The FAA has released a new animation to their Runway Safety Pilot Simulator and has generated a course using the Simulator which will garner you WINGS credit if completed (Course ALC-573)
Flight Safety
You Can’t Always Get What You Want (out of your aircraft)
An Air Facts Journal article written by Tom Curran describing his experiences conducting AOPA Safety Seminars over the past year.
Performance Charts vs Reality
A short video documenting testing of the takeoff and landing performance calculated using POH charts.
FAA Clarifies the Use of Clearance Delivery Phone Numbers
A recent article on AOPA’s website clarifies the use of Clearance Delivery phone numbers at non-towered airports.
uAvionix Has Received a TSO for its Tailbeacon ADS-B Solution
As reported by AOPA Online. Similar to its popular skyBeacon, which mounts on an aircraft’s left wing tip, the tailBeacon […]
Sporty’s Webinar on Using Datalink Radar in the Cockpit
It seems pilots still have a tendency to use enroute weather depictions from ADS-B or Sirius XM to make tactical flight decisions – watch this and learn why that is not a good idea…
AOPA’s Pilot Survey on Special Use Airspace
Read the results of AOPA’s pilot survey on Special Use Airspace (SUA).
What are FICONs?
In winter weather we will be seeing FICON reports in our NOTAMS during flight planning and possible hear them in ATID and AWOS recordings. Here is what those numbers mean.
