Opinion

When I posted to my personal Facebook page a link to my story on longtime Flying magazine columnist Martha Lunken getting her pilot certificates revoked … Read More "Going Direct: Martha Lunken And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Decision To Fly Under a Bridge"

The annual Sun ’n Fun Fly-In is a wrap for 2021. The event, which was cancelled due to the pandemic in 2020, went forward this … Read More "Going Direct: Sun ’n Fun 2021 Is A Wrap. Our 8 Takeaways From A Show To Remember."

When I wrote about my concerns about how Sun ’n Fun would be run and I was just going to stay away, I was wrong. … Read More "Going Direct: Why Sun ’n Fun Has Been Such A Big Success In Spite of Sun ’n Fun"

The NTSB, in issuing its annual list of highest-priority safety improvements in the transportation sector, has included something that it points out has been suggested … Read More "Mandated Cockpit Video Recorders, Pilot Suicide And Why Cockpit Cameras Are A Terrible Idea That Will Probably Happen Anyway"

Two Republican governors of large red states have body slammed the very idea of vaccination passports, and they have support from many conservatives and a … Read More "Going Direct: Why Vaccine Passports Are the New Cultural Battleground in Aviation"

The return of the big airshow is here! That is, it’s kind of here. Well, almost kind of here.

We’re sharing with you here a single frame of a doorbell video capture of a crash in North Perry, Florida, of a Beech Bonanza that … Read More "Going Direct: Why You Won’t See This Crash Video On Our Site"

Déjà vu, right? Last year at this time, things were pretty much hunky dory. We knew that the virus existed, but few really thought it … Read More "Going Direct: Despite COVID surge, Sun ’n Fun Plans For In-Person Event Going Forward"