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Seeking unconventional recruits

By Jamie Beckett · November 18, 2025 · 1 Comment

If we open the door wide enough, a whole new group of talented, capable, dedicated folks might just walk through it and become pilots.

New app solves one person’s problem

By Ben Sclair · November 14, 2025 · 3 Comments

Where2Fly2 App map view

“I even used the app while traveling, even when I wasn’t flying, to find local airports to visit,” said Michael. “But they stopped developing it.”

Will more flight schools start conducting their own testing?

By Ben Sclair · November 14, 2025 · 7 Comments

Official Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) logo

Reading that someone at the FAA has proposed a solution for discussion is wonderful.

Unless GA is grounded

By Ben Sclair · November 13, 2025 · 12 Comments

“Who knows, maybe general aviation will be grounded. And if that grounding sticks, that would be the end of General Aviation News.”

The view from here

By Jamie Beckett · November 11, 2025 · 7 Comments

MOSAIC has opened the door for us. Now it’s our turn to walk-out a marketing campaign that lets the other 330 million Americans who don’t fly know that now is their chance to step into a whole new life.

Preparing your airplane for the cold weather

By Ben Visser · November 10, 2025 · Leave a Comment

Why am I talking about signs of colder weather in an aviation fuels and lubricants column? What does fall have to do with your average general aviation aircraft? It is one of the most important times because for almost every plane it is time to change the oil.

At least 12% of this story is true

By Jamie Beckett · November 4, 2025 · 13 Comments

It is my belief the engineers at Cessna committed to a secret pact back in 1946. To the best of my knowledge none of them ever spoke of their devious plan for the remainder of their days.

I met my teenage doppelgänger

By Ben Sclair · October 31, 2025 · 1 Comment

Chairlift One

During a presentation to the Spokane chapter of the Washington Pilots Association, I met someone who had a childhood very similar to mine.

Boeing Model 81 trainer traded engines

By Frederick Johnsen · October 29, 2025 · Leave a Comment

In the late 1920s before the sobering effects of the Great Depression, aircraft and engine manufacturers tweaked and dabbled as they pursued the Next Big Thing.

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