Answer: I too live in a rainy part of the world, and many of the aircraft I fly are kept on the ramp. The best way to keep water from getting in the fuel tanks is to make sure the rubber gaskets on ...

Anytime you learn a new skill, there will be a phase where you don't know what you don't know. Flying is a prime example of this. Expect the first manifestation to be when you are learning to do a ...

The other day I was reminded, once again, of the trouble with a preflight inspection: When you find something wrong, it’s too late to do anything about it. I was doing my routine run-up. My ...

The site of Sunday's South Korean budget airline Jeju Air's plane crash is being combed through by U.S. investigators, with some from the aircraft's manufacturer. All but two of the 181 people aboard ...

Lufthansa has developed a new iPad application that will “digitize” its pre-flight aircraft inspection process using Apple’s SwiftUI developer framework and Ditto’s peer-to-peer real time database.

The authors of preflight checklists are addicted to the “Windshield-check” or “Radome-check” format. The standard response of “check” does little to provide specific information that pilots should ...

The free augmented reality training in the Cirrus Approach app helps new Cirrus pilots learn how to conduct the preflight inspection. © Cirrus Aircraft ...

Working with NASA, company successfully tested autonomous inspection system on Boeing aircraft An Emirates Airlines Boeing 777-300ER is inspected by one of Near Earth Autonomy’s drones at the ...