NEW YORK - I started my aviation career when Ronald Reagan was president. If you do the math, that means I am coming up on 40 years as a pilot—and approximately half of that has been as a flight instructor, Meg Godlewski writes for Flying. Continue reading original article.
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3 December 2024 - Godlewski charts the changes to civil aircraft training over the past four decades, many of which encompass technological advancements in how pilots learned how to fly since the 1980s.
Godlewski noted that Bose's noise-cancelling headsets helped make the communications technology universal safety equipment and fatigue reducer.
Starting in 1983, the now-qubiquitous Global Positioning System technology was available to commercial airliners, with general aviation being able to utilize GPS in the '90s.
In addition, Godlewski writes about how transponder technology evolved into ADS-B [automatic dependent surveillance broadcast], which allows the aircraft to broadcast not only its position, but the tail-number.
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