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You can’t manufacture joy, but you can know it when you see it.

Conditions in the air can look different to different pilots, especially to ones with varying amounts and kinds of experience.

Reminisces of a fun and misspent life aloft.

Connecting with the past via a Piper Arrow.

My wife and I went out to a morning FAA safety seminar on Long Island. One gentleman in the audience said, “For flying, I love foreplay.” My wife looked at me and asked, “Is he talking about the mile-high club?” I said, “No, Dear. I think he means ForeFlight.” By then the laughter had subsided. […]

The long rap sheet only tells part of the tale.

You can fly a lot of IFR these days without encountering anything but GPS approaches with LPV minimums. In this challenge, you’ll fly departures and approaches at two airports where the procedures required are anything but standard. Better brief them well so the gotchas don’t getcha. Use whatever airplane you like for this challenge, as […]

One of the truisms in aviation is that there’s weather no airplane should tackle. The addendum is that if you want to go shoot approaches in your Cessna 150 through relatively benign IMC, there’s probably not that much that can go wrong. But even a 747 likely won’t tolerate extreme icing. And we all (should) […]

Microsoft Flight Simulator offers an opportunity to explore unique weather conditions—and the pucker factor—before takeoff.

Practical tips help ease your way into an unfamiliar field.