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Find It by Feel: A Pilot’s Essential Cockpit Lesson
Gain mastery of controls and circuit breakers on the ground before in-flight emergencies.
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Half Century of Flight Has Included Some Altitude and Ground Speed
Pilot career experiences both fast and slow, and high and low.
Explaining the Fiction of Minimum Speed
There are many implausible claims about airspeed that should be understood.
Unannounced Landings and the Need for Bail Money
It’s not that I didn’t have permission to land at the private grass strip. It’s that the person who granted me permission to land there wasn’t technically the owner.
Blackhawk Aerospace’s King Air 350 Fulfills the Need for Speed
What aviation aficionado hasn’t watched the iconic 1986 hit movie Top Gun, the story of Maverick, a US Navy F-14 pilot portrayed by actor Tom Cruise? In an early scene with co-star Anthony Edwards, the pair is walking among a bevy of parked F-14s when Maverick’s overcome with the need to yell, “I feel the […]
Civil Air Patrol Joins Operation Warp Speed
When the Great Lakes Region Civil Air Patrol received a request from the Defense Coordinating Element at FEMA’s Region V office in December 2020 to transport the COVID-19 vaccine by air to several locations in Wisconsin and Michigan, the unit was poised for action. The request? To deliver the first and second rounds of the […]
High-Altitude Flying: What You Need to Know
The pilots of a Learjet 36 cruising high over Cleveland Center’s airspace are fighting a desperate battle for survival — but they don’t realize it. Suffering the effects of extreme hypoxia in the thin air at 32,000 feet, the copilot is passed out. The captain in the left seat is barely hanging on. Most chilling […]
I Learned About Flying From That: A Bad Feeling
Our county medical society was hosting a winter conference at Sun Valley, a ski resort town in Idaho. Being an avid skier and pilot, I jumped at the opportunity to scratch both itches and fly to the conference. The FBO at my field had a Seneca II available, with oxygen, boots and hot props (but […]
In Search of Lost Airspeed
(October 2011) Air France 447 went down in the mid-Atlantic in 2009 because all three of its pitot tubes iced up. Well, not exactly. It wasn’t the loss of functioning pitot tubes that doomed the airplane; it was what the A330’s autopilot, and human pilots, did next. The autopilot — but it would be more […]
