Adventures & More

Do you consider yourself mentally healthy? At least, for a pilot? The FAA is asking for volunteer GA pilots for confidential testing of cognitive skills during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. The purpose is to establish baseline readings of brain-function data among healthy pilots so the agency can evaluate those recovering from brain injuries. The FAA assures […]

“Whoa! Stop. You would not do that to your lawn mower.” I hear this over the din of the engine and next feel a firm left hand atop my sweating right hand. The left hand slowly pulls my tightly clenched right hand and the throttle on the Cessna 150 toward the idle position. As opposed […]

A North Carolina pilot late last night successfully landed his single-engine Piper Cherokee between cars on Highway 321 a few miles short of Hickory Regional Airport after running out of fuel. The pilot, Eric Klein, told a reporter for WSOC that when he ran out of fuel he was too low to make the airport […]

Plane spotters in England got the scare of their lives when a Eurofighter Typhoon came within feet of the perimeter fence at RAF Waddington while landing for an airshow earlier this month. Spectators scrambled for cover as the jet roared past, its wheels barely skimming over the large group of spotters. In photos taken of […]

Last summer, my wife and I wanted to visit the Brooks Range in August to hunt Dall sheep. For those not familiar with it, the Brooks Range is a mountain range stretching about 700 miles from western Alaska across the state east to Canada’s Yukon Territory. From where we live in South Central Alaska, it […]

After questions arose during the Pilot Racing Seminar in June as to whether there would be a future for Unlimited racers at Reno, there is no longer any doubt. With the Unlimited racers the top draw, Reno needed a big name, and it got it, with one of the most storied racers to ply the […]

Everyone agrees that diesel makes a lot of sense for light GA, but so far there have only been lower- to mid-power options, including models from Thielert, Austro and SMA. One company, Engineered Propulsion Systems (EPS), of New Richmond, Wisconsin, is doing something about this state of affairs by developing an aero diesel, the Vision […]

In our FBO Spotlight series, we’re highlighting FBOs around the country that have received rave reviews from our readers. This latest Spotlight is brought to you by John Moffitt, who recently flew into Salt Lake City International Airport in a Cessna 182. Here’s what he had to say about the airport’s FBO, TAC Air: “Although […]

The crash of Asiana 214, a Boeing 777, at SFO brought to the world’s attention a number of issues that pilots have been talking about for years, most notably the role of automation in safety and its potential unintended negative consequences if pilots become too reliant on it and lose critical hand-flying skills. What issue […]

With apologies to our vegan readers, we present the most delicious flight plan ever, with waypoints carefully chosen not necessarily to give the best routing but to offer the best life advice, in our humble opinions, that is. The picture was snapped in flight by Cirrus rep Ivy McIvers, who presumably hadn’t had any part […]