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Congrats to Team Senegal for winning the Africa Cup of Nations! I'm so happy for my work colleagues in beautiful Dakar. ⚽ Don't feel left out: doesn't the U.S. have its own little sports event coming up in a week or two? ;)

I borrowed this from the library and read it. It's an interesting take on a brilliant but flawed man, who was clever about aviation,* but once the fame went to his head, thought that meant he was equally clever about everything else, including police investigations, biology/medicine, racial...

With help from Qatar, it looks like Kabul International Airport is fully operational again (not that I'd want to fly there, but I'm still surprised at how fast it happened). There are scheduled domestic flights to Kandahar, and occasional international flights to Islamabad and Dubai. (Please...

A friend of mine in the Netherlands is about to take his first intro flight in a Pipstrel Velis (certified electric plane). I'll report back on his experience.

Today I learned. There was a double dashed purple line over Lake Michigan in the 0600z GFA for tomorrow morning, and I was curious what exactly it meant. A single purple dashed line is a trough, but there was nothing in the AIM or any of the Nav Canada weather legends/guides about a double...

A free Garmin webinar for the small-but-vocal minority of us who don't use ForeFlight on iOS (or Avare/FltPlan Go on Android). :) Thursday 9 September at 1100 EDT...

A work colleague needs help. She's been visiting Hawaii, but her elderly mother has become unwell, and is too weak to fly back to California on the airlines (I have no details about her illness). She reached out to me because she knows I fly volunteer flights for Hope Air in Canada, and thought...

Another reminder that even a forced landing into trees has a good chance of survival, as long as you keep the plane under control all the way to the ground (and until the last part stops moving). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/plane-crash-petawawa-july-24-1.6116515?cmp=rss Contributing...

There's so much to say about this one that I can't choose: https://generalaviationnews.com/2021/07/23/pilot-crashes-after-mistaking-voltmeter-for-fuel-gauge/

When I was shooting practice approaches at CYOW this afternoon, Tower vectored me to an intercept about 15 nm from the runway. There was no published leg of the RNAV LPV approach that I could intercept that far out, so I did some quick taps on my GTN 650 and changed from the original transition...

I see the moderators struggling with a lot of controversial threads unrelated to aviation. Over on the Piper Forum (which uses the same software), they've addressed the problem this way: Set up Off Topic and Controversies (C19, politics), etc forums. Make those forums invitation-only, so that...

Last year, a US-registered Bonanza departed OSH for Danbury, CT, then diverted hundreds of miles north into Canada to avoid storms, before crashing in a sparsely-populated area of Quebec. After four days, it was the ADS-B track from Aireron satellites that led SAR within 250m of the crash site...

The crash location is under the ILS 19 approach into CYGK. Multiple fatalities (the story says PA-32, but other reports said PA-32R): https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5376322 We've had suface temperatures hovering just above or below 0c for the last couple of days in Eastern Ontario, with warm air...

Hi -- pilot of Canada here. I was wondering if any TX pilots here could help me. I maintain a open-data site to update and distribute free airport data, and we have a problem report for 4TX2 (Stage Coach Hills Airport) near Keller, Texas: https://airnav.com/airport/4TX2 (not my site) Judging...