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Article: Expand Your Iceberg

I was a stick-and-rudder pilot with very little knowledge of instrument flying. Steeped in flying wires, tube and fabric, I never thought I'd need or want an instrument rating.

Also labeled: Aviation News, Careers, Flight Schools, Flight Training, Flying Skills, Learn To Fly, Learning Center, Passenger Comfort, Pilot Skills

Article: From The Editor: Plane On A Mission

When we ask pilots what their dream airplane is, we rarely receive a one-airplane reply.

Also labeled: Columns, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: A Summer Of Opportunity

After going to an air show in Canada and a competition in Wisconsin in 1983, I knew that flying aerobatics was what I was meant to do.

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Careers, Columns, People and Places, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk

Article: The Forgiving FAA

I called up Flight Watch crossing the Colorado River at Lake Havasu and learned that most of the Los Angeles Basin was rapidly deteriorating toward IFR minimums. ...

Also labeled: Columns, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: 10 Perfect Airplanes For Special Missions

Don't believe those naysayers who continue to claim aviation's glass is half empty.

Also labeled: Aircraft, Classic Airplanes, Warbirds

Article: Weather Avoidance Techniques

Today, a wide range of tools are available to help avoid those dangers, but each has limitations that must be understood in order to use them safely. ...

Also labeled: Weather, Weather Flying, Flight Hazards, Flying Skills, Proficiency, Safety

Article: Minimal Experience

Browse through the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs), and you'll see specifications for experience in many areas of piloting.

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

Article: I Wanna Build...

All of us have curious habits that we'd just as soon have no one know about.

Also labeled: Columns, Pilot Talk

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Sport-Pilot Survey Says! Part III

In our first two summaries of LSA pilot opinion, we covered the LSA Who/What/When/Where basics.

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

Article: 10 Flying Techniques From Great Aviators

One of the great joys of this job is that I've been allowed to interview and get to know some of the most interesting pilots in aviation.

Also labeled: Aviation History, Aviation Personalities, Flight Training, Flying Skills, People and Places, Pilot Talk, Top 10s

Article: Risky Business

How risky is your next flight? ...

Also labeled: Decision Making, Flying Skills, Pilot Safety, Safety

Article: The Life Of An Air Show Pilot

If you love what you do, you're not really working, but being an air show pilot is a mixture of hard work and hardly working.

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

Article: April 2013 Readback

Cirrus Aircraft's new 2013 SR22 and SR22T feature an increased certified gross weight to 3,600 pounds, which allows an extra person, extra baggage or cargo while carrying more fuel. Generation 5 Cirrus

Also labeled: Aviation News, Gear, New Products, Pilot Gear, Pilot Supplies, Product Previews, Special Offers, Top Stories

Article: From The Editor: Panhandle Backcountry

Northern Idaho is an adventure pilot's dreamland, with dozens of backcountry strips, stunning mountain flying and sizeable lakes perfect for seaplanes. ...

Also labeled: Columns, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: There’s Something About Mountains

The Pan-American Highway threads its way steeply uphill out of Santiago, Chile, climbing into the rarified air of South America's high Andes. ...

Also labeled: Columns, Pilot Talk

Article: Islands In The Slipstream

Many things draw people from around the world to the 700 islands that make up the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, off the southeastern coast of Florida. ...

Also labeled: Adventure Flying, Aviation Resources, Flying Outside The U.S., People and Places

Article: Swap-A-Plane!

You can swap your house, timeshare, antiques and collectibles. So why not swap airplanes?

Also labeled: Adventure Flying, Aviation Resources, Flying Outside The U.S., People and Places, Shared Ownership

Article: 10 Tips For VFR Flying In Marginal Weather

It was the classic example of baby- bird stupidity.

Also labeled: Flight Training, Flying Skills, Learn To Fly, Weather, Weather Flying

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Sport-Pilot Survey Says! Part II

Last month, through our survey, we met our group of respondents and found out what light-sport aircraft (LSA) they fly.

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

Article: When Close Friends Get Too Close

One of the great things about aviation is that people are drawn together by this unique avocation as if they were members of a fraternity or sorority. ...

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

Article: Warbirds And Me

Does any one actually not like warbirds?

Also labeled: Columns, Pilot Talk

Article: Kenya

I love early mornings in Tsavo. ...

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

Article: The Way Of Active Winglets

Fortunately, airplanes don't deal much in real mousetraps, but every once in a while, someone comes along and invents a better one.

Also labeled: Aircraft Upgrades, Gadgets, Modifications, Pilot Safety, Safety

Article: From The Editor: Sky Therapy

For some, lying on the sofa in a counselor's office is therapy.

Also labeled: Columns, People and Places

Article: Flying Alone

Like most new pilots, I began my career renting airplanes and flying with as many friends as I could to mitigate the cost.

Also labeled: Columns, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: A Visit With Aspen Avionics

On a vast mesa west of Albuquerque, N.M., where the signs of civilization begin to dim, the terrain looks not unlike the surface of Mars.

Also labeled: Avionics, People and Places, Pilot Supplies

Article: Learning To Fly: All About Priorities

The big secret in aviation is that just about everybody goes into it because it's more fun than should be legally allowed, and not because it's practical. ...

Also labeled: Aviation Careers, Flight Schools, Flight Training, Getting Your License, Learn To Fly, People and Places

Article: March 2013 Readback

Arnold Pistorius from Pretoria, South Africa, recently completed construction of his Lancair Evolution in Redmond, Ore. From Oregon To South Africa

Also labeled: Aviation News, Gear, New Products, Pilot Gear, Pilot Supplies, Product Previews, Special Offers, Top Stories

Article: The Reno Accident

The chances are minimal that most pilots will ever find themselves in the same circumstances as did James "Jimmy" Leeward on September 16, 2011. ...

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

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Sport-Pilot Survey Says!

Sometimes, I like to douse my assumptions and fantasies with a cup of cold, real-world info about the kinds of LSA flying all you folks are actually doing, versus what I might imagine you're doing.

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