Earning an instrument and a type rating today still demands the applicant successfully fly a circling approach. Despite the FAA’s recent Advisory Circular (AC) 120-123 calling for an increased focus ...

Noise nuisance from aircraft can be reduced significantly by changing the way the planes come in to land. Lining up with the runway as far as 70 kilometres away and making a steady descent can more ...

Wright disagreed, saying, “If you can go up a category, you can also go down one,” from the one in which an aircraft is certified. Some pilots believe, too, that if they can fly a category D aircraft ...