I.L.A.F.F.T

A pilot flies through an incident with grief on his shoulders.

When you share you experiences and knowledge with your passengers they may catch the aviation bug.

Ferrying an airplane for a friend takes a turn for the worse when a storm prompts a hasty reaction.

Snow and ice present particular challenges for pilots, especially when getting from the hangar to the taxiway.

An imminent problem turns into a dramatic night.

When hazy conditions combine with clouds of snow geese, a pilot learns the value of over communicating and ADS-B.

A faulty glideslope connection fools a pilot into following the instrument’s needle almost into the ground.

In fall 1967, I was a Marine second lieutenant and completed my first solo in a Navy T-34. After a couple of times around the pattern, the instructor got out, slapped me on the helmet, and told me to make three touch-and-goes and come back to pick him up. In fall 2017, I completed my […]

Many years ago, a friend landed and left his Cessna 172 in Louisville, Kentucky, because of weather, an hour and half away from our home-base airport in Madisonville. He was far too busy in his business to go back and fly it home anytime soon. As a newly minted 17-year-old private pilot, I jumped at […]

The flight began normally. Little did I know how crazy and funny things would end up becoming. It was my student’s last flight before his first check ride in the private pilot portion of our Part 141 curriculum, which comes just before a student’s first solo. We were flying a Cessna 152. We had a […]