Pilot Stories
Enjoy pilot stories? Our Pilot Talk section is full of informative and entertaining flying tales from accomplished pilot authors.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 Light-Sport Chronicles: Little AirportsGreen fields, blue skies, white clouds—LSA heaven, here I come! Behold the home of the $100 hamburger, the remnants of a life gone by, when linen-covered, nitrate-doped biplanes landed in potato fields and took small-town kids for rides on balmy summer days. |
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 Buyer BewareWhether it’s a new or used airplane, don’t rush when doing your prebuy inspection You might think that FAA airworthiness, inspection and record-keeping requirements virtually guarantee that any airplane you buy is going to be in superb condition. |
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 The Power Of Electric FlightBridging the continents, bridging the generations What’s the next big leap in aviation? I think about this stuff all the time. |
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Memories Of The SwiftMy first airplane was a Swift—and I survived Okay, right up front, in an attempt to stop short any angry letters from Swift owners, I loved my little Swift. |
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 From The Editor: Make Your Own Runway I’ve always admired—and envied—bush pilots. |
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 The Good Old Boys Club...NOT!Sometimes becoming one of the guys is easier than it looks Do you remember when life was slow enough that we used to sit around in front of the hangar, the sun making us feel like reptiles soaking up the warmth, before bundling ourselves into our respective flying machines to go test fate? |
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Light-Sport Chronicles: Staying The CourseToo many songbirds, not enough bird seed–what to do? Recently, a gentleman e-mailed me who had invested a ways back in an LSA company, not because he expected to become the next Piper, Flight Design, Rans or Legend Cub, but because, in his own words, "I just love airplanes." A lifelong financial professional, he wasn’t after a fortune—except maybe the proverbial small one from a big one. He just loved airplanes. |
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Great Places Not To Have An AccidentDon’t spend so much time looking at scenery that you neglect to look at flight necessities One of the truly wondrous things about general aviation is the ease with which you can reach vacation sites that would be a hassle via road, ferry or airline transportation. |
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Canyonlands By CherokeeLearning the Utah backcountry In 2007 I had been going to Moab, Utah, for four years—hiking, running and sightseeing—and I was 20 years a pilot with my own Cherokee 140. |
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 Really Low On FuelA dark and stormy night in Alaska Early in September of 1977, a fellow Alaska registered guide asked me to fly some avgas to a hunting camp he operated on the west side of the Alaska Range. |
