Pilot Stories
Enjoy pilot stories? Our Pilot Talk section is full of informative and entertaining flying tales from accomplished pilot authors.
My Secret
How teamwork makes for the best job in the sky
 I have a secret that I’m going to let fly with the aviation community. |
Listen Up!
Bull sessions can sometimes impart valuable lessons
 All of us will reach a stage in life when we’ve lost or are losing friends (as they slip away physically, mentally or both). |
Pilots N Paws
Here’s a way for pilots to help save the lives of some of our best friends
 Like many of you, I’ve owned dogs for as long as I can remember, probably longer. |
From The Editor: The Wild West
 We’re following the map, but as we pull into Lake Isabella’s South Fork boat ramp, Marc Lee and I aren’t sure we’re in the right place. |
Light-Sport Chronicles: Three From The Heart
Of inspiring flights, parachute saves and electric flight from China
 Weeks into the New England summer season, which, as of July 4, is more like an extended March, I’m feeling a serious need for some LSA speed. |
Blocked Pitot Tubes
When accessible, pitot tubes and static ports should be checked in every preflight
 The crash of Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330, in the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, during a flight from Brazil to Paris focused attention on pitot tubes, although many people had never heard of them before. |
Flight I'll Never Forget: Cross-Country Cubbing
A visit to the annual Lock Haven fly-in
 Some things in life make sense. Others do not. For instance, flying a 65 hp, 75 mph cruise J-3 Cub 650 miles from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania does not, by most definitions, make sense. |
Ferry Flying As A Career?
It’s not the glamorous life everyone thinks it is
 I receive more e-mail and snail mail from readers about ferry flying than on all other subjects combined. |
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Any taildragger pilot will tell you that you can take a Husky out of the backcountry, but you can’t take the backcountry out of a Husky.
Why are we so fascinated by flight? What draws us to it? What makes flight so special?
