An experienced, instrument-rated pilot fatally crashed a Bonanza while attempting to land in heavy fog at Tucker-Guthrie Memorial Airport (I35). The pilot had a history of regularly disregarding ...

The civil aviation authorities of Singapore and Malaysia will work together to develop Global Positioning System-based (GPS) instrument approach procedures at Seletar Airport, in place of the ...

A pilot killed in a plane crash while trying to land in heavy fog at an Eastern Kentucky airport may not have gotten a weather briefing before the flight. There was no record that Dr. David G. Sanford ...

It seems that every bit of new aviation technology is initially made much more complicated and confusing for pilots to use than is necessary. For example, when GPS navigators first became available, ...

Australia's major air carriers are examining whether they can establish straight-in non-precision approach capabilities at any airport on their domestic route networks. Qantas wants its Boeing 737s ...

The two-video course, ``Flying GPS Approaches--Featuring the KLN 89B,'' is designed to introduce pilots to GPS navigation. In Part 1, pilots learn how to go beyond ``direct to'' and use an IFR GPS.

Most recently Hickok has been in Switzerland designing and preparing to validate a Waas LPV-equivalent approach to the Interlaken Hospital, using the European Egnos GPS satnav-augmentation system. His ...

Garmin International has received the first certification of a GPS wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) receiver providing instrument landing system (ILS) -like precision approach capability. The ...

During the course of the last 30 years, precision approach landing systems have undergone a series of name changes, technological advancements and system setbacks. However, the concept of using a ...

I love being a licensed private pilot. As you may have seen from other videos, I am starting my instrument rating training. I really believe that I will be a much safer pilot when I get my IFR or ...

Everybody knows tonight's the night Santa departs the North Pole on his round-the-world trip delivering presents. What you might not know is that because the weather at the North Pole can be ...