Startup spotlight: Skyfarer connects pilots with flight training, aviation services and airplanes in one place

Skyfarer is building a marketplace that connects pilots with flight instructors, mechanics, examiners and aircraft across all ...
FLYING Magazine

Ascend Flight Training Summit Aims to Transform Pilot and Instructor Education

Joint venture between AeroSummit and NAFI focuses on career readiness, networking, and professional growth in flight training ...

Airline Pilot Has Mid-Flight Medical Crisis, Prompting Emergency Landing: ‘I Am the One Who’s Ill’

Delta Flight 437 made an emergency landing in Detroit when its captain became ill mid-flight on Tuesday, safely grounding the ...

‘I Need to Go to the Hospital,’ Delta Pilot Tells Air Traffic Control

A Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to Boston safely diverted to Detroit after the captain of a Boeing 757 became ill.
USA Today

Why an airline pilot training is 'similar to a specialist surgeon' | Cruising Altitude

Pilots undergo rigorous training, accumulating hundreds of flight hours and passing numerous exams. Automation is changing pilot training, requiring pilots to master technology while maintaining ...

Pilots and Flight Attendants Face a Real Cancer Risk. Frequent Flyers Shouldn’t Panic

Air crew have more radiation-related cancer deaths than any other profession, write Vishal R. Patel, Christopher Worsham, and ...

Flight attendants and pilots have highest risk of dying from radiation-linked cancers, study says

A new study reveals that flight attendants and pilots face the highest risk of dying from radiation-related cancers, even ...

Pilots, flight attendants have greater risk of radiation-related cancer death than other professions

Of more than 500 occupations in the United States, flight attendants and pilots have the highest and second-highest ...