Dietmar Zschogner submitted this photo and note: “Doing a winter approach over blueberry fields at Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, in our Cessna 150 into our turf strip. Great Cessna performance at ~10° Celsius.”
Laser strikes break dangerous record
The FAA received 9,723 reports of laser strikes from pilots in 2021, a 41% increase over 2020.
Cuban fly-in canceled
An April 2022 fly-in to Cuba has been canceled citing an ongoing ban on private flights to the island nation.
Cascade Warbirds extends scholarship deadline
Get those applications in by March 31, 2022.
Picture of the Day: Snowy takeoff
Jim Stevenson submitted this photo and note: “Joe McDonough in his Backcountry Super Cub taking off on a snow-covered Lake Wisconsin.”
Ultimate World War II Fighter Experience grand prize in museum fundraiser
The winner of the sweepstakes will travel to London, England, where they will fly three rare dual-seat fighters of World War II: The P-51D Mustang, the Supermarine Spitfire TR.9, and the Curtiss TP-40N Warhawk.
New pilot training opportunities available from Garmin
Garmin has expanded pilot training opportunities for 2022, including webinars, eLearning courses, instructor-led classes and a variety of self-study guides and trainers offered for the GTN series, G500/600, G500/G600/G700 TXi, G3X, and Garmin integrated flight decks.
Picture of the Day: Magneto The Aviator Dog
Jeff DeFreest submitted this photo and note: “My bride, Kari DeFreest, trusty hound Maggie (Magneto), and I are on a quest to stay at all of the 140 public use cabins on the 17 million acre Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska. We use our Skywagon on Edo 2960s to get around this vast area of boreal rainforest and the Inside Passage to get to many fly-in lake cabins. This photo was taken at one of the two amazing USFS cabins on Sitkoh Lake. Maggie enjoys most any outdoor adventure, but is also very attuned to the stealthy approach of brown bears.”
The ultimate game of chicken
A drone flown by the Honeywell IntuVue RDR-84K radar system recently triumphed in what company officials call the “ultimate game of chicken,” repeatedly swerving around intruder aircraft in a series of tests that are key to the future of pilotless aviation, according to Honeywell officials.