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.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 Zen & The Art Of Airplane FlyingAirplanes and motorcycles may be more alike than you think I’m one of those apparently strange folks who believe that flying is an easy skill to learn. No, that’s not because I do it so well. |
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Memories Of AlaskaThe Far North is one of the most popular vacation destinations for pilots Once or twice each summer, I slip into the right seat of an airplane and help a pilot fly to an exotic destination, most often across the Atlantic from North America to Europe. |
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 Stamp Out CFITTruth is, not everybody learns from their mistakes It was mid-1977, and I had been assigned a story on the first production model of a new twin. |
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 What’s Up With WAAS?WAAS is the third generation of GPS, and it makes all the difference I was fortunate to discover GPS early on. I was on my way to the 1991 Paris Air Show in the one and only prototype Swearingen SJ30 business jet, and had stopped for fuel in Greenland. |
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 To Korea, With LuckFour 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. |
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 When Slower Is BetterThe 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. |
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Caravan To Seoul—The PrequelHere’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. |
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 The Paranoia Of LandingsLandings 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. |
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Pilots N PawsHere’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. |
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 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. |
