[sc:Top-of-Post ] 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 the order of the day.

[sc:Top-of-Post ] 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 start a 40 degree dive for the desert floor 2500…

[sc:Top-of-Post ] 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 out and I had to mention it here. This is…

[sc:Top-of-Post ] 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 keeping the right to practice your craft for-hire.  Take a…

[sc:Top-of-Post ] 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 made it into Gila River airport and the other landed…

[sc:Top-of-Post ] Editor: Each year the AOPA Air Safety Foundation publishes a free report capturing accident data and statistics. This edition of the report is covering accidents in 2010 (this delay is to allow accident investigations to close). I highly recommend reading this report. There is a good deal we can learn from the numbers….

[sc:Top-of-Post ] When you build an airplane, there are many times that you just need an extra hand. This is especially true with a metal airplane that needs to be riveted together. My son, Mitchel, was my right-hand man in that regard. Since it took almost 5 years to build it, Mitchel was just at…

[sc:Top-of-Post ] Editors Note: As a native of Oklahoma, I have been excitedly watching the progress of this fascinating project coming out of Tulsa. I can’t wait to see it fly! By D.R. STEWART World Staff Writer In June 1940, as Ettore Bugatti and Louis de Monge were preparing to roll out their technologically advanced…

[sc:Top-of-Post ] By Stephen Pope Dynon Avionics has unveiled a portable backup EFIS that might just be the perfect budget emergency flight display. The Dynon D1 Pocket Panel makes use of the same micro AHRS (attitude and heading reference system) technology as the company’s panel-mount EFIS displays for the experimental market, but packaged in a…

[sc:Top-of-Post ] Special Report Introduction (updated Oct 5th, 2012) The dwindling number of pilots in the U.S.A. has the attention of a lot of people. There are currently far more questions than answers and it is unlikely that those answers will come from one source. It will take a collective effort to reverse this trend,…