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Rising avgas prices mean aircraft rental rates are going up. Is your simulator pricing keeping pace, or leaving money on the table?

How To Price Flight School Simulators for Maximum Profitability Rising avgas prices may mean it's time to rethink your flight simulator pricing and what it signals to learners and flight instructors.

We had so much fun bringing our MCX to the Scouting America event with the Exploring Organization and watching these young explorers take the controls.✈️

The decisions you make before takeoff are often the ones that matter most. From weather briefings to personal minimums, strong preflight planning can be the difference between a safe flight and a dangerous situation.

The Decisions You Make on the Ground Save You in the Air Risk management and honest preflight planning prevent the chain of bad decisions that lead to accidents.

This past week, we spent some time at ForeFlight in Austin while they delivered their Pilot Proficiency Training, a workshop with the latest tools, tips, and workflows, from preflight planning to in-flight navigation and post-flight analysis, designed to help pilots fly more efficiently and confidently.

It’s easy to fall into a routine and let your mental discipline slip. The problem is that aviation doesn’t offer much room for error. Complacency degrades your safety margin until there’s nothing left.

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Why Experienced Pilots Fail: The Hidden Threat of Complacency Familiarity breeds laziness. Learn how to stay disciplined when your flying starts feeling like a daily commute.

Minnetonka High School is in year 3 of their aviation program, and with 330 students enrolled for year 4, the demand speaks for itself. When students go from 'I had no idea what I wanted to do' to landing discovery flights and eyeing aviation careers, that's the program working exactly as it should!

Minnetonka High School students learn to fly through school's Momentum aviation program High school students often have a range of classes they can choose from. Minnetonka High School's Momentum aviation program allows students to get hands-on, interactive lessons about all things airplanes.

Pilot Plus One featuring Right Seat Ready! is coming to Oshkosh this May 29–30 for a hands-on, team-based aviation safety experience designed for pilots and their right-seat partners.

Don't miss out and reserve your spot here: https://hubs.li/Q04f3J9x0

FAA Part 141 is being reimagined, and the impact could reshape flight training as we know it. During Migration, Jeff Wolf shared his insights on what’s changing, why it matters, and how it could transform schools, students, and the entire training pipeline in America.

Sporty's Pilot Shop 13 likes. "Where is Part 141 Headed? (Migration 2026)"

The decision not to go around has wrecked a lot more planes than the decision to go around. Yet pilots keep sticking with unstable approaches, trying to salvage them all the way to the ground. If you're trying to make an unstable approach work, maybe it's time to go around.

The Dangers of Sticking With a Bad Approach The go-around is a reset button that saves lives and airplanes. If you're trying to make it work on final, it’s already time to go around.

Five of the most influential leaders in aviation came together to talk about the issues keeping our industry up at night.

From the long-awaited implementation of MOSAIC and the race to replace leaded avgas, to the fallout from the DCA midair, the growing threat of ADS-B based landing fees, and the drone right-of-way battle brewing at low altitudes, this conversation covers the full landscape of where General Aviation stands today and where it's headed.

What's on the Horizon for General Aviation? (Migration 2026) https://migration.redbirdflight.comIn this panel discussion, five of the most influential leaders in aviation come together to tackle the issues keeping our ...