Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Last week a good friend, Tom Webster, passed away. Tom was 76 and lived in Columbus, OH most of his life. He was an avid aviator and built an RV-7A that he flew right up to the end. He passed peacefully in his…

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Today the NTSB issued a press release on the G-650 test flight crash that killed 4 crewmembers and destroyed the aircraft.  The short version is that Gulfstream was too aggressive in trying to get the airplane certified and to the market. Go here…

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! I will steer clear of politics on this blog, but no matter your political affiliation, this kind of rhetoric is damaging to aviation as a whole. Below from AvWeb: In last week’s presidential debate, President Obama said people who operate business jets shouldn’t…

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Editorial Is the romance gone from professional flying? Why do most of these pilots choose golf, boating, hunting, ad nauseam over a pleasure flying on their days off? (For our purposes, professional flying refers to the airline, charter, or corporate pilot.) I am going…

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Flying In High School There are not enough high school students learning to fly these days. I was lucky enough to get my private license my senior year and it really framed the rest of my life. Here is that story: The urge…

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! You might wonder how a big aviation university is doing during the recession. After all, airline flying is not the glamorous, big money career it used to be. What’s a college to do? At Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, change is…

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Arizona Aerobatics Reprinted article by George Norris The sky is a deep Arizona blue and the hint of wind that sneaks around the windscreen in the open cockpit has a nice early morning chill. You quickly check your airspeed and altitude and then…

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! SpaceX Makes History – Again! I normally won’t be discussing space too much on this blog, but last night I watched the SpaceX CRS-1 Rocket launch into orbit with a NASA payload bound for the International Space Station and it totally geek’d me…

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! This week I get the privilege of repeating a tradition that has gone on for the last 16 years -recurrent simulator training. I don’t know of many professions where you literally put your career on the line twice a year in exchange for…

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! On Friday, October 5th, two Piper aircraft collided in the skies over Arizona. At least one of the aircraft was on an IFR training flight. As you view the pictures you’ll realize how miraculous it was that no one was injured. One aircraft…