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Modern autopilots are a huge boon to the general aviation pilot.
Sitting at home one recent weekend, I didn’t have an air show, but I sort of wished I were at one.
Just as East Coast pilots count the Bahamas as something of an ultimate getaway, Left Coast aviators consider Alaska to be the destination of choice.
It was the kind of weather that causes Wisconsinites to choose to live here year around…crazy people that we are.
Can the pilot really be expected to know everything about what has been going on?
Having been there so many times, I found myself seeing the grounds much the same way I see my old hometown.
Like so many kids who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, I was fascinated by space travel. Most of the kids I knew in Alaska had the same fascination.
For years, people suggested I start an aerobatic school, but I hemmed and hawed about it. It seemed like a lot of work for little money.
Over the last 20 years or so, there has been a revolution in general aviation (GA) audio, with noise-cancelling headsets and stereo entertainment systems that bring studio-quality music to pilots and passengers.
Great weather, a stunning line-up of aircraft never seen before at Wittman Field and the hunger to be part of the World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration powered EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015 to a record-breaking year, continuing its recent upward trajectory.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued a Safety Alert to pilots emphasizing the importance of not forgetting about an old-fashioned, low-tech approach to maintaining separation from other aircraft, even while adopting advanced technology throughout the cockpit.
After you’ve reached a certain age, when you get an email with a friend’s name in the title, you know that the news is never good.
Flying down from Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, your course line slowly merges with Australia’s east coast as you sneak in from the left.
Recently, the NTSB came out with its 2015 “Most Wanted” list of transportation safety improvements. At the top of the list was “Loss of Control.”
Here’s hoping your summer flying fun continues for many weeks to come!
A local pilot who reads these columns recently called me for advice.
The NTSB might have had in mind the situation I faced when it issued a new Safety Alert notifying pilots of the importance of performing thorough preflight checks when flying an aircraft for the first time after maintenance.
The student was driving, and we had just been given clearance to take off.