Going Direct: Thanksgiving By Air
It seems improbable, but the Pilgrims helped shape my love of flying. The Thanksgiving holiday is strongly associated with air travel, for good and for … Read More “Going Direct: Thanksgiving By Air”
Isabel Goyer’s Blog Posts
It seems improbable, but the Pilgrims helped shape my love of flying. The Thanksgiving holiday is strongly associated with air travel, for good and for … Read More “Going Direct: Thanksgiving By Air”
Should the FAA have regulatory authority over model airplanes? It’s a more complicated debate than many people realize. The drone debate has been back and … Read More “Going Direct: Are We Glimpsing GA‘s Future With Drone Debate?”
The NTSB came out last week with an interesting press release reminding pilots that they should always take off using all available runway. We found … Read More “Going Direct: Why NTSB Guidance On Intersection Takeoffs Is Tone Deaf”
Those of us who’ve been immersed in aviation for any length of time know what it is to lose someone you know to an airplane … Read More “Going Direct: Roy Halladay, Risk And The Calculus Behind It”
We pilots know that our airplanes are an integral part of our lives in ways large and small. The events of a few months ago … Read More “Going Direct: The Agony And Ecstasy Of Flying”
After a fatal crash of a company airplane earlier this year, the manufacturer does an apparent 180 on low-level maneuvering. After the crash of one … Read More “Going Direct: Icon To Position Holders: Be Careful Down Low”
It was a show unlike any other, in ways both bad and good. Despite the sad context, there was a lot of important conversation and … Read More “Going Direct: NBAA 2017 Wraps Up: 7 Important Takeaways”
How does a large aviation convention get to business in the same town where only days before the largest mass shooting in United States history … Read More “Going Direct: Las Vegas Soldiers On As NBAA Convention Begins”
The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Convention in Las Vegas is fast approaching—“fast” being the operative term in all things related to the activity. While … Read More “Going Direct: Business Is Personal”