General aviation ( GA ) is one of the two categories of civil aviation.

General aviation flights range from gliders and powered parachutes to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights.

General aviation is particularly popular in North America, with over 6, 300 airports available for public use by pilots of general aviation aircraft ( around 5, 200 airports in the U. S., and over 1, 000 in Canada ).

General aviation involves a wide range of aircraft types such as business jets ( bizjets ), trainers, homebuilt, aerobatic types, racers, gliders, warbirds, firefighters, medical transports, and cargo transports, to name a few.

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General aviation pilots use dew-point data to calculate the likelihood of carburetor icing and fog, and to estimate the height of the cloud base.

General aviation includes all non-scheduled civil flying, both private and commercial.

General aviation may include business flights, air charter, private aviation, flight training, ballooning, parachuting, gliding, hang gliding, aerial photography, foot-launched powered hang gliders, air ambulance, crop dusting, charter flights, traffic reporting, police air patrols and forest fire fighting.

General aviation airports in the county include Castle Airport, Gustine Airport, and Los Banos Municipal Airport.

General aviation airports in Mono County include Bryant Field near Bridgeport, Mammoth Yosemite Airport and Lee Vining Airport.

General aviation airports in Solano County which are open to the public are the Nut Tree Airport and Rio Vista Municipal Airport.

General aviation services are also provided at the Joseph A. Hardy Connellsville Airport.

During World War II, the head of the U. S. Army Air Forces, General of the Army ( later General of the Air Force ) Henry ' Hap ' Arnold, directed all flight surgeons in the Army Air Forces to fly regularly with their patients in order to better understand the aviation environment.

The airport is also used to a lesser extent for general aviation, housed at the General Aviation Building ( GAB Terminal ).

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