"The pilot knew the instructor well and thought he was just pretending to take a nap whilst the pilot flew the circuit," the report states A pilot thought his flight instructor was pretending when he ...

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A flying instructor died during a private flight last year, according to a new safety report. The pilot thought his instructor was "just pretending to take a nap," before realizing he was dead. A UK ...

A flying instructor died inflight after suffering a cardiac arrest, but his co-pilot thought he was fooling around and only realized after landing on the runway with the man slumped on his shoulder.

GAA board and FAA recognize Mike Jesch, Mike Kloch, and Roger Whittier for their commitment to safety, instruction, and ...

HARRISON, N.Y. -- The man killed in a small plane crash on I-684 near New York's Westchester County Airport has been identified as Yankele Friedman, a 32-year-old flight instructor who was with a ...

I received a call from a recruiter for a regional airline who had stumbled across my CFI résumé someplace. As I have well over 1,500 hours, he wanted to know if I would like to fly for it. "No, thank ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View of the wreckage of a Cessna 172S that crashed near Chilliwack on April 5, 2025. (Credit: Transportation Safety Board of ...

When teaching a private pilot ground school, one of the first questions you ask is, “Why are you in this class?” It is an important question because motivation is a key factor in how quickly someone ...