Thu, Jan 7, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - January 7, 2021 - News from throughout the general aviation community. Vietnam Vets reunited with their Huey, the major aerial asset of the conflict. Pattern work in a TBM simulator. Surprising dad with a flight after 22 years.
Thu, Jan 14, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - January 14, 2021 - Civil Air Patrol pilots talk about their vaccine delivery mission; AOPA Editor at Large Dave Hirschman and his brother Harry fly an AirCam from Nevada to Maryland. Going missed on an instrument approach in the Idaho mountains.
Thu, Jan 21, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - January 21, 2021 - Flying the Hudson River - a visual how-to with a pro pilot who learned there. Saving Dillingham Airfield - Hawaii's beautiful treasure. The RV-10 Sweepstakes winner has been picked, but AOPA Editor at Large Dave Hirschman won't tell us who it is.
Thu, Jan 28, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - January 28, 2021 - See how we surprised the new owner of the AOPA Sweepstakes Van's Aircraft RV-10. Also in California, a socially distant flying travelogue. And see what it's like to get your instrument ticket in six days at IFR6 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Thu, Feb 4, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - February 4, 2021 - The 2022 AOPA Sweepstakes Tiger - a Grumman classic that is coming soon to an AOPA member. The 2020 RA Bob Hoover Awards honoring Burt Rutan and other greats. Pilots learn how to earn a multi-sea rating in a Beech 18.
Thu, Feb 11, 2021
OPA Live This Week - February 11, 2021 - The NTSB rules on the Kobe Bryant helicopter accident. Air Safety Institute boss has his own take . We fly the Cessna Longitude, and take a look at Cessna's newest business jet. We remember the man who lead the massive B-29 flyover of Japan.
Thu, Feb 18, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - February 18, 2021 - Learjet and Terrafugia depart the fix. FAA's new top doc promises to do much better in processing medical certificate applications. A pilot getaway to a tropical paradise that doesn't require a passport.
Thu, Feb 25, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - February 25, 2021 - NASA makes another landing on Mars. Piston aircraft sales stay strong in 2020. Learn more about the woman who made GPS possible. Flying the Chicago skyline. See a new training device: a variable view limiter.
Thu, Mar 4, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - March 4, 2021 - A silicon brain fighter takes to the air. Flying exercises your CFI never taught you, but they could save your life. What does it take to step up from a single-engine turboprop to a jet? The FAA slaps down two airports, and the general aviation community gathers to pay its final respects to Mike Collins, AOPA's Technical Editor and Director of Business Operations for its publications, whose aviation writing career spanned nearly three decades and literally around the world.
Thu, Mar 11, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - March 11, 2021 - Born on opposite sides of the world 24 years apart, shared passions and adversities explain how Adrian Eichhorn and Shinji Maeda became fast friends. Also, a scenic trip to Cape Cod, and a progress report on aviation education in high schools.
Thu, Mar 18, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - March 18, 2021 - Flying the fabulous canyon lands in and around Moab, Utah. The risk to people on the ground from an aircraft accident. Teens learn to soar and much more. Women in Aviation (WIA) International go virtual.
Thu, Mar 25, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - March 25, 2021 - A warm welcome on a grass strip, with a museum to boot. A nonprofit has set up aircraft builds in many high schools where students learn to fly what they fabricate. NTSB wants more regulation of air tours and balloon rides. Piper CEO steps down.
Thu, Apr 1, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - April 1, 2021 - A checkout in an iconic amphibious aircraft, the Grumman Widgeon. Eating our way through Chicago foods. Shooting an IFR approach down to almost minimums in the mountains. A special Ohio pilot turns 100.
Thu, Apr 8, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - April 8, 2021 - See why airspeed is no longer relevant if you can visualize angle of attack, a data recording retrofit for your airplane. The NTSB updates its list of most-wanted safety improvements. Meet Virgin Galactic's Spaceship III.
Thu, Apr 15, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - April 15, 2021 - The first major airshow in over a year. We report from Sun 'n Fun 2021. An AOPA Live exclusive: Oklahoma investigators arrest a woman accused of ripping off pilots seeking medical certificate guidance.
Thu, Apr 22, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - April 22, 2021 An electric twin to compete with the King Air is announced. A quick visit to the newest airport in the solar system. It's a great job with a lot of challenges; aerial photography in the highly restricted airspace around Washington DC.
