Microsoft Flight Simulator offers an unexpected learning lesson by demonstrating aerodynamic icing in flight as it affects the pitot-static system. [Credit: Shutterstock] The Microsoft Flight ...

Jerry Williams is confident that when he flips an aircraft in midair or disables the cockpit instruments, his students can recover without careening to the ground. Rather than attempt dangerous ...

The AOPA Foundation High School Aviation STEM symposium emphasized aviation as an expedient method for teaching high school science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). At the symposium, Redbird ...

Not a substitute for actual flight training though ...

There's a free Google Earth Flight Simulator available now that you can pilot over 3D maps using a web browser.

A good flight simulator is way more than just a game. As flight sim technology has gotten more and more accurate, and realistic tools have become increasingly affordable, setting up a simulator at ...