SIMULATED ENGINE OUT TURNS REAL Every pilot knows that in order to become proficient you must practice for emergencies. Unfortunately, pilots and flight...
FAA Wants Help Eliminating Useless Rules Have you come across something that's arcane, anachronistic or just plain useless in your travels through the regs?...
Here's a question asked by an AOPA member who contacted our aviation services staff through the AOPA Pilot Information Center. Test your knowledge. Question:...
DIESEL ENGINES TO TAKE OVER U.S. MARKET BY 2015? There are now more than 1,500 diesel-powered aircraft flying around the world. One industry publication...
UNREGISTERED ULTRALIGHTS MAY HAVE TO BE SCRAPPED For those 2,000 to 3,000 two-place ultralights whose owners have not bothered to convert to the Experimental...
ELECTRIC AIRPLANE COMPETITION NOW FULLY CHARGED First it was ballooning legend Bertrand Piccard announcing that his piloted solar-powered airplane, "Solar...
Rotax Announces Global Training Standards As the Light Sport Aircraft category gathers steam in the U.S. and similar categories continue to grow in other...
GA SECURITY: ONLINE COURSE TEACHES YOU HOW TO DO YOUR PART Preserving general aviation as we know it today depends on you-the pilot, flight instructor, airport...
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF GA ACCIDENT FACTORS Do you know the largest contributing factors in general aviation accidents and incidents, or the phases of flight in...
Dick Rutan Safe After Emergency Landing Dick Rutan has piloted many challenging flights, including going around the world nonstop in his brother's Voyager...
Jon Thornburgh P.O. Box 3660 Redondo Beach, CA 90277 Tel: 800-971-8710 January 2, 2008 Docket Management Facility U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New...
AOPA "Pilot's Guide to Taxes" ( http://www.aopa.org/members/files/guides/tax_guide.html ) has been reviewed and updated by a professional for the 2007 tax...
Q & A: Question of the Week How would one register a Luscombe or Cessna-120 that's retrofitted with a Rotax-912ULS engine? Can I do this, and register this...
BRS RECORDS SAVE NO. 208 A pilot experiencing a probable control surface failure deployed a Ballistic Recovery Systems whole aircraft parachute, and returned...
X-AIR JOINS LAMA; COMPLETING S-LSA CERTIFICATION X-Air announced it has joined LAMA (Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association). X-Air is in the process of...
AIRCRAFT SPRUCE HAS INSTRUMENT PANEL LIGHT STRIPS Aircraft Spruce and Specialty now offers instrument panel light strips for use in experimental aircraft. The...
SPORTY'S ELECTRIC TUG Sporty's offers a cordless electric tug that will move most piston single and twin-engine aircraft. It features a castering rear wheel...
Light Sport Aircraft Sales Continue To Grow Almost twice as many light sport aircraft were sold in 2007 as in 2006, according to numbers compiled by Dan...