Aviation Insights & Expert Guides

A commercial pilot certificate takes 250 flight hours under Part 61. Not 1,500. The 1,500-hour figure people quote belon...

Most pilots will never hear "ESCAT is in effect" over the radio. But on September 11, 2001, that changed. In under 90 mi...

A war breaks out on the other side of the world. Within hours, flight routes that handle thousands of passengers a day s...

There are places in the sky where no aircraft is allowed to go — not a commercial jet, not a small Cessna, and definitel...

Planes circle the globe every single day. They cross oceans, deserts, and mountain ranges without much fuss. But one pla...