Initial flight training emphasizes trusting instruments over senses to overcome spatial disorientation, especially in low visibility conditions. However, during night takeoffs, the gyro-based attitude ...
A study of instrument-rated private pilots found that only 20% completed six or more in-flight approaches over a six-month period, with the median being just two, suggesting a widespread lack of ...
OLATHE, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Garmin ® International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), is pleased to announce that the popular GI 275 electronic flight instrument has received European ...
As a child, Curtis Erickson of Savage was fascinated with the air mail pilots who buzzed over his family's farm during the 1930s in Dawson, Minn. Erickson, a Minnesota aviation pioneer in ...
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar is the latest musician to speak up about airlines mishandling their instrument. On Wednesday, she shared a video online, writing, “Devastated and truly disturbed by @airindia ...
Spanish investigators have detailed an unusual incident in which a Boeing 737-500 crew struggled to control the aircraft after the autopilots failed, even though all the instruments needed to operate ...