Despite modern navigational apps, proficiency in filing and activating flight plans, and obtaining flight following remains a checkride requirement for private pilots, as per Airman Certification ...

First solo cross-country flights should ideally be to airports previously visited with an instructor, allowing for demonstration of PIC abilities and navigation skills (pilotage, dead reckoning, ...

As the four-hour, fifty-three-minute journey wears on, a few get up to stretch their legs and visit teammates. Flight ...

Starting today, American Airlines will have a new vegan menu item on its cross-country flights, according to PETA.

It started as a simple cross-country flight — until a SIGMET for severe turbulence changed everything. The smooth air turned ...

A Leominster man who tried to open an airplane door and stab a flight attendant on a cross-country flight to Boston in 2023 has been sentenced to time served. Francisco Severo Torres, 34, received a ...

A Massachusetts man was sentenced Tuesday to 26 months in prison for attempting to stab a flight attendant in the neck with a broken metal spoon and trying to open an airliner’s emergency door on a ...

Cara Daly, 15, spoke with the passenger one letter at a time in his hands. A California teen who recently helped a fellow passenger aboard an Alaska Airlines flight using sign language said today that ...

It’s just past 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sep. 13 at Inter&Co Stadium, and Bay FC has secured its first point against the reigning National Women’s Soccer League champions, Orlando Pride, with a hard-fought ...

Question: I'm training to be a CFI, and I'm wondering how you know when your learners are ready to go on their first solo cross-country flight? I know about cFAR 61.87 that covers solo requirements ...