For no less than 50 years, pilots have relied on the Flight Guide Airport and Frequency Manual for airport information while flying cross-country …
April 2012
How Low Should You Go?
The indiscretions of youth. It’s all too easy to examine stupid pilot tricks and dismiss them as functions of …
Drinking, Driving And Flying
When FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt resigned after being arrested by police in Fairfax City, Va., on a drunk-driving charge …
Light-Sport Chronicles: Sebring Impressions
I thought those of you who have never been to an air show, specifically the Sebring U.S. Sport Aviation …
On Getting Short
Getting short” is a familiar old military term: You’re coming to the end of your deployment or enlistment, and …
Aerosim Flight Academy
It’s not only general aviation that faces a pilot shortage …
Combating Crosswinds
Neither the wind given to you by the tower, nor that shown on a mid-field wind sock, is likely …
Weather Avoidance: Back To Basics
It’s one of the great paradoxes in aviation that one of the biggest killers of pilots âweatherâis one …
Carbon Dating
So what draws him, with all his aviation experience, to the cockpit of the CubCrafters Carbon Cub SS …
When Procedures Fail
Pilots are a conscientious group. We do preflights, use checklists, and respect our physical and technical limitations …
From The Editor: Traffic, Gray Whale. 12 O‘Clock, Low.
On a recent sunny Saturday, contributor Marc Lee and I decided to fly from the Los Angeles area to Santa …