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I’ve known and worked with Richard Collins for 28 years, and he has taught me much about flying. I can’t believe there is any general aviation pilot who has traveled more in the IFR system than he has. But I never really fully shared his enthusiasm for studying and understanding the big weather picture. My […]

The action is so simple, requiring such a small amount of effort. And yet I can’t quite seem to get myself to perform it. My hand is poised on the throttle knob. All I have to do is pull it back. And yet, in that move is the surrender of my own home and bed […]

The first “high-performance” airplane I flew was a brand-new 1975 Piper Arrow II. With its businesslike green-and-black-and-white paint scheme (the color of money, you know) and that certain air that all retractable-gear airplanes had in my mind, I was smitten. And it was a nice airplane, though now that I think about it, it wasn’t […]

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