Pilar Wolfsteller

Preliminary findings reported by the NTSB, along with ADS-B data from the accident flight, show a flight instructor and a private pilot lost control of their Cessna 172N while attempting a night instrument approach to Lakefront Airport in New Orleans on N... See more

When you’re taxiing, there’s a lot to look out for: birds, other aircraft, service vehicles, foreign objects, signage, the windsock, the direction you’re traveling. You’re thinking about the flight ahead or the one you just completed. Your attention is mo... See more

AOPA’s Air Safety Institute documented statistical safety improvement in the thirty-fifth edition of the Richard G. McSpadden Report—formerly the Joseph T. Nall Report—which covers general aviation accidents in 2023. During that calendar year, the most re... See more

A recent flight took a friend and me to an airport about 30 miles away. We’d launched on a beautiful late summer morning, perfect for airwork and cross-country dead reckoning. We decided to practice some landings at the destination airport’s exceedingly l... See more

So you’re taxiing to the runway, you’ve got your checklist on your kneeboard, and you’re busy doing your normal, preflight, pilot things. Get the weather, call the tower for taxi clearance, set the instruments, check the brakes, and scan the area outside ... See more