US Aviation Academy has won an $835.6M US Air Force contract to provide early-stage pilot training through 2035 under a ...

Pilots are imperfect by design. We’re human, after all. On any given flight, a pilot is faced with dozens of interrelated decisions that guide the airplane to its destination, hopefully intact and ...

Your browser does not support iframes, but you can visit Listen in as pilot and aviation expert Pat Veillette explains to Aviation Week Network's Lee Ann Shay what ...

An altitude chamber at the University of North Dakota trains pilots to deal with the crippling effects of decompression and hypoxia in the hopes they can avoid deadly ...

One of the challenges of 61.87 is that there isn’t a performance metric on the required tasks, unlike the Airman ...

Several years ago, as interest in the nascent advanced air mobility industry began to grow, regulators and industry faced a vexing dilemma: How do you integrate a new class of aircraft when there are ...

As both a pilot and VR expert, there is no way I could ignore the topic of flight training in virtual reality. Although this niche seems rather narrow, VR is a breakthrough technology for pilot ...

Back on July 25, this column included a brief item about the safety record of Qantas, the kangaroo-tailed national airline of Australia. That same day, as fate would have it, a Qantas 747 en route ...

There are about 30+ pilot training colleges in India. All of them are recognised by the DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) as FTO (Flying Training Organisation) for flight training. Some are ...

Your Post-9/11 or Montgomery GI Bill benefits can be used for flight training, such as: In order to qualify, you must have a private pilot's license and valid medical certification before beginning ...

— -- Ten minutes after takeoff from Hartford, Conn., on a Delta Connection flight Sept. 9 to Detroit, Steven Smeltzer's ears popped, and flight attendants yelled at everyone in the Bombardier ...

Air disasters, like celebrity deaths and tropical storms, seem to happen in threes. No sooner were the flames doused in Toronto when a Cypriot 737 went down in bizarre fashion on Aug. 14, followed two ...