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...

In recent years we have heard of many forced landings that went wrong sadly too often claiming the lives of the occupants. So, what...

With all the current hype about Angle of Attack indicators, a casual observer might think the concept was just discovered. But as any...

At a recent CAA roadshow, held at the River Club, Observatory, one of the invited guests, Danie Heath, of ATNS, gave a presentation on...

There are lots of great reasons to fly at night, and pilots who choose to should embrace it and learn more about it. For starters, the...