Learn To Fly
Article: Upgrade Your Plane!
From time to time, Plane & Pilot embarks on a proverbial aircraft-upgrade project and chronicles the progress for the enjoyment and edification of readers.
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.
Article: Ticket To Ride III
Right after soloing in 860LS, the lovely Flight Design CTLS, I feel light as a cloud. In our
Article: Sporty’s Foundation: The Future Of Aviation
If we don’t get more young people interested in every aspect of general aviation, it will simply disappear as we know it,” Hal Shevers, the founder and chairman of Sporty’s Pilot Shop, tells me as he punctuates his sentence with a long pause and his...
Article: WAAS
The benefits of...
Article: A New License To Learn
Article: First 500 Feet, Part I: Engine Failure!
Article: TransPac Aviation Academy
Article: The Right Way To The Left Seat
Article: The Last 50 ft.
When...
Article: Personal Aviation At A Crossroads
Five years ago, the first special light-sport aircraft (S-LSA) received its airworthiness certificate, opening up a new chapter in the regulation of simple personal flight. More than 1,000 of these factory-built aircraft and more than 8,000 former...
Article: Controlling Control Pressure
Article: Sport Pilot Daze
Article: Going The Distance
As pilots,...
Article: Learn To Fly: Fun Things You Can Do With Your Certificate
Article: Instructors: Finding The Right One
The 26-hour student pilot...
Article: A Trainer With Attitude
As of two years...
Article: The Flying Siegfrieds
Every child remembers the...
Article: Pilot Career: From Dream To Reality
For the first time in...
Article: Ab Initio Training With A Touch Of Glass
If you were to drive across the country, you could point your car in the right direction and eventually you’d get to your destination, though perhaps not by a straight-line route. Before leaving, you’d need to consult a map to ensure that you’re headi...
Article: Pilot Careers 2008
Opportunities for professional pilots are...
Article: Fathers, Sons And Flying
For me, it all began a few thousand feet over some Michigan farmland about 40 years ago. We were somewhere between Detroit and Alpena when my father gave me a heading, told me to keep it straight and level, and then let me grab the yoke. I’ll never...
Article: Passion Breeds Success
Yesterday, as we were taxiing back for yet...
Article: Why Learn To Fly?
Pete runs a dental practice and learned to fly so he...
Article: Time To Get Typed
A few months ago, a friend who’s getting a Citation Mustang called and asked if I’d be...
Article: Home Sims Fly To New Levels
The world of flight simulation has...
Article: Learn To Fly: March 2008
To learn to fly is to step off the...
Article: Build A Plane Takes Off!
Recently, Plane & Pilot asked pilots if...
Article: Learn To Fly!
Learning how to fly means, among...
Article: Soloing At 14 Years Old
Jamail Larkins took his first...





