What if a technology designed to save lives quietly became a tool to collect money? Louisiana has just taken a stand—and the rest of the aviation world should be paying attention. For years, ADS-B has been promoted as one of the biggest advances in aviation safety. It allows aircraft to broadcast their precise position, altitude, speed, and direction, giving pilots and air traffic controllers far better situational awareness. It is a safety tool—not a luxury. Now, there is some encouraging news from the United States. Louisiana has officially become the third U.S. state to ban the use of ADS-B flight data for billing aircraft owners. The move follows similar legislation in North Dakota and Montana. The concern is simple: ADS-B was introduced to improve safety, but in some places the same data has started being used to generate landing or airport fees. Many pilots and aviation organizations, including the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), have argued that this creates the w...
Still passing through the struggling phase of being a pilot, for the past few days I have been searching for a flight school near me that can cost me the least. Even though this is a big joke in itself, and I am the biggest fool to be expecting this, I don’t know what hope sprang up in me. I am only earning 45 thousand per month, and in this salary I cannot think of spending 10 lakhs on flight training at the present time. The option that I am considering is to go for microlight training or paramotor training. Flight schools near me that provide paramotor training are in Gurgaon, present Gurugram, or in Hisar, Haryana. These two options are only individual offerings and there is no formal institution as such. I am thinking what benefit I can have if I train myself in paramotor. Do airlines count or consider paramotor flying experience? (question) The two flying lessons near me that I mentioned, Gurugram and Hisar, are both charging 1 lakh for the training. This is more than two months ...