You did what everyone told you not to do: fly into a thunderstorm. How will you get out the other side?

It’s been a minute or two, but one of the show planes at EAA’s AirVenture fly-in one year was an immaculate Fairchild radial-engine single. I was admiring it one day and read the description, noting the pilot and airplane were based at the Smoketown Airport (S37) in Smoketown, Pennsylvania, near Lancaster. To many, that airport […]

Don’t depend on datalinked Nexrad imagery alone to fly through thunderstorm activity. Instead, stay visual.

With some basic tools, plus a couple of special ones, you can change your engine’s oil, saving some money and shop time. 

When you need to divert for an unplanned stop, the reason for Plan B will dictate some of the choices you’ll make.

John Zimmerman, president of Sporty’s, recently penned an essay in Air Facts, where he’s also editor-in-chief. The essay’s title— “Ignore the YouTube crash detectives—it’s usually pilot error”— tells you pretty much everything you need to know about it. John’s specific lament is that, “When a high performance airplane crashes in IMC, the self-proclaimed experts on […]

When you absolutely, positively want to delay your landing for slower traffic ahead of you, use hover mode.

These aren’t pilot secrets, but if your preflight planning tells you some of the risks you’re facing are too great, consider this advice to help mitigate them.

After missing its own deadline by eight months, Congress got its act together long enough to finally agree on an FAA funding bill. It actually has a few goodies inside.

Flying VFR into instrument conditions is the way most spatial disorientation accidents happen. Just say no.