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I keep getting alerts from flightaware.com that my N number has been flying all around Europe in the past couple weeks. I’m assuming some bizjet is spoofing my transponder code. Is there anything I can do about this? Because, I know my airplane has been safely locked away in its hangar during...

Nowhere on this plate do I see GPS is required. So, How do you do the missed approach procedure?

Northern Californian company Aska showed this prototype of a flying car during Monterey Car Week that it hopes to produce within two to three years. The Aska A5 flying vehicle can take off both vertically and horizontally, an improvement on the "flying car" idea. The plan is to use these planes...

Have you seen the video going around tick-tock and Twitter yesterday? Two airliners flying nose to tail in formation over a soccer stadium in South Africa? It looks fake, right?

Source: https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/nasa-axes-x-57-maxwell-before-first-flight/ it seems to me, a guy like Burt Rutan could’ve bolted a dozen electric motors to an airframe on his lunch break. And at the end of the hour say: “yep, this is a stupid idea.”

The Tecnam Company -finally- has an honest assessment of electric airplanes– the battery technology is not even close to being ready. source: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2023/june/14/tecnam-puts-electric-twin-on-ice?utm_source=ebrief&utm_medium=email

It was airport construction. It was thunderstorms. It was air traffic control… IT WASN’T MY FAULT!

Last November, first snowstorm of the year, and my kid slides into the car in front of him and totals the Family Truckster, as teenage boys are wont to do. No more minivans for wifey, she wants something fun: a Jeep Compass. We test drive a new 2022, but it’s under powered. The 2023s are being...

FTA: An existing 4,000 to 5,000 small local and regional airports could serve as launch and landing points for eVTOLs without having to modify the existing infrastructure. Cities and states are now attempting to figure out how they could use existing heliports or other infrastructure as...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10522613/British-man-26-killed-plane-span-control-crashed-fields-Spain.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark British man, 26, is killed after his plane spun out of control and crashed down in to fields during training...

https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/news/2021/10/21/pilot-records-post-crash-video-before-first-responders-show/ From the article: “Committed to an airframe parachute deployment, yanked the handle and after a wild ride bouncing through the trees, the BRS Aerospace parachute delivered me safely to...

I’ve never heard of this — just showed up in my inbox: NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (NOAA) SEARCH AND RESCUE SATELLITE AIDED TRACKING (SARSAT) The 2-year registration for your 406 MHz ELT expired yesterday. This is your 2nd renewal reminder. Please take a few moments now to...

Pipistrel fires all US distributors. Source: http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=47fc561e-065d-499f-840b-0b8b6778ff1a Seems to me bad timing to kick to the curb all your Pipistrel USA dealers when you’re trying to launch your brand new “Cirrus Killer” the Pipistrel...

So I am shopping to upgrade from my 80 HP light sport. I am impressed with the whole TECNAM lineup. I want a new one with all the bells and whistles (IFR capable, deluxe seat covers, etc.) So, I go to the AVEM CO website and fill in the blanks on their online form. I get this response: Unable...

Door to door air cargo… By a private pilot?? https://sanduskyregister.com/news/307930/smcc-grad-delivers-food-to-kelleys-island/ The article states the pilot is encouraging local residents to place orders with restaurants he’s partnered with. Even if the private pilot is not excepting cash...

It appears as though the FAA has shifted the location of the Class B airspace around Cleveland Hopkins Airport. All of the rings seem to have moved about a mile to the northeast. Foreflight currently reflects the old airspace boundaries, but also the new ones in a light blue thinner line. There...