Cleared Direct
Aug 15, 2026
FIS-B beams free NEXRAD weather to your cockpit, but its built-in latency makes it a strategic tool that's dangerous to use for threading between storm cells.
Vector The Hangar
Aug 15, 2026
How Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis on October 14, 1947 - and why she now hangs in the Smithsonian.
Taildragger The Hangar
Aug 15, 2026
How Alaska legend Harold Gillam pioneered instrument flying, never lost a passenger for 15 years, and died in a 1943 crash.
Taildragger ATIS
Aug 15, 2026
Italy is seizing foreign-registered GA aircraft over unpaid VAT - here's what N-number owners flying in Europe need to know.
Tower Cleared Direct
Aug 15, 2026
How Joby's S4 tilts six electric propellers from hover to cruise - and why that transition decides the air taxi race.
Vector Traffic Pattern
Aug 15, 2026
Radio Hangar explores Line Up and Wait, the Phraseology Change That Replaced Position and Hold, and the Words That Keep You From Sitting on an Active Runway Blind.
Pattern The Hangar
Aug 15, 2026
Operation Tidal Wave was the daring August 1, 1943 low-level B-24 raid on Ploesti's oil refineries - costly, heroic, and strategically incomplete.
Taildragger ATIS
Aug 15, 2026
Pilot groups filed an FAA challenge to Mesa's landing fees at Falcon Field, warning the costs could scatter flight training and raise safety risks.
Tower Ramp Check
Aug 15, 2026
Sedona Airport (KSEZ) sits atop a mesa 500 feet above the red rocks - here's how to land the 'USS Sedona' safely.
Ramp The Hangar
Aug 15, 2026
Radio Hangar explores Swamp Ghost, the B Seventeen E Flying Fortress That Sat Sixty-Four Years in a New Guinea Swamp Before Anybody Could Get Her Out.
Taildragger Traffic Pattern
Aug 15, 2026
Learn to find the aiming point that doesn't move in your windscreen and land exactly where you plan, every time.
Pattern ATIS
Aug 15, 2026
The U.S. Army picked M1 Support Services to run Flight School Next, with the Robinson R66 replacing the UH-72 Lakota as its primary trainer.
Tower Traffic Pattern
Aug 15, 2026
Learn the crab, the wing-low slip, and the aileron-into-the-wind rollout that separates confident crosswind pilots from calm-air landers.
Pattern Traffic Pattern
Aug 15, 2026
Learn the FAA's DECIDE model and use its six steps to handle deteriorating weather on a cross-country before your options run out.
Pattern The Hangar
Aug 15, 2026
In 1924, four US Army Douglas World Cruisers set out to circle the globe - and the Chicago and New Orleans became the first aircraft ever to fly around the world.
Taildragger ATIS
Aug 15, 2026
The FAA proposes a Boeing 787 fan cowl airworthiness directive to prevent ice shedding that could shut down both engines at once.
Tower ATIS
Aug 15, 2026
The FAA's new draft guidance tackles the safety trade-offs of touchscreen and voice-command cockpits - here's what it means for pilots.
Tower Traffic Pattern
Aug 15, 2026
How the Gimli Glider's deadstick landing teaches every pilot the three skills that matter most: best glide, a failure flow, and the forward slip.
Pattern ATIS
Aug 15, 2026
A proposed 100% tariff on Chinese-made drones would double prices for the DJI hardware most commercial operators fly - here's what it means.
Tower The Hangar
Aug 15, 2026
Radio Hangar explores The Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the Fork-Tailed Devil With Two Booms and Two Engines That Outran Everything and Brought Its Pilots Home.
Taildragger