Proficiency
Improving or maintaining your flying skills is a goal every pilot should have with each flight. Here are expert opinions on how to apply performance standards to your everyday flying.
9 Tips: How To Taxi At Big Airports
Big airports can be scary. Getting into them includes lots of traffic and busy ATC controllers. But just getting there …
How To Use Your Plane’s Brakes
Bringing a speeding airborne airplane to a halt seems a simple enough process. Just plop it onto the runway, push …
Nine Tips And Tricks For Staying IFR Proficient
Master instructor Tom Turner nailed it during a presentation he gave, saying, “You need to work just as hard to …
This Pilot Almost Missed The Real Training
It was a rare sunny February day in Seattle. Between the long months of gray and rain starting sometime in …
Understanding Maneuvering Speed
What is maneuvering speed, and why should you care?
Perhaps more importantly, what should you know to maximize your flying …
Avoiding Night Blindness While Flying
My plan to fly my Mooney from Sacramento, California (SAC), to Kerrville, Texas (ERV), was ready for action. The plane …