The flight instructor is the first gatekeeper when it comes to aviation safety. [Credit: Meg Godlewski] The flight instructor is the first gatekeeper when it comes to aviation safety. It is incumbent ...
A fatal flight accident occurred when a flight instructor (CFI) intentionally flew into a known thunderstorm at night with a student pilot, leading to both their deaths. The CFI, Timothy McKellar Jr., ...
Fred Fehsenfeld, a Purdue mechanical engineering alumnus, stands near Sky Dancer, a Pipistrel Sinus glider he gifted to Purdue. The gift effectively ushers in a new era of glider instruction and ...
When I first began actively training to become a pilot, the process of learning to fly was a relatively private journey. You worked with your instructors, you spent hours behind the controls, you read ...
DULUTH, Minn. & KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cirrus, the innovator in personal aviation, today announced the relaunch of the Cirrus Approach app, the premier digital mobile tool for flight ...
Editor's note: this story was updated for clarification on 9/12/2023. ExcelAir8 is not affiliated with Columbia Regional Airport or The Jet Center. MOBERLY − Flight school, ExcelAir8, opened a new ...
“We feel pretty confident that there probably is a greater demand potential here in the Midlands,” said airport General Manager Chris Eversmann. Eversmann said they must first decide who will operate ...
May 29—One thing was sure to lure young Bob Downs away from the dinner table. It was when he heard a Stinson mail plane passing above his childhood home on Latrobe's Irving Avenue, en route to the ...
Jeff Himler Saturday, May 29, 2021 12:01 a.m. | Saturday, May 29, 2021 12:01 a.m. One thing was sure to lure young Bob Downs away from the dinner table. It was when he heard a Stinson mail plane ...