Preflight checks are a mandatory and critical safety element for all aviators, enforced by FAA regulations (e.g., 14 CFR § 91.103) to ensure flight safety and prevent accidents. These "flying checks" ...

Just as a pilot performs a number of system checks on the airplane before take off, it’s important to make sure that a print project doesn’t contain any serious errors that will prevent it from ...

Create a checklist of steps to ensure positive implementation of drone technology initially — and ongoing success for the long run. While design has long been digital, the physical world has not. Now ...

Now that travel is slowly resuming as more states relax coronavirus restrictions, airlines are adding another health safety measure. United Airlines and Alaska Airlines said this week that they will ...

Question: I’m training to be a pilot and my CFI keeps hounding me to use the checklist, especially during the preflight inspection. But when I flew with another CFI and we were going over engine ...

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How comfortable would you feel hearing an announcement like this the next time you took a flight somewhere: “Apologies for the delay, ladies and gentlemen. This is your captain speaking. It seems I ...

At DeKalb-Peachtree Airport, 18 kids huddled around and sat inside a few Cessna 172s as pilots from Georgia Tech’s Yellow Jackets Flying Club took them through pre-flight checklists. The pre-flight ...