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Innovative system for aviation taxi touts saving fuel and reducing carbon footprint.

Flight crew circumstances during a 2016 El Al flight could have resulted in a different outcome.

Aptitude and cognitive skills testing are being viewed as more important than ever before for an airline pilot.

Here's a glimpse into a bygone cockpit culture.

Check airman job opportunity was so much more than wearing a name tag.

An hour-and-a-half flight tested a pilot's decision-making acumen more than the typical trans-Atlantic trips of his professional career.

A FLYING Magazine reader asks a question plenty of us outside the airline industry have wondered about.

Declaring an emergency, dealing with distractions, and diverting for an unplanned stop.

Has the airline industry mitigated risks in the wake of 9/11? Yes, but it's an evolving process that requires everyone to participate.

Is the profession experiencing a new threat?

A service advisory issued by Garmin on January 4 threw some operators of its legacy products into a tailspin.

Like all of the company’s headsets, the A30 was designed to reduce noise fatigue.

A trip to take in the Kentucky Bourbon Trail makes for a pleasant flying adventure.

Judging by my friends’ continued jubilant accounts of their trips, just one flight can have a lasting impact on someone’s life experience.

Award-winning CFI Gary Reeves continues to combine conventional aviation training with innovative thinking.

Other than Amelia Earhart’s fate, civil aviation has no greater mystery than the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH 370).

With Lakeland only a short distance from our home in Florida by car or air, attending Sun ’n Fun Aerospace Expo is a no-brainer.

With my Piper Arrow loaded to its full capacity of four people, the Lycoming IO-360 engine decided it no longer wanted to participate at full power.

Mandatory retirement age for airline pilots didn’t exist until March 1960, when it became a federal aviation regulation.

This retiree’s advice to new-hire pilots is the same advice I received: Keep your options open and have a fallback career.