Flight Outfitters, creators of gear for pilots, has launched a new video series to complement the company’s tagline: Pilot Your Own Adventure. The first video in the series captures the adventure of flying in and around Valdez, Alaska, as part of the Valdez Fly-in, which is billed as Alaska’s premier bush flying event. Now in […]
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Video: Electric tug for aircraft
The folks at FunPlacesToFly.com recently posted a video (just over five minutes long), demonstrating their new Electric Aircraft Tug from MiniMaxTugs for their Cessna 172.
Video: Cheers to 30 years
Officials at Women in Aviation International recently posted a video looking back at the organization’s 2018 conference in Reno, as well as a look forward to the 2019 conference in Long Beach, California.
Video: Controlled Flight Into Terrain: What more can we do?
Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) accidents continue to occur in general aviation despite enhanced technologies available in the cockpit. An FAA video helps pilots learn more about the causes and potential mitigation strategies for addressing these accidents and improving safety in the national airspace system.
Video: Weather Technology in the Cockpit
The FAA recently posted a new video, “Weather Technology in the Cockpit.” The short video — just 2 minutes and 28 seconds — documents some of the research conducted by the FAA’s Weather Technology in the Cockpit program’s research team, which conducts studies on how pilots process the weather information they receive while flying in […]
Video: Goodbye Fish-Eye
Our friends at FunPlacesToFly.com just posted this video, which shows a comparison between the Field of View Settings of Wide versus Linear on GoPro Session 5 cameras. “We mounted two cameras, side-by-side on the strut of our Cessna,” says Smitty Smith, the force behind FunPlacesToFly.com, “one set with a field of view of Wide and […]
Video: Historic South Carolina hangar gets a new lease on life
The historic Curtiss-Wright Hangar at Hamilton-Owens Field in South Carolina is on the National Register of Historic Places. That makes it difficult — but not impossible — to breath new life into. But that is exactly what’s happened. South Carolina ETV produced a nice video that offers some historical perspective, as well as an update on […]
Video: Trying out the Lightspeed Zulu 3 headset
Smitty Smith of FunPlacesToFly.com recently posted this short video, showing the unboxing of his new Lightspeed Zulu 3 aviation headset, along with a quick flight to try it out.
Video: Warbirds on Parade
Smitty Smith of FunPlacesToFly.com posted this video on YouTube of his visit to the 2017 Warbirds on Parade event sponsored by the DFW Wing of the Commemorative Air Force at Lancaster Airport in Lancaster, Texas, in November 2017.