Northstar VFR
AUGUST 25, 2024
These required inspections are vitally important to the safe operation of general aviation aircraft, so even student pilots are required to know the basics to pass a Private Pilot checkride. There are a few exceptions when the aircraft can be flown outside of this timeframe, such as when a special flight permit is issued.
Air Facts
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
What NTSB Reports Say About Impossible Turns and Angle of Attack—Part 2: Analysis, Questions Raised, and Next Steps The current emphasis in general aviation (GA) safety is on visual angle of attack (AOA) indicators and impossible turns (return to the airport following engine failure). for several general aviation airplanes.
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AV Web
JULY 7, 2024
We navigated using pilotage and occasionally a VOR. Weather, especially dangerous weather, was an unseen and sometimes surprising thing before we could access and watch it on a screen in our humble general aviation spam cans. Have you ever seen those power outlet plugs in an airplane cockpit that we plug our iPads into?
Air Facts
APRIL 10, 2024
The written test had 25 questions and the hardest thing on the practical was explaining what VOR was and how it worked. Other logbook entries weave a story of the experiences only general aviation can bring. In spring of 1967 I soloed after eight hours of dual and received my ticket that fall.
Pilot Institute
APRIL 24, 2024
Keeping jet traffic safe alongside slower general aviation aircraft is harder still. If flying under IFR, you’ll need a VOR or TACAN receiver, or an RNAV system (GPS). That’s a considerable detour for small general aviation aircraft. Managing so many aircraft is challenging. Equipment Requirements A two-way radio.
Photographic Logbook
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Among General Aviation pilots, there was great fear that private aircraft would be permanently barred from controlled airspace, particularly around the epicenters of those attacks in New York City and Washington DC. Although 9/11 marked the weaponization of commercial aircraft, the aftereffects are felt most keenly by General Aviation.
Photographic Logbook
OCTOBER 28, 2023
Located directly on the Hudson River roughly thirty miles north of New York City, Sleepy Hollow is easily accessed by General Aviation and seven Williamson Flying Club members planned a Halloween pilgrimage there to follow the trail of the Headless Horseman. As the clouds broke up, we could see the Catskills lurking beneath.
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