, Pablo Mason, a retired RAF Gulf War veteran, whose handlebar mustache and irreverent demeanor have endeared him to many British citizens, also […]

New Multi-Crew Pilot License (MPL) training standards recently adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) are causing an explosion in flight simulator sales as training organizations and airlines rush to implement the simulator-heavy training regimen. Under the new standards, a student can become a fully qualified first officer with as little as 40 hours […]

Will news helicopters and traffic spotters soon be mixing it up with police drones? Thats one of many questions that will have to be answered as the FAA asks the Miami and Houston police forces to try out unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) “in urban environments” for tasks like search and rescue and spotting traffic hazards. […]

Sometimes things just go from bad to worse. According to the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal, a 25-year-old Timmins, Ont., pilot faces a fine of up to $10,000 in a chain of events that began with a successful emergency road landing and ended with his badly damaged Grumman American in a ditch after an aborted takeoff. […]

A Kenya Wildlife Service pilot who survived on his own urine and leaves for eight days in the Kenyan forest told reporters hell be back in the cockpit as soon as hes recovered. Capt. Solomon Nyanjui was flying a Kenya Power and Lighting helicopter when it went down 10 kilometers from Chuka Town, in the […]

A Virgin Atlantic relief pilot, who was hauled off an aircraft and arrested on suspicion of being drunk, has been cleared of the charges and is expected to return to work. The unidentified 42-year-old pilot, who was to fly as the third crew member on the Virgin A340 from Heathrow to Miami, was arrested Oct. […]

Cessna CEO Jack Pelton has confirmed what many suspected when the Cessna 162 Skycatcher – and its $109,000 price tag – were introduced earlier this year. In an interview with The Wichita Eagle, Cessna CEO Jack Pelton said that to make that price target “a major part of that content has to be built someplace […]

When a Beech Bonanza crashed into a New Jersey neighborhood in November 1999, killing the pilot and his wife and child, as well as one person on the ground, many lawsuits followed. This week, one of those suits was resolved in favor of S-Tec Corporation, based in Texas, manufacturer of the airplane’s autopilot. The case […]

If your holiday wish is to go flying with CNN reporter (and pilot) Miles O’Brien or to have aviation photographer Paul Bowen personally autograph a copy of his classic book “Air to Air” for you, then Build-A-Plane’s eBay auction site is the place you’re looking for. You can also bid to share a talkative lunch […]

After a TSA agent at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport said he smelled alcohol on the breath of a Midwest Airlines pilot last week, airport police arrested him. A breath test registered a blood alcohol level of .016, and the FAA limit for pilots is .04 and eight hours. The airline’s own limit is .02 percent. […]