Thu, Apr 29, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - April 29, 2021 - Winning a Second-In-Command (SIC) type rating in a B-25 Mitchell Bomber. Spot landing in TBM single engine turboprops. Remembering Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot and first director of the National Air and Space Museum Michael Collins.
Thu, May 6, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - May 6, 2021 - Two Bonanza pilots launch together, one is going around the North Pole, the other is going around the world. The future of air mobility, and why airports are critical to it. Getting back together after the pandemic.
Thu, May 13, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - May 13, 2021 - We take a look at an award-winning Cessna 150 that appears factory fresh yet faithfully vintage, ride with a hot air balloon-flying family, and catch up with a new private pilot whose career involves explaining astrophysics.
Thu, May 20, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - May 20, 2021 - VRM Switzerland's certified virtual reality helicopter simulator. 124 flight training scholarships awarded. Honoring the late Mike Collins, AOPA magazine editor and writer. Flying a factory-new Cessna 150.
Thu, May 27, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - May 27, 2021 - We climb aboard a rescue flight with one dog and 13 cats, then visit with an author who painstakingly researched a 1962 ditching in the stormy North Atlantic. Also, see the new HondaJet Elite S and take a scenic Bonanza flight over Washington.
Thu, Jun 3, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - June 3, 2021 - Flying the Tecnam P2006T, amongst the newest designs in the country. Rescuing sea turtles with general aviation airplanes with "Turtles Fly Too." Studying the impossible turn: how well does YOUR airplane do?
Thu, Jun 10, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - June 10, 2021 - AOPA pushes back hard on a legal view that puts the flight training industry in jeopardy. Also, an 18-year-old pilot crosses the country in a Piper Cub, and visiting a unique aviation museum in Kentucky.
Thu, Jun 17, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - June 17, 2021 - Fly along for a lesson in a high-performance jet, visit with the author of a novel about the first African American and Native American woman pilot, preview what'll be new at EAA AirVenture. We talk to a glider pilot who took turns around a funnel.
Thu, Jun 24, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - June 24, 2021 - Check out an airplane that can cruise the flight levels at 300 knots and yet be flown under BasicMed. Also, the avionics industry convenes in Dallas for a conference, and a very sentimental barn find is discovered.
Thu, Jul 1, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - July 1, 2021 - Take a Sentimental Journey back to where the Piper Cub was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. A teenager flying around the world in a Cessna 172 solo. A blow-up canoe you can take in your airplane (maybe).
Thu, Jul 8, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - July 8, 2021 - A YouTube series about gourmet cooking while airplane camping. (The world's best meatloaf - made in a farm field!). Getting your sea wings in an ICON. A family trip to the Thomas P. Stafford Air and Space Museum. A troubling series of DA accidents.
Thu, Jul 15, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - July 15, 2021 - Mark Baker is ticked at the FAA. See what has him hopping mad. Two millennials buy an airport and turn it into a slice of heaven. Richard Branson rides Rutans rocket, and that's no canard. Live ATC added to sim flight, including AirVenture arrival.
Thu, Jul 22, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - July 22, 2021 - The Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet G2+ now has more thrust, and better connectivity. Watch Blue Origin make Wally Funk an astronaut at last. Also, reflecting on five years of BasicMed and its impact on the pilot population and community.
Thu, Jul 29, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - July 29, 2021 - From AirVenture 2021: New airplanes, including the Diamond DA50 RG, Mike Patey's Scrappy, the Blackshape Gabriel. E-VTOLs fly at Osh. Form camp in T-34 Mentors. Yes, AOPA is aware of technical issues with the audio, and thank you for your understanding.
Thu, Aug 5, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - August 5, 2021 - We wrap up our EAA AirVenture coverage with firsthand perspectives from the show and further glimpses of aviation's future. We also celebrate a century of aerial application in Leesburg, Virginia, with pilots.
Thu, Aug 12, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - August 12, 2021 - Greg Swingle had a long drive to the airport and enough land for an airstrip. Also, inspiring women and building confidence in Frederick, Maryland, and work becomes fun for an editor assigned to AeroShell team.
Thu, Aug 19, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - August 19, 2021 - August 19 is National Aviation Day. We celebrate a milestone of 300 high schools using the STEM curriculum. Flying in to a grass strip in Ohio. Mountain flying instruction in the Tetons. Getting unleaded fuel to Reid-Hillview Airport.
