Sport-Pilot Training
Our pilot training articles are designed to help you improve your flying proficiency. Bone up on beneficial skills as well as the biggest mistakes to avoid as a pilot. Fly right with articles on topics such as dealing with ice and the most dangerous things you can do as a pilot.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Learning To Fly 2.0: Cooler, Safer And More Fun Than EverBig changes in technology, manufacturing and design have changed the way we learn to fly Imagine it: You’re training for night cross-country flying. The evening is moonless VFR. Your weather briefing says your route is clear. The synthetic vision feature of your glass instrument panel displays everything—including the runway centerline—as if illuminated on a clear day. |
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Be A Great Pilot!Top tips for all aspects of flight The sheer enormity of the subject is a little intimidating. You probably could name several thousand characteristics of a “good pilot.” |
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Kings Of The SkySpend a day with John and Martha King and the hotly anticipated Cessna Skycatcher "So what are they like in person?” is the first question my pilot friends ask when I tell them I’ve spent a day with John and Martha King, the well-known founders of King Schools. |
Monday, November 2, 2009 The Checkride ChroniclesA year in the life of a designated pilot examiner Who’s the judge beside you in the cockpit, deciding whether you’re worthy of receiving aviation’s highest honor (a license to learn)? Hopefully, it’s someone who’ll make your entry into the world of aviation less than turbulent. |
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Flying The Friendly Skies: No Better Time!This may be the perfect time to achieve your aviation dream Success in aviation always has been a matter of perspective. Student pilots hoping for an airline career in the ’50s attributed their lack of success to the oversupply of military pilots emerging from the Korean War. |
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Staying CenteredIf you’re a pilot, there’s more to staying centered than transcendental meditation It was 1984, and I was ferrying one of the last of the Cessna 207s to South America. It was a midsummer afternoon in South Texas, and the mushroom cumuli were climbing high into the stratosphere all along the border and south toward the Gulf of Mexico. |
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 Top Mistakes In Convective EnvironmentsHow to stay safe in bad weather Deep, moist convection, better known as thunderstorms, are the nemesis of all aircraft, big or small. Avoidance is mandatory. |
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Flying The CorridorsVFR flight corridors serve a useful purpose in congested and some not-so-congested airspace VFR corridors have served an important function in U.S. airspace since the creation of the old TCAs (Terminal Control Areas) and TRSAs (Terminal Radar Service Areas), now less telegraphically renamed Class B and Class C airspace, respectively. |
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 Sporty’s Foundation: The Future Of AviationOne child at a time, Hal Shevers and his foundation are keeping aviation alive If we don’t get more young people interested in every aspect of general aviation, it will simply disappear as we know it,” Hal Shevers, the founder and chairman of Sporty’s Pilot Shop, tells me as he punctuates his sentence with a long pause and his piercing eyes. |
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 Formation Flying! Part IIThe cognitive challenges of flying lead Formation flying is a dangerous and, for me, compellingly beautiful and engaging experience. |
