Features
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.
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.
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. ...
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.
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.
Article: Balancing Skill, Entertainment And Safety
I’m an air show pilot who’s known for making my performances look dangerous.
Article: April 2011 Readback
A firefighting department based at 8,300 feet in the Ecuadorian Andes has acquired a Flight Design CTLS light-sport aircraft as its aerial support unit. Top Stories
Article: Paths To The Sky
In the seven years since FAA created the sport pilot/light-sport aircraft (SP/LSA) category, even with economic woes, nearly 2,000 LSA now grace America’s skies. ...
Article: There And Back
I had long aspired to circumnavigate Australia, but time and opportunity had proved evasive until recently.
Article: Midair Over The Hudson
As a result of its investigation of the August 8, 2009, midair collision over the Hudson River, the NTSB says it’s time for the FAA to improve the information it offers to pilots about avoiding collisions.
Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: 50 Years To Solo
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. ...
Article: Glass Versus Grass(roots)
The contradictions between the Cirrus and my normal ride couldn’t have been more extreme if I had been in the space shuttle.
Article: Training With A Passion
Aerobatic champion, air show superstar, Red Bull racer—Michael Goulian is all of these. But in his day job, if you will, he’s president of Executive Flyers Aviation, a second-generation flight school founded by his father, Myron, in 1964.
Article: Buy To Fly
Hello, can I schedule a lesson for Friday afternoon? No? You don’t have an airplane available?
Article: From The Editor: (Un)restricted
It was still dark, and Van Nuys tower had just opened when we took off on runway 16R for a right downwind departure toward the Mojave Desert.
Article: SpaceShipTwo Takes Off
I don’t know about you, but for me, flying in space has always been the ultimate goal.
Article: I Did It!
On a cool, crisp and calm October morning, I finally took my first solo flight. It was amazing! My journey to this point started almost three years before, in early 2007. ...
Article: Making History
Sixty miles northeast of Los Angeles, restricted airspaces R-2508 and R-2515 cover Rosamond Dry Lake, home of Edwards Air Force Base.
Article: The Many Roads To Aviation
Melanie Endsley never set out to become a jet pilot. “The plan was just for me to take some safety pilot lessons since I would be flying with a pilot friend in his jet,” explains Endsley.
Article: March 2011 Readback
Aircraft has sold six Piper Seminole multi-engine aircraft to Airline Transport Professionals (ATP), for airline pilot training. Top Stories
Article: Puerto Rico To Provo
At age 34, I added a flying trip to my dream list. It was a fly-in of 20 planes to Providenciales (nicknamed “Provo”) in the Turks and Caicos, an archipelago of nearly 49 islands and desert cays just 35 miles southeast of the Bahamas.
Article: Stop Squeezing Them In
Remember the circus act in which a dozen clowns get out of the smallest car you’ve ever seen drive into the center ring?
Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Your First LSA
With a tough year behind us and the bright hope of a better economic year ahead, I remembered our recent “Buy Your First Plane” issue and thought about first-time LSA owners.
Article: Screen Savers
Screen savers are a terrific invention—15-20 images of people, places and things that are dear to me rotate through mine like an automated scrapbook.
Article: The Flight Bag Is A Pilot's Best Friend
Ah, the flight bag. What, in the air-mail days, was a lowly canvas sack into which was stuffed a bedraggled map, a candy bar and a dime for a phone call if the weather got bad has become a cockpit staple.
Article: Headsets: The Critical Component
On a recent cross-country on a busy day in the skies above California, I got a firsthand look into the importance of a good headset, and how a headset that’s good in one airplane might be completely wrong in another.
Article: Aviation Handhelds
Not long ago, handheld devices for in-cockpit use broke down into neat categories: GPS moving-map units kept pilots from getting lost.
Article: Choose Your Own Adventure
So, you just hit the lottery for a half-million bucks (after tax). This sounds like a big deal, except that it’s redundant because your spouse hit it last week for 10 million.
Article: Choosing A Six-Seater
If it’s really true that buyers of four-seat airplanes often buy two seats more than they need, the same may not be true of purchasers in the six-place class. ...
Article: January/February 2011 Readback
On November 10, the FAA certified the Tecnam P2006T, a four-seat piston twin aircraft. Top Stories ...
