Aviation Education Posts

NPRM Offers New Part 23 Airplane Lexicon
March 13, 2016

NPRM Offers New Part 23 Airplane Lexicon

If the recently released Part 23 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking survives the comment and review period and makes it to a final rule, old, new, and prospective pilots will have to learn a new airplane lexicon. But don’t hyperventilate, like the …
Aviation Mastery or Minimum Standards . . . What’s Your M.O.?
Feb. 25, 2016

Aviation Mastery or Minimum Standards . . . What’s Your M.O.?

Publisher Note: I’ve known Jim Lara for some time since we work together on the NBAA Single Pilot Working Group trying to tackle the challenge of reducing the accident rate for people who fly business airplanes alone. Like me, Jim believes tha…
Technology Satisfies Cockpit Curiosity
Feb. 14, 2016

Technology Satisfies Cockpit Curiosity

Maybe it’s a pilot thing, but I find the insides of airplanes just as interesting, and often more interesting, than their outsides. Cockpits and crew stations is where humans interface with the machine that carries them aloft, and I’m al…
Congress Proposes Drastic Cut to GI Bill Flight Training
Jan. 31, 2016

Congress Proposes Drastic Cut to GI Bill Flight Training

If you care about the aviation industry and the veterans, whose honorable service earned them GI Bill benefits that lead to the degrees leading to careers in it, you need to be aware of HR 3016. You may wonder what the VA Provider Equity Act, which …
Taking Time to Find Aviation Serendipity
Jan. 3, 2016

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 unknown delays between the sign and your intended d…
It Takes a Community to Promote Aviation
Dec. 20, 2015

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 pursued programs dedicated to inviting newcomers…