Up to this point in my long and storied career as a student pilot, I have experienced regular…
This morning, after about 30 hours dual, I soloed a J3 Cub. Quite an interesting experience! I knew…
This was, perhaps the most thoroughly planned trip ever made in an airplane, aside from Lindberg’s and the…
I had my first night flight last night and it was a BLAST! I managed to get all…
I have been away for 3 week due to poor weather in New England and my normal CFI…
I have been away for 3 week due to poor weather in New England and my normal CFI…
Hello all, I did my second dual cross country. Here’s the details for anybody who’s interested (long). I…
I got back yesterday from my first very long cross-country (four days) flight with a friend who is…
Day 1, April 18 – St. Joseph to Brinkley, Arkansas I had read too many flying books. First…
I had the trip to the 1994 convention planned for at least six months prior to departure. I…
Back in the early eighties, I was renting a Super Decathalon in southeastern PA (New Garden Airport) to…
Flying at 500 feet above the sprawling farmlands of Southern Maryland and traveling at 525 miles-per-hour, Colonel Don…
It was a day in the fall of 1975. Rain and poor visibility in the forecast and I…
In the very early sixties, when the Evil Empire was actively testing the limits of its power, I…
Twenty miles out of Allegheny County, enroute to Boston through the haze of western Pennsylvania, I decided to…
This year I was determined to fly to Oshkosh. I had done it once before, eleven long years…
They say that in your first hundred hours you’ll do something that will scare the wits out of…
As a traveler, I frequently find myself in the company of strangers whose companionship I find myself obliged…
Prolog: The following is a journal of a transcontinental trip that I took in a Cessna 172L (150…
Everyone has practiced engine out procedures. You do it when you are learning to fly, and it happens…
It will be the culmination of everything flying should be. A flight that will be a short hop…
Byers, Colorado, a dusty hamlet 40 miles east of Denver, is an unlikely site for a miracle. Hard…
“Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings…” Sometimes it…
Attached my story of a wee adventure enroute to/from Oshkosh ’95 The flight to Oshkosh was going well.…
(This article was first published in Flight Training magazine in 1995) Given the media’s penchant for turning aviation…
Miyamoto Musashi, one of the greatest samurai swordsman of feudal Japan, approached his assailant–an enemy of the emperor.…
It’s the G’s that get you, they pull and tug and beat on you and eventually wear you…
I passed my instrument practical test yesterday, and here’s the story. I tell it to assist others in…
How long can a pilot who has little or no instrument training expect to live after he flies…
Helicopter training is being done all over the world. There are various schools to choose from. The training…
Background: I had been working on the requirements for the IFR ticket since March of this year. My…
I waited for two weeks for this checkride. My DE, Peggy Naumann who flies with the United Airlines,…
I’d like to share the story about my first tastes of flying a glider. This is a long…
A helicopter is one of the most versatile aircrafts ever built. It can be used almost anywhere on…
“Affirmative – 07Papa is declaring an emergency at this time” There I was, 5000 msl 4000 agl with…
Having soloed three times, I now need to get the written out of the way. The “written” is…
I finally cut the field umbilical cord last Sunday(7/12/97). Here’s the scoop. The Texas Soaring Association (TSA) has…
1) possibility of loss or injury : PERIL 2) someone or something that creates or suggests a hazard…
In St. Petersburg this afternoon there was a celing at about 2000′ and rain was just south but…
When I got back from my second dual cross-country, I was annoyed when my instructor suggested we do…
How do I get myself into these situations? I asked myself. As I made my way up the…
The engine fell silent as all eighty horses busted out of the corral at the same moment. The…
I flew from Salem OR, to Baker City (in the mountainous area of Northeast Oregon) this week on…
NASHVILLE, TN: July 9 — Pouring rain woke me up at about 7:30; only about thirty minutes earlier…
Today December 6, 2008 was my private pilot checkride, completely by accident. I went up at eight in…
Sometimes when an instructor or another pilot gives you advice, you might hear yourself saying, “I’ll never have…
The skies over Northern New Mexico are no longer safe because I just passed my checkride!!!! Woo hoo!…
First let me set this story up with a very important fact. I passed the written exam in…