I’ve longed use the Web and PC-based flight-planning tools to check the weather, lay out and file flight plans, and retrieve information about airports. Voyager, my favorite flight-planning program, a

James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic, has contributed a fascinating article, "Taxis in the Sky," about DayJet, a new on-demand flying service that uses the Eclipse Very Light Jet (VL

Like many pilots, I start watching the weather days ahead of planned trips. Unfortunately, the Outlook Briefings offered by Flight Service Stations and other official sources of aviation weather are a

The latest "Ask the Pilot" column at Salon.com is an evocative essay about the DC-8 and transatlantic flying in an earlier era, albeit one only 20 years ago. It's a good read, and a reminder of how qu

The flight school where I instruct is taking delivery of new DA40s (and updating much of its current fleet) with the latest iteration of the G1000 software, which includes WAAS and many other updates,