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 ...

Before electronic flight bags, pilots used either Jeppesen or NOS paper charts for instrument approaches. Jeppesen charts were considered higher quality but more expensive. Key differences between ...

The FAA plans to update aviation’s general flight rules section — Part 91.176 — with new performance-based guidelines aimed at improving flexibility for operators of aircraft equipped with an Enhanced ...

Precision, accuracy, stability – these are what a pilot wants in a precision instrument approach. The instrument landing system (ILS) has provided these qualities for years; however, the Federal ...

Richard Aedy: We begin in the air. If you've ever been on a plane that landed in poor visibility you don't forget it. The pilot's relying on instruments and using something called instrument approach ...

If a flight department acquires a helicopter, it will try to find as many ways as it can to make the aircraft pay for itself. If the company is sited so that an access helipad is practical and the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The first issue is to decide between an ab interno vs. ab externo approach. When treating glaucoma patients, the ...

The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) is awaiting a new solution from Rockwell Collins that will rectify previous issues with the software database of instrument approaches. NBAA said it ...