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Article: From The Editor: Something For Everyone

"I fly for food," was Dick Rutan's good-humored and modest response when I thanked him for flying the photo flight.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: The Nature Of Clouds

In my part of the sky—at least, the part I watch most often—we don't see many clouds.

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

Article: Coast-To-Coast

The faster I go, the harder I want to pull back on the yoke. The grey turns into blue, and all I see is sky.

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

Article: Instructing The Instructor

When you're a flight instructor, you're a combination shrink, drill sergeant, mother confessor and cheerleader; and, if you're a good instructor, you quickly realize that the act of instructing is teaching you more than you're teaching the student....

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Talk

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Snowmobile Engine...NOT!

Naw, it's got a snowmobile engine, I'm not flying one of those!" Odds are, if you've hung out a bit with experienced GA pilots, especially those who have plied the skies on personal wings for a while, you've heard that about the Rotax aircraft engine....

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

Article: Fire In Front

According to a search of NTSB data, in 2010, there were only four general aviation fixed-wing accidents investigated that involved in-flight engine compartment fires. ...

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

Article: Coast-To-Coast Javelin

Pressurization is something like power windows. Once you've lived with it for a while, you wonder how you ever got along without it.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: From The Editor: It’s Better In The Bahamas

With 700 islands, turquoise waters, postcard-perfect beaches, and 55 general aviation airports, The Bahamas is undoubtedly a pilot's paradise. Recently, Plane & Pilot joined the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism and Aviation on a flying trip to three...

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: Flying Fifi

My most memorable flying experience was on September 20th, 2011, when I got my copilot checkout in Fifi, the only flying Boeing B-29.

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

Article: Fuel Imbalance

Most pilots know what it feels like when an airplane is wing heavy because there's more fuel on one side than the other.

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

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Where Everybody Knows Your Name, Part II

Last month, you met Chris Dillis, who took the "friendly clubhouse" atmosphere common to European VLA (very light aircraft) flying and brought it to his own LSA startup in Denver.

Also labeled: Features, Journeys, LSAs, Pilot Talk

Article: A Personal Journey

The green fields, most looking as if you could land a 747 on them, stretched off into the distance, where they became low, gently rolling hills. ...

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Talk

Article: From The Editor: Maverick Has the Ball

To commemorate the centennial of naval aviation, Plane & Pilot Publisher Mike McMann and I journeyed to Naval Air Station Lemoore. We spent our day with strike-fighter squadron VFA-122, at the controls of an F/A-18 simulator, on a hangar...

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: The Thrill Of Solo

I'd like to say I remember my first solo experience as if it happened only yesterday, but in truth, yesterday was a long time ago, and the memory isn't that vivid. ...

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: Safe Turnarounds

Over the years, I've made frequent mention of a controversial number: "safe turnaround altitude."

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

Article: The Ted Stevens Accident

The NTSB says cockpit recorders might have helped shed better light on exactly what happened in the accident in which former U.S.

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

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Where Everybody Knows Your Name

The success of the long-running Cheers TV show, I’m convinced, came in no small part from the seductive lines in that great theme song that so well captured the spirit of the show.

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

Article: Oshkosh By Any Other Name

Yeah, I know: It’s officially AirVenture. But to a lot of folks, the name just hasn’t clicked.

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Talk

Article: From The Editor: A Pilot’s Pilot

More than 500,000 people and 10,000 airplanes took part in the annual aviation mecca that is EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: The Value Of Corporate Time

Back in November 2008, when the CEOs of Chrysler, Ford and General Motors flew to Washington to ask for a government bailout, congressmen made much of the fact that the executives had all used corporate jets for the trip.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: A Whole New Flying World

A fellow pilot once asked, "How long does it take to check out on skis?"

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Careers, Features, Guest Speaker, Learning Center, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk

Article: Broken Brakes

Not too long ago, I was looking forward to an hour or so of poking holes in the sky in a Piper Cherokee 180.

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk

Article: Pressure’s On...Or Is It?

It's 95 degrees, and sweat is dripping down my face. The box suddenly seems impossibly small.

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

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Gag Reel

To help with my recent write-up on what's great about owning and flying LSA, I had the pleasure to jaw with several owners, from teachers to pleasure flyers. ...

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

Article: Critter Delays

Gulfstream Eight Charlie Charlie, go around. The airport is temporarily closed.

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Talk

Article: From The Editor: Over Water

It never seems to matter what headset I'm wearing—when I'm flying over a large stretch of water, I can hear every single sound that the engine makes. ...

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: Should We Rely On GPS?

Ido some post-maintenance test flying for a Cessna 300/400 shop in Long Beach, and a month or so back, I got a call to fly a 421 just coming out of an annual inspection. ...

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: Battle Over Frigid Seas

Aviation has always been a part of my life, but only recently has it become my profession. (function(){ var flashvars = {affiliateSiteId:"85996", widgetId:"495443", mediaType_mediaID:"video_1609639", width:"420",...

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

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