The current pilot certification system faces significant challenges due to a dwindling number of Designated Pilot Examiners (DPEs), leading to extensive delays and difficulties in scheduling essential ...

The T-7 Red Hawk is meant to teach student pilots how to fly fifth-generation aircraft such as the F-35. Air Force officials laid out their plans for teaching instructor pilots on the T-7, and then ...

In 2001, Ezzie Smith took his first flight lesson. He was a freshman in college, and he was given the opportunity to learn at a monthlong flight program in Delaware through an ROTC course. Within ...

New CFIs should boost employability by acquiring additional ratings like CFII or MEI and prepare for the demands of the job, including potential fatigue and a need to carefully select workplaces.

Independence Day proved to be an enormous headache for Americans as travel returned to pre-pandemic levels. Thousands of flights were delayed before the holiday, leaving hundreds of thousands of ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. - The Air Force is laying the groundwork to start incorporating the T-7A Red Hawk into its pilot training operations. But the service is still about two years away from the first ...