TRAINING & SIMS

Most instrument trips end with one approach and one landing, after which you go about your day. For those times when one approach doesn’t...

What do operations of any two aircraft, be they a heavy Boeing 777 or the tiniest piston-engine light sport aircraft, have in common? Checklists,...

Exploring new places with your airplane can be fun, but sometimes that requires being comfortable with operations you don’t do often. It can also...

You can fly a lot of IFR these days without encountering anything but GPS approaches with LPV minimums. In this challenge, you’ll fly departures...

You can think of your sim like a desktop operating system: By itself, it’s not extremely useful; only when you install third-party applications on...

In the opening phases of World War II, our country was feverishly training pilots for war. Thousands of cadets earned coveted US Army Air...

These Sim Challenges have been accused of creating “gotchas” to catch the unsuspecting—and rightly so. That’s part of the game. So we decided it...

Flying in the system is about, well, flying, and not so much about checking the boxes of 14 CFR Part 91-fill-in-the-blank. Yet the rules...

Last time in this series on building a home simulator we said that Part Three would discuss adding third-party extensions to your basic sim....

There’s an old joke about the retired airline pilot who checks out in a Cessna 172 after years of flying heavy iron. The pilot...

Annual recurrent simulator training takes multiple forms. For more advanced aircraft, typically turboprops and jet aircraft, that training takes place at a large formal...

When your instrument ticket was brand new your skills were ultra-sharp. But over time, winter doldrums, aircraft maintenance, etc. that proficiency atrophied. Indeed, research...