I still believe my instrument-rating check ride was my toughest, but then maybe it just seemed that way because the technology in the Cessna 172 I flew was pretty basic: two communications radios, two ...

Single-pilot IFR is the hardest thing most people will ever do. If you’re a heart surgeon, you might disagree, but for almost everyone else, there’s nothing that compares. The combination of high ...

Reaching the Red Bull Air Races meant committing to a full IFR cross-country. Clouds, low ceilings, and changing conditions removed the option of visual flying. Every approach, climb, and diversion ...

Earning an instrument and a type rating today still demands the applicant successfully fly a circling approach. Despite the FAA’s recent Advisory Circular (AC) 120-123 calling for an increased focus ...

This video shows a pilot flying a private IFR approach into a mountain airpark. The procedure isn’t published for public use ...

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The first LPV IFR approach in Europe was flown using a Falcon 2000, ATR 42-600 and Airbus A350. Falcon 2000 test pilots flying the first Egnos-enabled LPV-200 IFR approach to Charles de Gaulle Airport ...

Capstone GPS-based system will begin phase two tests this year with plans to extend technologies for phase three The US Federal Aviation Administration is to extend its Capstone free-flight technology ...