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The first NAFI Summit brought together an expert’s round of experts in flight training to the table.

For aviator types who would rather skip a football game for a hundred-dollar hamburger, you better check to see if your airplane is ‘in annual’ before you taxi out.

Has this ever happened to you? You’re in the traffic pattern and trending high on final. The throttle is at idle and the airplane is fully configured to land. Initially there may be a temptation to push the nose down, but the extra airspeed will probably lead to significant float. Staying on the current approach […]

If you encounter FOD, there is a good chance you will not be flying that day.

A lot happens quickly in this variation on a normal landing.

Turbochargers boost power within safe limits—as long as you treat them with care.

You may feel better on the medication, but you’ll fly worse.

Flight training isn’t just about learning the right way to do things. A huge portion concerns recovering when things go wrong—self-inflicted or otherwise. For instance, take the power-off stall. I remember my first one, as the instructor pulled the power and I held the yoke back, stall horn screeching, until our Cessna Skyhawk’s nose snapped […]

I’ve introduced a lot of pilots to a lot of different types of autopilots in over 30 years teaching in high-performance aircraft. What began for me as a building-block teaching technique has evolved into the way I use autopilots myself: beginning with the basics and adding complexity. It puts the aircraft in simple automated control […]

Many consider Arizona city to be among the most beautiful airports in the United States.