The article criticizes modern flight training for teaching pilots to fly excessively large traffic patterns, which are inefficient, consume excessive time and distance, and create spacing problems. It ...

Despite their rarity, mid-air collisions (MACs are most common near airports, particularly in traffic patterns, where pilots' attention is often focused on the runway or inside the cockpit. To ...

A band of large drones appears to be flying nighttime search patterns over northeast Colorado — and local authorities say they don’t know who’s behind the mysterious aircraft. The drones, estimated to ...