“Rick,” I said, “you need to clean up this place!” The hangar floor was littered with blown-in grass clippings and dust bunnies, along with …
Pilot Talk
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Hearing and Doing
It’s not just me. Many of the pilot population in my circle confess to having the same difficulty: understanding …
A Father Goes Flying With The Kid
By Wayne Pinger I dipped the fuel tanks with my home-calibrated doweling, a dipstick gas gauge I made and …
Dueling Flight Sims
Forty years ago, we would have never thought about the day when a desktop computer flight simulator would be used …
When Are Pilots the Most Dangerous?
When are pilots the most dangerous? This is a topic of discussion at many flight schools and anytime you get …
Nall Report a Blueprint for Flight Instruction
The flight instructor is the first gatekeeper when it comes to aviation safety. It is incumbent on the CFI to …
Dressing Fly Is About More Than Looking Good
Spring is the most fickle season when it comes to weather in the Pacific Northwest. One day it is unseasonably …
The Race to Build Dayton-Wright’s Time Machine
In the film Back to the Future II, the antagonist Biff Tannen steals a sports almanac containing scores from every …
Why the Southwest Holiday Meltdown Blowback is Coming
Southwest Airlines’ (SWA) holiday system-wide meltdown was by all accounts the single biggest disruption in the history of American …
America‘s Most Unusual Airports
When one is first learning to fly, an important milestone is that first landing! at a different airport! It’s …
Dallas Midair Tragedy: New Videos Show Startling Change in Flight Path of P-63
Multiple foreign news outlets shared a video earlier this week that appears to show a foreign object striking the Bell …