Of all the training a private pilot can take, the instrument rating is known for being the most intense and useful. [Credit: Adobe Stock] Instrument rating training focuses on controlling the aircraft ...

A pilot's heading indicator can help visualize runway orientation during VFR approaches to unfamiliar airports, even without a glass cockpit. By mentally extending the runway across the heading ...

All of them? If you're talking about a commercial airliner, then there's hundreds and hundreds. There are big, fat manuals describing what they all do. But, since you asked, buckle up. Every airplane ...

Canada’s Alpine Aerotech reports receiving FAA and EASA STCs for digita Bell 212 VFR flight instruments and will “price the kit aggressively.” Alpine Aerotech’s new electronic attitude and heading ...

Extant Aerospace has acquired the Electromagnetic Indicator product line from Astronautics Corporation of America. The unit on the left is a horizontal situation indicator. The others are attitude ...

When Duluth, Minn.-based Cirrus Design planned the cockpit for its piston-powered SR22, it sought a panel design that would bring familiarity and comfort to the general aviation (GA) pilot. In short, ...

Two Florida scientists have developed a unique approach to solving the problem of flight deck information overload, sometimes called "the tyranny of numbers." Their solution is a pilot display concept ...