Every human – including weather forecasters and pilots - is liable to make errors. Therefore, the pilot should identify the risks that...

Your propeller has just stopped, and “things” just got very real! Your aircraft has been transformed from a powerful beast to a very...

Lack of oxygen is the greatest single danger to man at high altitudes, despite the importance of pressure and temperatures. The shortage...

I am well aware that I am preaching to the converted here but this article is meant to be informative so pilots can know of the dangers...

With the rainy weather and low cloud we have been experiencing recently, many pilots may start suffering from withdrawal symptoms. We all...

Thunderstorms can really mess up your day this time of the year but if you kept the plane in the hangar every time, they appeared in the...

Search and Rescue is one of the relatively unknown services in the aviation fraternity, usually because the pilots don’t ever want to...

We have published this before but as we in the Northern Provinces of South Africa are currently experiencing heatwave conditions it is of...

We’ve all heard the old saying, “there are two kinds of pilots, the ones that have done a wheels-up and those that are still going to”. I...

A ballistic parachute is a parachute ejected from its casing by a small explosion, much like that used in an ejection seat. The advantage...