Thu, Aug 26, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - August 26, 2021 - A National Aviation Day to mark the 150th Birthday of Orville Wright, as well as his sister, Katherine. Flying the amazing Kitfox Series 7 STi. Using aviation to serve others through public benefit flying.
Thu, Sep 2, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - September 2, 2021 - General aviation to the rescue again in Hurricane Ida's aftermath. The King (Air) is crowned. We fly the King Air 360. Adventurer Victor Vescovo says being a pilot made it all possible. AOPA's Aviator Showcase is a hit. Another supersonic aircraft.
Thu, Sep 9, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - September 9, 2021 - AOPA leaders reflect on how they worked after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to restore the freedom to fly. Also, we probe for history with metal detectors, and see how a rare, wrecked Turbo Seminole was restored to a showroom shine.
Thu, Sep 16, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - September 16, 2021 - Fixed-Base Operator (FBO) Transparency win - Atlantic Aviation agrees to post fees on its website. Dream Flights takes WWII Vets up in a Stearman. Flying in the backcountry near Bentonville, Arkansas.
Thu, Sep 23, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - September 23, 2021 - Tough and ready for the backcountry. We fly Bearhawk kitplanes. The highest airport in the east. A reprieve for threatened Dillingham Airfield in Hawaii. A World War II B-17 pilot flies a Cessna Citation M2 as he's honored for his service.
Thu, Sep 30, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - September 30, 2021 - The Legacy Flight Academy inspired dozens of youth at one Virginia airport, while another drew its share of enthusiasts to see a gaggle of aircraft, automobiles, and boats. Also, Congress works to fix the flight training debacle.
Thu, Oct 7, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - October 7, 2021 - A PT-17 Stearman tries to take-off from a roadway. It goes horribly wrong. Avionics jump into the cloud. Latina pilots pay it forward. This is not your fathers view-limiting device for practicing IFR.
Thu, Oct 14, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - October 14, 2021 - Honda Aircraft's big reveal was the talk of the town at NBAA. We visit with Bill Anton and his impressive backcountry Bearhawk. Captain Kirk AKA William Shatner blasts off to the edge of space. We take a look at the Cessna 340 crash in California.
Thu, Oct 21, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - October 21, 2021 - Come with us to the High Sierra Fly-In at Dead Cow lakebed, full of beauty, friends, and lots of playa dust. Join Arizona pilots on a vital blood delivery flight. Take a look at the future of urban air mobility and a more affordable way to fly.
Thu, Oct 28, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - October 28, 2021 - We fly the King Cub, a Super Cub beefed up with a 210 horsepower IO-390, take you behind the scenes of STOL Drag(Short Take Off / Landing), and give you a look at Honeywell's cloud-connected Anthem flight deck.
Thu, Nov 4, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - November 4, 2021 - The FAA is expected to announce a 2nd Class Medical requirement for commercial balloon operators. Flying the VL3. Chatting with creators of a First Person View (FPV) drone air to air with a Beechcraft Bonanza.
Thu, Nov 11, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - November 11, 2021 - Dario Costa takes us behind the scenes of his 44-second pass through two Turkish highway tunnels in a Zivko Edge 540, we mark Veterans Day with our own salute, and Garmin collects its Collier Trophy.
Thu, Nov 18, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - November 18, 2021 - AOPA continues to fight for fair and sane aviation insurance rates. It takes a pickup truck, a harness, and steady hands to get these spectacular flying videos. Why Maine is a great state for floatplanes.
Thu, Nov 25, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - November 25, 2021 - Professional pilot training programs report an upswing as air travel demand rebounds, and an estate auction puts nearly two dozen aircraft- and other "barn finds"- on the block. Plus, the voices of the Super Sabre, we're thankful for their service.
Thu, Dec 2, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - December 2, 2021 - Two classic flying boats go head-to-head for bragging rights on this week's show, a Cessna Skylane sporting more glass instruments than we've ever seen in a piston single and flying supplies to the Navajo Nation.
Thu, Dec 9, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - December 9, 2021 - Hop in a Husky for some beautiful flying in Montana. Hear the story about a successful emergency landing after an engine failure in Hawaii. Officials in California are stopping the sale of 100LL at two airports, find out what AOPA is doing to help.
Thu, Dec 16, 2021
AOPA Live This Week - Honoring Mike Fizer's AOPA Career - You know his work, and likely his name. We know him as a beloved colleague. After more than three decades, Mike Fizer is moving on from his Senior Photographer role at AOPA. We look back on his career and hear the inside stories behind his work.