Lessons Learned: The World’s Most Reluctant Flight Engineer
Whether we deny, shrug or flat out cringe at the thought, most of us are saddled with a nagging shortcoming …
Explore Lessons Learned About Flying (and about life), where pilots share their first-person accounts of gripping flights gone bad, and how their skills and quick thinking allowed them to survive to fly another day
Whether we deny, shrug or flat out cringe at the thought, most of us are saddled with a nagging shortcoming …
It was April 2003, and I was reeling in the wake of the worst disaster of my young adult life …
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When my daughter was born, my flight instructing career had to become, for the most part, a standard 8:00 …
After decades of thinking about flight, in late June 2003, I finally took my first lesson. It was a great …
In March 2011, after seven years of flying, I felt on top of my game like never before. With about …
I’ve been flying as pilot in command of light airplanes pushing 40 years, and, yes, I’ve had my …
I grimaced and tried to suppress a groan as I braced myself atop the chain-link fence before throwing my …
When I was younger, and for the longest time, it seems, when I ate pizza, I would invariably burn the …
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