Search Results for: Cessna 172

Key factors that affect airplane takeoff speed (sometimes referred to as its rotation speed) include: direction of airflow, the airplane’s shape (especially its wings), the airplane’s size, and its weight.

Knowing your mission can help narrow the field of candidates.

As an airplane undergoes its first annual inspection under its new owner’s watch, the resulting expectations and nerves transport this pilot into a mental version of a smoky waiting room of expectant fathers.

Interested in pilot training? Find schools to meet your needs and location in the Golden State.

Owners can now replace a wood propeller with a Polaris composite propeller.

Sometimes a room with a view means watching jets on the ramp.

Once a New England specialty, the humble roll has become a nationwide obsession.

There are skills from day-to-day activities that can help you in the cockpit.

Many years ago, as a new private pilot, I found myself dealing with a false sense of security and passenger distractions. It was a nice afternoon in southern California, and a couple of co-workers and I just finished work. They had never been in a small plane before, so we headed to Montgomery Field in […]

When I was in the Air Force, my colleagues would tell the story of how some fighter pilots used to do touch-and-goes on a tall, flat mesa that stuck up somewhere in the southwest desert, perhaps in Nevada or Arizona. It was dubbed “Touch-And-Go Mesa.” (Imaginative, huh?) One pilot supposedly did the thing, and then […]