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“Pibot” Can Fly Anything Say Researchers Korean researchers say their humanoid “pibot” is an autonomous flight system that doesn’t require significant flight deck modifications. The...

I always enjoy the magazine. Thank you to all who provide and produce the content. In Tarrance Kramer’s “Towerless Tribulations” article in April, he discussed...

Before I was an air traffic controller, I dabbled with computer programming. Both fields involve complex problems that are often broken down to simple...

Of all the features of the modern Automatic Flight Control System (AFCS), perhaps the most useful is altitude preselect. It improves safety by reducing...

After deciding I wanted as much redundancy—immunity from any single failure—as possible, and designing the systems toward that goal (See “Belt, Suspenders, Rope” in...

You can have too many choices, so many that decisions get delayed. It’s usually not a big deal for simpler matters like cruise altitude—estimate...

In aviation meteorology articles we often focus on the big problems: thunderstorms, heavy fog, low ceilings, and icing, all of which are responsible for...

As GA aircraft fly higher and higher, the risk of hypoxia increases. In August and September 2014, a Cirrus SR22T and a TBM 700...

I flew out of Boeing Field in Seattle and was assigned the CBAIN departure with fixes: GNEXX, KURRT, and CBAIN. If you depart in...

At first look, the title VOR or GPS RWY 13L/R approach presumes a straight-in approach to two runways or that the final approach...