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There are certain things we have always with us; the Bible mentions the poor, but believers in the ultimate superiority of flying wings are another, and almost equally persistent, category. Like devout knights bent upon finding the chalice used by Jesus at the Last Supper, they keep their eyes unblinking on the prize. Their Grail […]

I don’t like the term “used” or “preowned” applied to airplanes. Those are standards of the automotive industry, and airplanes and cars have next to nothing in common. The best way to describe an airplane that isn’t brand new is “existing.” That’s the term typically applied to buildings. They are either new or existing. You […]

There are two or three days every month that I have come to dread. For it is on these days that I compile and review the NTSBs reports of aviation accidents for the previous month.

It is morbid. It is depressing. It puts me in a foul mood. My family hates these days just as much.

Over the years Ive followed this routine, I have become jaded and insensitive. I call people idiots – and worse – for transgressions such as pushing a long landing instead of going around, and winding up in the trees. Somehow, I would hope to have more compassion.

Perhaps what bothers me the most is that the record offers incontrovertible proof that this flying thing can be a risky venture. Few people pla…

Loose luggage poses a variety of hazards, from jamming controls to in-flight projectiles to post-impact bludgeon

Pitot clogs and forgotten covers cause their share of smoked tires, runway overruns and outright crashes

The troubled hydraulics in the Cessna 210 landing gear attract the FAAs attention again

Graduations are always a combination of happiness celebrating a job well done and sadness that a big part of the lives of everyone involved has come to an end. Over the four years our daughter Karen spent at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, my Baron was involved in every phase. Karen had […]

“Are you sure you don’t need anything else?” Karen Anderson asked. “No. No, I’m fine. Really.” “But your bottled water’s gotten warm,” she said. “Let me get you a cold one?” It’s hard to resist an offer like that. She took the warm water bottle and made her way to the galley at the back […]

Part 1 of a 3-part series on the AirShares Elite small-airplane fractional ownership program, here on flyingmag.com. Last year I did a long-term evaluation of a small-airplane fractional ownership program run by OurPlane. During the nine-month period, I was for all intents and purposes an OurPlane owner, flying a new Cessna 182 along with the […]

It’s not apocryphal. A candidate for the instrument rating went up with an examiner for his flight test. The examiner, after carefully covering the screens on the airplane’s dual Garmin 430s, asked the pilot to perform an NDB approach. With some difficulty, the instrument candidate was finally able to explain to the examiner that without […]