Flight Training

Article: Uphill/Downhill Landings

What are the best conditions for landing uphill/downwind or downhill/upwind? It may seem dangerous to land into the wind but downslope on a snowy runway; yet landing upslope with a tailwind seems equally precarious.

Also labeled: Advanced Ratings, Getting Your License, Learn To Fly, Learning Center, People and Places, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Proficiency, Warbirds

Article: From Tailwheel To Turbine

Bill Stewart, until recently a lapsed pilot, sounds like something between a fighter jock and a kid in a candy store as he recounts his latest aerial exploits on the ramp at Chicago’s Aurora Municipal Airport (ARR).

Also labeled: Advanced Ratings, Getting Your License, Learn To Fly, Learning Center, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Warbirds, Proficiency, Pilot Safety

Article: Be A Great Pilot!

The sheer enormity of the subject is a little intimidating. You probably could name several thousand characteristics of a “good pilot.” The she...

Also labeled: Advanced Ratings, FAA Regulations, Getting Your License, Learn To Fly, Learning Center, People and Places, Proficiency, Safety

Article: Kings Of The Sky

"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.

Also labeled: Advanced Ratings, Features, Learn To Fly, Learning Center, People and Places, Proficiency

Article: The Checkride Chronicles

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.

Also labeled: Advanced Ratings, FAA Regulations, Getting Your License, Learn To Fly, Learning Center, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Proficiency

Article: Flying The Corridors

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.

Also labeled: ATC, FAA Regulations, Flight Hazards, Learning Center, Navigation, Accident Statistics, Decision Making, Safety

Article: University of North Dakota/Aerospace

Most aviation insiders feel that the University of North Dakota (UND)/Aerospace is to aviation what Harvard is to law and business, partly because of its technologically advanced...

Also labeled: Flight Schools, Jobs and Schools, Learn To Fly, Learning Center, Rotorcraft