Night VFR flight, especially over remote areas or in conditions obscuring the natural horizon, significantly increases the risk of spatial disorientation and loss of aircraft control. A fatal accident ...

I enjoyed your recent article about night visual traps (Cause & Circumstance, June, page 68). A convincing case could be made that, unless you’re over a built-up area with lots of lighting, there ...

Night VFR takeoffs, particularly in "dark night" conditions where a visible horizon is absent, are significantly more hazardous than day takeoffs, with accident rates up to four to five times higher.

Diamond Aircraft’s DA20-C1 was granted expanded European Aviation Safety Agency type certification to include approval for night VFR operations, significantly increasing the aircraft’s use in the ...

In the past decade, aviation has made remarkable advancements in technology, in modern cockpits as well as those of legacy aircraft. Not that long ago, you would never have expected to see a ...

Australia is continuing the process of tightening the rules governing helicopter flights in the wake of the fatal 18 August 2011 crash of a Eurocopter AS355F2 Twin Squirrel at Lake Eyre in South ...