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Drones in the News
Drones in the News When I was a kid my mom told me she could always tell when I was hiding something … “It shows all over your face,” she’d say. No one, not even me, believes drones this size are a...
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Airmanship and the Fundamentals of Flight
Sporty’s debut of its Cessna 172LITE Project has rightfully attracted the attention of a cannonball launched from the high dive at the deep end of the aviation pool. While most are paying attention to...
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First-Person View: The Future of Flight
Simply put, first-person view (FPV) is a smart phone perspective of flight. It gives the person in command of a remotely piloted aircraft a real-time look at where it is going. And it is the future...
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Is GA Included in NASA’s Low-Altitude Drone Traffic Management Program?
Late last year, NASA launched it Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) program to devise and test an automated system that would keep drones from bumping into each other as they...
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The FAA Invites Comments on Drone NPRM
Over the past quarter century I’ve read most of the Notices of Proposed Rulemaking that would affect general aviation. What separates the just released NPRM that introduces Part 107, Operation and...
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How Passengers Helped Mess Up Frequent Flyer Programs
How Passengers Helped Mess Up Frequent Flyer Programs Dear Reader / Listeners – You now have the option to listen to The Aviation Minute podcast or just read the script of the show below. If you...
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Cabin Fever Compiles an Aviation To-Do List
The older I get the more susceptible to hypothermia I seem to be, which is a roundabout way of saying that I’ve not been out much because many of these Wisconsin winter days have begun below zero. To...
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Air Mail Centennial is Opportunity for Grassroots Birth of National Park of...
In less than a month in late 1911, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and the United States each made their inaugural air mail flights. All of them were short distance experiments that led to regular...
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Looking Up at the Sounds & Sights of Spring
As aviators, the sky is where we’d rather be. While many factors conspire against the fulfillment of this desire, being attuned to and looking up at the inhabitants in the ocean of air above us...
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Biz Av Pilots Have Eaten Enough [Training] Cake
Publisher’s Note: Every once in awhile we receive a story that’s well enough written on a timely topic that we know we want to publish it after just the first read. Meet Kyle and Linda Reynolds from...
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Commercial Drones Facing Pilot Shortage
To learn more about commercial drone operations, I recently attended a 4-hour introductory course for pilots conducted by Vortex UAS. The thorough presentation covered everything from history to the...
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Brennand Airport Invests in Fun Flying
Needing an airplane fix on the Saturday before Father’s Day I wandered over to Brennand Airport (79C), 10 miles north of Oshkosh and 4 miles west of Neenah. It is today what small, nontowered airports...
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Delusions Impede Aviation Future
Airbus recently flew the first production version of its Voltair E-Fan 2.0, a two-seat electric airplane. The realization of this aviation technology is something we should all celebrate because it is...
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AirVenture 2015, Jetwhine AND a Free Lunch?
Here’s Tom Poberezny scooting around AirVenture in Red One VW that his dad Paul made famous decades ago. Ed Note: We’ve had such a great response to the story that I’m sad to say we’ve run out of slots...
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AirVenture Gateway Park: Portal to Drone Integration & Safety?
Framed by the diagonal street that connects the main gate of EAA AirVenture to the forums area is a triangle of land that over the years has proven to be a prism that spotlights a newest member of the...
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Jetwhine to AirVenture: Lunch for 20 Please
Jetwhine to AirVenture: Lunch for 20 Please One of the best parts of my annual trek to AirVenture is that happily, I have always found it next to impossible to sit anywhere on the grounds and NOT talk...
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Aviation Safety: Courage and the Pragmatic Acceptance of Inalienable Power
Like pilots everywhere, I never surrender an opportunity to go flying. And then there are days like today. Thunder rumbles closer, rain beats on the windows, and online radar reveals the crawling...
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ATC and Pilots: When to Keep your Mouth Shut and when to Speak Up
ATC and Pilots This sounds a bit pathetic, but most of the professional pilots I’ve known in my life have been smart alecks, me included … always ready with an opinion, whether anyone asked for it or...
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It Takes a Community to Promote Aviation
Promoting aviation to ensure its future viability and growth is something important to most of us who are involved with it personally or professionally. Individuals and organizations have promoted and...
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Taking Time to Find Aviation Serendipity
On your way someplace else, how many times have you passed a sign pointing to a small town airport? The more important question is how many times have you followed that sign? With the potential for...
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