Dan Pimentel

Based in southern France, Mélanie Astles has found success in competition aerobatics and as a race pilot on the Red Bull Air Racing Circuit.

The ramp at Grand Forks International Airport (KGFK) in North Dakota is full of GA training aircraft and helicopters.

Flight students pursuing a career in aviation by attending a university with a flight program face a number of challenges along the way.

When it comes to finding motivated aviation students, Fox Valley Technical College’s proximity to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is a valuable tool.

Let’s take a look at some of the LSAs that are available in the U.S. market today.

Flying fast aircraft is like “meditation” for actor Michael Dorn.

The Flight Design F2 incorporates a number of safety features that go beyond the company’s many standard safety features.

No need to pull even one rivet with the fully-assembled light sport model.

Of the approximately 10,000 members of the Recreational Aviation Foundation(RAF), about one-third have at one time utilized light sport airplanes to get in and out of the remote backcountry strips that draw these pilots to enjoy this popular niche of general aviation.

Sport pilot certified flight instructor Jake Leonard breaks down the process of training student pilots to earn their sport pilot certificate, and dives deep into the many variables of training in light-sport airplanes.

If the lighter side of sport aviation has piqued your interest, but you want to find out how they fly before deciding to shop for an LSA, trying them out on a flight simulator delivers a very realistic “test flight” from your desktop.

With the assistance of Able Flight, Justin Falls earned his sport pilot certificate and now flies a Zenith STOL CH 750 light-sport aircraft modified with hand controls.

For the third year, EAA is planning to enlist the massive crowd of show attendees to build a Sonex Waiex B kit airplane in one week. It is a monumental undertaking that requires many layers of careful planning.

Building an Experimental/Amateur-Built kit airplane that qualifies under the FAA’s light sport rules to be flown with a sport pilot certificate can save builders as much as 50 percent over the cost of a factory-built S-LSA model.

FLYING takes a look at a few “under the radae” light sport airplanes that while not from the top-tier makers, all represent great styling, good value, and a whole lot of fun flying.

Around the world, light sport airplanes are being used as an economical platform for many aerial-work applications. But in the U.S., they are restricted to only a tiny fraction of the uses they are suited to perform. Industry experts hope that all changes when the final MOSAIC regulatory rewrite is…

Light sport airplanes from South Africa and Belgium have completed multiple earth circumnavigations with efficient Rotax engines fed from modified fuel storage systems.

Bargain prices and advanced avionics can be found on the used light sport aircraft market.

Phil Lockwood provides insight on the most popular light sport engine.

We all know many people who express an interest in learning to fly, but when they finally decide to walk into a flight school that only teaches private pilot and above, the sticker shock of earning a private pilot certificate can often scare them right back into the parking lot. It is this high cost…