Cross-Country Flying Stories
Cross-country flying stories from Bill Cox offer fantastic insight into what pilots face on long distance flights. Dig into our X-Country Log today.
To Korea, With Luck
Four legs, 52 flight hours in one of the world’s most comfortable—and slowest—turboprops
 My buddy Jeff Kopps of the National Weather Service in Monterey, Calif., had predicted headwinds out of Santa Barbara, and as usual, he was right. |
When Slower Is Better
The whole point of most airplanes is speed—except during landings
 Contrary to sometimes misinformed opinion, a Mooney is one of the easier airplanes to land. |
Caravan To Seoul—The Prequel
Here’s what happens before you fly the ocean
 If you saw Jurassic Park, then you may remember the scene where Jeff Goldblum describes chaos theory as a mathematical discipline where the results of any given problem are never totally predictable, no matter how carefully conditions are controlled. |
The Paranoia Of Landings
Landings aren’t the most important thing, they’re the only thing—not
 I had been hired to fly a Cessna 340 from Torrance, Calif., to Glasgow, U.K., on an Atlantic tour with the owner in the right seat. The first four days of the trip had gone well. We had departed Torrance, stopped in Denver and made it to Ohio the first day, then managed to have lunch in Bangor and fly on to Goose Bay the second day. |
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. |
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. |
From Hero To Bum—Almost
You can learn from your mistakes…if you can just survive them
 It was January 1989, and I had just delivered a new Grand Caravan to Comair in Johannesburg, South Africa. |
Dodging The Tornados
“Oh, by the way, could you drive a new T182 back from Lakeland, Fla., to Long Beach, Calif.?”
 There are worse jobs in aviation. It was during the last two days of Sun ’n Fun 2009 that I got the call from Tom Jacobson of Tom’s Aircraft in Long Beach. |
Singapore By Bonanza
Flying a Bonanza to Singapore offers an education in “managing” thunderstorms
 He was a regular reader of this space and he called a while back wondering if I’d be interested in ferrying his pristine A36TC Bonanza from El Monte, Calif., to Singapore. Gee, lemme think about that for 30 seconds.
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Traveling By “Corporate” Airplane
A local breakfast flight emphasizes the value of corporate aviation
 I’ve owned personal airplanes almost since I earned my pilot’s license 43 years ago. I didn’t buy my first airplane, a Globe Swift, specifically for business (in fact, I don’t recall ever flying it in conjunction with a story), but most of the half-dozen airplanes I’ve owned since have been employed primarily in pursuit of profit. |
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