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Article: Sharing General Aviation

Working for Uncle Sam in Naples, Italy, prevents me from often seeing my family in the U.S.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Skills

Article: Accepting A Bad Situation

While a pilot needs to evaluate the consequences of making any decision, he or she needs to know that revising a decision is likely to make a bad situation even worse. ...

Also labeled: NTSB Reports, Pilot Talk, Accident Statistics, FAA Regulations, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Profiles In Vision, Randall Fishman

In 2007, a man no one in aviation had ever heard of walked onto the field at Oshkosh, strapped himself into a motorized hang-glider trike and took off. ...

Also labeled: Features, Journeys, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: Lightning!

Perhaps the most active thunderstorm area of the world is Darwin, Australia.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: Excellence In Execution

I've dedicated my entire adult life to the art form of air-show flying.

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Features, Guest Speaker, Learning Center, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk

Article: Getting A Few Winks

Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt led the outcry of indignation when news broke that the lone controller on the overnight shift at Reagan National Airport (DCA) in Washington had fallen asleep

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, FAA Regulations, Features, NTSB Reports, People and Places, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk, Proficiency, Safety

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: The “Stork” Flies Again

Weird, cool, authentic, bizarre, eccentric, spectacular: so begins my Adjective Hit Parade to describe the Criquet Storch.

Also labeled: Features, Journeys, LSAs, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: From The Editor: When Weather Gets In The Way

Each cross-country flight is an adventure, but when things don't go as planned, it doesn't have to become a misadventure.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: Low Level By Columbia

What had begun as a simple, 4,500 nm, late-winter ferry flight in a capable airplane had deteriorated to an ignominious retreat.

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Talk

Article: Emergency Maneuver Training Changed My Life

While working as a waitress at the local airport restaurant, I met and married the owner of CP Aviation, Clay Phelps.

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Careers, Features, Guest Speaker, Learning Center, People and Places, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Scoping The Numbers

Every year about this time, I like to catch up with Mike Adams, the ever-helpful Vice President of Underwriting at Avemco Insurance Company, to take a gander at LSA accident trends.

Also labeled: Features, Journeys, LSAs, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: How Tight Is Tight?

Prominent on its list of Most Wanted Safety Improvements for 2011 is an assessment by the NTSB that the FAA needs to speed up improvements to procedures and equipment in order to help eliminate runway incursions.

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, FAA Regulations, Features, NTSB Reports, People and Places, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Proficiency, Safety

Article: Destination Unclear

The little Piper PA-22 lifts off in a fraction of the runway at Council (K29), 60 miles east-northeast of Nome in western Alaska.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk

Article: Jack

We were somewhere in the middle of the desert heading for my daughter's when my cell phone rang.

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Talk

Article: Inspiration To Africa

During World War II, I was a ferry pilot, flying military aircraft for the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA).

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Careers, Features, Guest Speaker, People and Places, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk

Article: When Not To Go

There's a sign-in guestbook in the pilot's lounge at Avitat in Bangor, Maine, that contains the names and missions of most of the international ferry pilots who have come through here in the last 30 years.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: From The Editor: Cross-Country

No matter how much you love to fly, 14 hours of flight in one day is a long time. That's how long it took Cirrus pilot Matt Bergwall and me to return to California from Sun 'n Fun.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: I Do It Because...

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things." —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Talk

Article: Adding Air Bags And Harnesses In The Air

Prominent on its list of Most Wanted Safety Improvements for 2011 is an assessment by the NTSB that the FAA needs to speed up improvements to procedures and equipment in order to help eliminate runway incursions.

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, FAA Regulations, Features, NTSB Reports, People and Places, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk, Proficiency, Safety

Article: Always A Student

Would today be the day? I had been taking lessons for several weeks, and I knew that one day soon, my instructor Andy would get out of the airplane, and let me fly solo. I had even worn a special T-shirt for the last three lessons, with the hope that...

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk

Article: From The Editor: Super Owner

Michelle Kole wasn’t sure what kind of airplane she wanted to own.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: There’s No Such Thing As Tailwinds

I know what some of you may be thinking. Bill Cox has finally gone off his rocker.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: From Spitfires To Mosquitoes

During World War II, I was a ferry pilot, flying military aircraft for the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA).

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Careers, Features, Learning Center, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk

Article: Keeping It Real

I’m weaving my Bell Jet Ranger helicopter through the labyrinthine Hong Kong skyline.

Also labeled: Gadgets, Handheld Gadgets, Navigation, Pilot Resources, Pilot Supplies

Article: Cub Butt

The contradictions between the Cirrus and my normal ride couldn’t have been more extreme if I had been in the space shuttle.

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Talk

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Flight Of The Navigator

It’s the Babe Ruth of airplanes, the home-run standard against which we measure and judge all other airplanes whose company we’ll ever have the pleasure to keep.

Also labeled: Features, Journeys, LSAs, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: Close Calls On The Runways

Prominent on its list of Most Wanted Safety Improvements for 2011 is an assessment by the NTSB that the FAA needs to speed up improvements to procedures and equipment in order to help eliminate runway incursions.

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, FAA Regulations, Features, NTSB Reports, People and Places, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk, Safety

Article: Canada By Cub

I’m the kind of guy who’s not scared to try new things. When I would fly my RC plane, I always thought how nice it would be to sit behind the controls and have freedom. ...

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk

Article: Flight Recorder For The Little Guy

I like to think pilots read accident reports out of a sense of self-preservation rather than ghoulish curiosity.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: From Mountains To Deserts

With massive tundra tires, a welded tubular steel fuselage frame and seating for five, the tailwheel version of Expedition Aircraft’s bushplane lives up to its formidable name: Bigfoot.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk