Pilot Stories
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Setting The SelectorIn some aircraft, you have to be a contortionist to see where the fuel-tank selector is pointing If you've flown a variety of aircraft, you know that some designers decided to make it awfully difficult to see for sure which fuel tank or tanks you've selected. |
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Flying The World’s Biggest Single-Engine BiplaneAn open letter to all who have asked, “What’s the weirdest airplane you’ve flown?” One of the most common questions I get has to do with the most unusual aircraft I've flown. |
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 From The Editor: The Best Of Both Worlds Monument Valley, on the northern border of Arizona with southern Utah, is pretty much in the middle of no-where. |
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 On Getting ShortGravity is the universal enemy in more ways than one Getting short" is a familiar old military term: You're coming to the end of your deployment or enlistment, and you don't have much time left before your life will be drastically altered. |
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Light-Sport Chronicles: Sebring ImpressionsLights, cameras, action: what a great way to start the LSA year! I thought those of you who have never been to an air show, specifically the Sebring U.S. Sport Aviation Expo, might enjoy a world's-eye view of what it's like to make the pilgrimage every January. |
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Drinking, Driving And FlyingJust the prospect of facing FAA paperwork should make one think twice about misusing alcohol When FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt resigned after being arrested by police in Fairfax City, Va., on a drunk-driving charge, some of my pilot acquaintances were quick to express astonishment at the irony of Babbitt himself likely having to face the bureaucratic hurdles set up by the FAA for pilots caught drinking and driving who want to continue flying. |
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 When Procedures FailLearning the lesson the hard way Pilots are a conscientious group. We do preflights, use checklists, and respect our physical and technical limitations. |
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 Murphy’s Laws Of AviationWhy what you learned in flight school may be open to question I'm constantly amazed that the constants of aviation usually aren't. |
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 From The Editor: Traffic, Gray Whale. 12 O’Clock, Low. On a recent sunny Saturday, contributor Marc Lee and I decided to fly from the Los Angeles area to Santa Barbara for lunch. |
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Unplanned ObsolescenceAntiquity is strictly a point of view Every so often, something will happen that reaches out and raps you in the noggin, and makes you realize how fast time is ripping past. And how quickly something that's familiar and simply secondhand to you becomes exotic and antique to a new generation. |
