Airplane owners know the dread -- that Number 10 envelope in the mail from the Federal Aviation Administration.…
If an IFR aircraft which precedes you into the same airspace ceases to communicate with ATC for whatever…
Winter's coming (or here), and that means ice. If you were merrily motoring along and suddenly noticed ice…
As you are about to flare for landing, just when you reduce propeller rpm, you feel a slight…
We've had a number of accidents at a nearby airport with a "short" runway. The reason I say…
Don't look now, but we're living through the beginning of another upheaval, of sorts. Along with the more…
If you knew only your true airspeed and your angle of drift from the wind, is it possible…
Sometimes it's hard for experienced pilots to remember what it was like to be wide-eyed with the newness…
What was the origin of the now universally applied unit of measuring speed, the knot, in determinations both…
The average age of the U.S. general aviation fleet is already past 30 years, according to the Federal…
The FAA requires many aircraft to display N-numbers that are a foot high. Which of the following are…
Let's say right now you're in your 20s, and you want to learn to fly. Unless you're among…
If you've read my work here, you know that I respect Mother Nature. She is the force that…
I strongly suspect that I'm just one of the many among the subjugated masses of aviators yearning, figuratively…
I have been learning to use the new technology and along the way I have discovered a few…
How many times have you found yourself at the airport looking at another pilot and thinking, "Man, that…
A pilot who desires to retain instrument currency may use a first Personal Computer Aviation Training Device (PCATD)…
I told you last summer that I would give the new technology an honest try (Trying not to…
True or false: a blind person has successfully piloted an aircraft (an airplane) through takeoff, cruise flight, and…
Although some tend to view these paths as being somewhat divergent, with the former sometimes seen as the…
Avgas is colored by the use of a dye to indicate its octane and lead level. True or…
The way people work with machinery, or to say it better, the way machines work with people is…
Until that defining moment which comes to some of us at some point during our training (somewhere between…
On approach to landing at one of several airports in the Detroit metropolitan area, you hear ATIS Information…
Marshalling aircraft is one of the most thankless tasks that linemen must perform. Often overlooked during pilot training,…
We are all trained to prepare a plane for landing. Generically, this includes the reduction of power to…
The number of hours of flight instruction needed for a flight review, regardless of whether it is through…
True or False: A private pilot with an airplane, single-engine land rating can always be guaranteed to receive…
All this talk about proficiency: we never seem to give it a rest, do we? For example, let's…
In July 2001, 13-year old Cody Clawson was hiking with his Boy Scout troop in Yellowstone National Park,…
I don't know if it was Chuck Yeager, Tom Wolfe, or anyone else in particular that should earn…
LIFE CAN BE HARD AS A PILOT. Take Bob for example -- he had a problem. It was…
From the North Pole, one can only go southward. Not being the trusting type, rather than following the…
My previous series of articles was written to help pilots stay "ahead" of the airplane, but if you…
The absolutely and undeniably first woman pilot in the whole world was...
Moving up to larger, more capable, aircraft can be intimidating, but airplanes are airplanes and some simple truths…
Two pilots walk into the waiting room of an Aviation Medical Examiner to renew the medical certificates that…
I'm really not trying to be an old-fogey about this, but I guess I can't help myself. My…
Learning to fly is something very few people ever do, and we all take pride in our own…
Pilots have enough problems in the dynamic flight environment without making things worse on themselves. But sometimes pilots…
After an aircraft experiencing an emergency, what four types of aircraft or situations come next, on the pecking…
While en route at 4000 feet, ATC issues you the following advisory: "Flock of small birds, twelve o'clock,…
Pilots are confronted with an inflow of information (radio communications, spotting other traffic, flight and engine instruments, etc.)…
An airplane with leaky fuel caps is sitting out in the rain. How long might it take each…
Of the following early airmail pilots, who doesn't belong? Charles Lindbergh, Elrey Jeppesen, Leonard Brooke Hyde-Pearson, or George…
Where ever you are - be there! This is a direct quote from Mr. Joel Smith who is…
Just as the greater relative proportion of one substance introduced into another can improve the effectiveness of a…
In-Flight! was a weeklong summer workshop designed to show minority high school students what it was like to…