Pilot Talk
Adventure Is In The Eye Of…
 Elsewhere in this issue, we’re bantering around the phrase “adventure aircraft” as if it’s a universally understood term. Personally, I’m not sure it is. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I think the term “adventure” itself is ope |
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Contact: Strummin’ On The Old Banjo
| If you think banjos and DC-3s have nothing in common, you have yet to meet Dan Gryder. With a penchant for impromptu bluegrass sessions under the wing of his legendary aircraft—or anywhere, really—the witty Boeing 777 pilot and his team offer one-of-a |
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Decision Shock? Poppycock!
 In keeping with the buyer’s guide theme, I got to thinking about the epidemic of choices modern consumers face every day. There was a time when you’d walk into a fast-food place and order a burger, fries and Coke, and if you really felt like living la |
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Flight I’ll Never Forget: Entering A New Era
 It was one of those cool fall mornings with low, scudding clouds. The kind where you keep blowing on cold, damp hands while loading the airplane and glancing occasionally at the leaden skies, the north country’s harbinger of imminent seasonal change.
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From The Arctic To The Tropics
 It’s cold. It’s white. And it’s north. (Very north.) Underneath us is 10,000 feet of ice. Surrounding us is an additional 1.7 million square kilometers of ice, and not much else. Looking out the cockpit window, I can’t tell the difference between |
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From The Editor: Milestones & New Beginnings
 You may have noticed something physically and visually different about this issue! Starting this year, Plane & Pilot will feature higher-quality paper, with a larger overall size than ever before.
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From The Editor: No Sleep Till Touchdown
I’ll never forget the first cross-country flight that I was on. I sat left seat as we departed the Los Angeles Basin, headed north for the coastal hamlet of Shelter Cove, Calif. After reaching cruise altitude, my right-seat companion, who was the aircra
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From The Editor: The Sky's Not The LImit
| I first met Lina Borozdina at Oshkosh in 2005, when Richard Branson and Burt Rutan announced a joint venture between Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites to manufacture a fleet of suborbital spacecrafts intended for space tourism. Lina, a biochemist who |
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From The Editor: Zivko Edge Phone Home
“Spot Check OK. Latitude: 37.7445. Longitude: -97.224,” read a text message on my cell phone, and I knew that contributor Bill Stein had made it safely in his Edge 540 to Wichita, Kans., the final stop on his cross-country flight from Chicago, Ill.
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Parachute Jump Operations
 This past September, the NTSB completed a special investigation on accidents involving aircraft used in parachute jumping.
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Renewal
 In most recognizable respects, the trip was hardly unusual. It was just an easy 280 nm hop from Long Beach to Groveland, Calif., for a speaking engagement before the Pine Mountain Lake Aviation Association, a typical out-and-back, 1+50 hop in the LoPresti |
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