Airmanship

Getting there and back can mean abandoning Plan A for a new strategy. Situational awareness is key.

Freshly frocked flight instructors need experience, just like the rest of us, and they may need to adjust to their new role.

Our atmosphere’s moisture content affects almost every aspect of flying, from the weather to carb ice to corrosion.

Getting and staying ahead of even the fastest airplane is simply a matter of planning, practice and, well, aggression. 

Departing airports in mountainous areas can mean maximizing your rate of climb into the teens. Know before you go.

Flight in known icing is one of the challenges of flying equipped aircraft. The systems and their limitations is another.

Making right turns to join left-hand traffic patterns is not a FAR violation because ‘vicinity’ is not defined.

Change can be good. It can also soak up your mental bandwidth and force you into reacting instead of planning.

There are almost as many checklists as there are pilots flying, but they all may lack one critical feature.

Taking off: what could be better? You’re about to leave the Earth and do something few people can. When we forget about the possible complications takeoffs can pose, they seem so simple. Point the airplane down the runway. Advance the throttle. Maybe apply a little right rudder (unless you’re in a British airplane, which needs […]