Aircraft designed with women in mind COPA, the Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association, organises several events each year where Cirrus pilots meet each other, receive (flight) training and are updated with the latest news. Recently I joined my husband to the ... Read more ...
How to Get your Wife to Fly with You – Part 1
6 June 2014 by
Flying Along I have the great privilege of being able to regularly join my husband on his flights throughout Europe in a small but fast aircraft. He is a private pilot and flies mainly for business. We often combine the business appointment with a visit to ... Read more ...
Flying on Supplemental Oxygen
28 May 2014 by
Flying on Supplemental Oxygen Jets and airliners utilise pressurised cabins, where the air pressure inside the aircraft is kept at an artificial low altitude at which altitude you do not need any supplemental oxygen. When flying in a non-pressurized aircraft ... Read more ...
VFR Addressing 2.0
24 April 2014 by
Good flight planning is important, but it is probably one of the most dull parts of flying. Well, actually that would be filling in the aircraft journal after flight. I always seem to lose that tiny little piece of paper on which I wrote down all the flight ... Read more ...
Satellite Communication in the Cockpit
3 April 2014 by
Satellite data communication provides pilots with valuable data while en route, such as information on the weather around them as this is evolving during their flight. There is a specific need for up-to-date weather radar and strike images while en ... Read more ...
Gagi Gagi Airfield Zimbabwe
5 February 2014 by
Right next to Lake Kariba you can still find quite a few lodges from the old Rhodesian times. Quite a few of these lodges were deserted, but some have been rebuilt or reopened again. One of them is Gachi Gachi Lodge with its associated and nearby own ... Read more ...
Belgian Aerodrome automates Tower Operations
26 December 2013 by
During a Cannes airshow I was presenting our aviation software in a booth right next to a booth dedicated to the aerodrome Saint Hubert with its visionary commandant, mr. Franck Dubarry. It was here that mr. Dubarry expressed his interest in finding good ... Read more ...