
Ethanol-Free Autogas is what most pilots want for their aircraft, but it is more and more difficult to find. Dean Billing has made find good fuel a lot easier by putting together a map showing airports in the USA that offer the good stuff. To check out the map yourself, visit: If your airport is ...
With sectionals becoming more and more difficult to find at the local airport, pilots are finding it a lot more convenient to use digital versions of the charts. Another great on-line source for sectionals has turned up called vfrmap.com. Jim talks about the features of that site and how student pilots can get involved in one of the first live Sport Pilot Ground Schools of the year.
This is another story about the TSA and its arrogance. In this case the TSA is doing something that goes against the original intent of the lawmakers that created the agency. If the TSA won't listen to them, what hope do we have?
Although I’ve written about aviation for over 20 years now, I rarely write about it on The Atlantic’s site because Jim Fallows already does such an excellent job of covering the topic here. But I do want to add a few words to what Jim’s already said (all of which I wholeheartedly agree with) in ...
It is an airplane world. So if you fly a gyroplane, you need to fit into that world when you are flying the pattern at airports. Greg Gremminger joins us to talk about how gyroplanes can safely integrate into the traffic pattern. Greg references a couple of FAA Advisory Circulars, AC 90-66A and AC 90-42F.
On those weekends that I’m hanging out at my newly adopted country airport of Great Barrington, MA (GBR), I always look forward to seeing young Joe Solan. *** Joe’s 12…going on 28, as someone at the airport affectionately quipped. *** Joe is one great kid, the kind I sometimes wish I’d been more like when ...
With the end of the political season pilots get two big reliefs. First, like everyone else, they will no longer have to look at political advertising on television for hopefully 18 months or so. Seccond, the number of presidential TFR's will go down. However, it is not the time to let your guard down since there are still an unusual number of airport NOTAMS. Jim Sweeney talks about NOTAMS and what the typical penalties are for violating them.
This week Jim Sweeney joins us to talk about airport patterns for powered parachutes. Most airports are still not used to having a lot of powered parachute traffic and want powered parachutes to fly the exact pattern that is flown by GA airplanes. This is not safe for either category of aircraft because of the differences in speeds. Jim gives us some alternatives.