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I think a good thing - https://avbrief.com/faa-ends-see-and-avoid-for-helicopters-at-busy-airports/

https://skyfix.aero/

This seems to me like it could cause accidents by people mistakenly thinking clearance is guaranteed. https://avbrief.com/garmin-guided-visuals-decoded

So we always wear parachutes when doing aerobatic flight and often in gliders. So I thought it might be a good idea to get some training in how to do a proper parachute jump, just in case. Went out this morning to do the first step, which is a tandem jump with an instructor. The view when you...

So my wife bought me for Christmas a coaster made from a piece of the fuselage of the Gimli Glider. Fun.

Interesting article about invention of the process to produce high octane fuels - https://www.inventionandtech.com/content/wizard-octane-0

Just pilot on board and non-fatally injured. https://apnews.com/article/new-hampshire-plane-crash-26a664667bc4acc28d527acd6b53dbb9

This is a great book which explains the underlying physics of flight from an intuitive perspective. Very accessible no matter what your comfort level with math. https://a.co/9zlDYDV

https://apnews.com/article/australia-parachute-entangled-ff6a37bbeb8af80718114a9b379b7b49

Strange re-use https://luxurylaunches.com/other_stuff/kuala-lumpur-airport-abandoned-boeing-747-12062025.php

A question for the season. What is the approximate power in horsepower being produced by Santa’s reindeer to pull his flying sleigh?

Even better for GA pilots would be to simply eliminate 3rd class medicals for private pilots. There is no evidence they improve the safety of flight and are just a historical leftover from WWI and the first chief medical officers. Let PP fly with driver’s license medicals like SP...

This is a photo of the old airway beacon on the bluff above Holman Field in Saint Paul MN. It marked the end of the route from Chicago to St. Paul. Downtown St. Paul is to the right of the beacon in this view and in the distance is Minneapolis.

So this no doubt costs the airlines plenty. Could they ask the FAA to step aside and install some private controllers to handle this airspace? https://apnews.com/article/lax-airport-flights-delays-shutdown-b2e0c13f3241e415784c3118fc8f0c9d

So some researcher’s reconstructed the actual radios used and tested them over the ocean. They think this lets them have a much better idea of where the plane was and went down. The various headlines around seem to tout a much greater precision than seems likely to me. This video discusses a...

Interesting but I think Federal pre-emption is rather clear on this point. https://avbrief.com/tribe-seizes-airplane-after-emergency-landing-on-reservation

My 1000th flight in a small plane was this morning. While out to fuel my Cardinal I was greeted by this rainbow -

https://youtu.be/p-VqtNY8vpw

There is an old gravel strip called Turnbox which is west of the Estrella Sailport at 33.00.870N, 112.24.193W. It was apparently put up by people from the Turf Soaring group years ago. It was intended as possible spot for out-landings between Gila Bend and Estrella Sailport. I was out flying...

Way too many of these things and they likely are protecting against an extremely rare to nonexistent threat. But I guess they help the politicians feel irreplaceable and important. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/flying-a-plane-is-fun-until-you-enter-restricted-airspace-137a733f