A good place to start is with your own learners and Chapter 7 of the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) where, under "Safety of Flight," you can find comprehensive information about weather and the ...

We all want better judgment. We want to prepare well to perform well. We want our plans to run smoothly and to avoid unnecessary stress. However, we don't always take steps that will objectively help ...

One of the most valuable tools pilots have to help one another in flight is the Pilot Report — or PIREP. Whether you’re flying a Cessna 172 or a CRJ at flight level 250, your firsthand report of ...

On July 26, 2025, about 2237 Pacific daylight time, a Beech 95-B55, N8976R, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Pacific Grove, California. The pilot and two passengers ...

While aviation accidents have made headlines a lot in 2025, airline travel continues to be the safest type of transportation. You can look at the first quarter of the transportation statistics here.

When it comes to weather, “looks pretty good” is not a PIREP (pilot report) or a weather briefing, but that’s a phrase you often hear at the airport. I find this irksome as one of the first skills a ...

Every ten years, a new disruptive technology hits the market that fundamentally changes how we operate small airplanes. In the 2000s, GPS changed the way we navigated. In the 2010s, the iPad and ADS-B ...

This site displays a prototype of a “Web 2.0” version of the daily Federal Register. It is not an official legal edition of the Federal Register, and does not replace the official print version or the ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 3 — A Firefly flight heading to Penang was forced to return to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang after the air conditioning system overheated today, resulting in smoke filling ...