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September 10, 2024

Piston Aviation Shows Off Light-Sport Trainers

Program Cranking Out Pilots With Style

Piston Aviation exhibited several of their light-sport trainers at the Midwest Aviation Expo in Mount Vernon, Illinois. The aircraft’s attractive designs easily stood out in the crowd. Piston’s training approach emphasizes not only mastery of flight but also leadership skills, intending to prepare their students to handle complex responsibilities and challenges.  

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Embry-Riddle Supports STEM Education, Research Using UAS

Daytona Beach Campus Collects Data In Coastal Environments

Dr. Nickolas “Dan” Macchiarella is a professor in the College of Aviation at the Daytona Beach Campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. His academic specialty is the application of sensors on Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS). The work of Macchiarella and his students supports the COASTech program by conducting research on the coastal environments and educating the public.

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Sporty’s Modernizes Its Learn to Fly Course

New Features Revise and Simplify the User Experience

Sporty’s recently finalized its mid-year upgrade to the Learn to Fly course. In this, several new features and lesson amendments were intertwined with the curriculum. The Sporty’s lesson kit serves as a ground preparation resource for student pilots worldwide. The company has been partnered with the EAA’s Young Eagles program for over 15 years, allowing youth to gain access to the Learn to Fly course at no charge. It utilizes videos, animations, and test practice to teach the basics of flight. So far, over 155,000 Young Eagles have taken part in this opportunity.

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FAA Announces $1.9 Billion In AIP Grants

Additional $269 Million For Supplemental Discretionary Grants

The FAA announced on September 6 the distribution of $1.9 billion in 519 grants for airports in 48 states, Guam, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands under the Airport Improvement Program.

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NTSB Final Report: Cessna 172S (A1); Sonex Aircraft Xenos (A2)

Fragmented Sections Of The Outboard Left Wings Of Both Airplanes Were Found In A Field Below The Point Where The Two Flight Tracks Merged

Analysis: The flight instructor and student pilot took off in a Cessna airplane from their home airport and proceeded north to a practice area to perform practice maneuvers. The Sonex pilot departed from an airport east of the practice area about 5 minutes earlier and proceeded westbound toward the vicinity of the Cessna. Both airplanes climbed to 7,000 - 7,500 ft mean sea level (msl) and operated under visual flight rules (VFR). When the Cessna reached the practice area, it made a left 360° turn consistent with a clearing turn, which according to the flight school was standard procedure.

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Finally, A Drone that Feels Like The Future is Here

An Affordable Videographer in a UAV Package Begins Shipping October 8th

DJI unveiled the Neo, a light weight, palmtop camera operator to give creators a streamlined way to capture 4k UHD video on the go. The Neo is hyper-focused on video creation, ensuring that it keeps extraneous design features to an absolute minimum. It's designed to be small and portable, so creators can tuck the Neo away and break it out to film without the usual song and dance that comes with calibration. That's indicative of the Neo's mission as a close-up videographer: Neo wants to orbit its operator, and it has little interest in straying away from them to see what else is going on around them. Standard mods include 'Follow, Expanse, Circle, and more', all selections that

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