Browsing: Pilot Corner

What does this symbol mean?

You’re planning an IFR flight, and the weather at your destination is marginal. Do you need to file an alternate? And if so, what are the…

The FAA is accepting comments through Sept. 24 on proposed guidance for certifying cockpit controls that include touchscreens, speech recognition and other software-based interfaces. Draft Advisory…

Thanks to UND Aerospace Phoenix for making this story possible. Check out the full series here. And if you want to become a pilot, learn how…

Researchers from UC San Diego and Oberlin College on Thursday presented a proof-of-concept hardware attack that could interfere with communications between critical avionics systems on Boeing…

How many of these symbols have you seen? 1) Stand-Alone AWOS/ASOS Weather Stations Not connected to an airport, you’ll find stand-alone AWOS and ASOS stations charted…

The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, has a new name—the North American Aerospace Museum. The museum, which opened in 2001 approximately 50 miles…

Heart Aerospace’s X1 demonstrator completed its first flight Wednesday at Plattsburgh International Airport in New York. The company says the full-scale Heart X1 aircraft is the…

Live from the Flight Deck Have you ever dropped your iPad in the cockpit? What would you do if this happened to you? Corporate Flight Crew…

At lunch several weeks ago, I told a story of a B-25 that crash-landed at Lunken Airport in the 1960s with a cargo of wild reptiles,…