I.L.A.F.F.T.

Special 100th episode celebration of FLYING’s podcast takes listeners on a nostalgic journey through our favorite pilots stories.

FLYING is counting down to its 100th ILAFFT podcast episode. This week we revisit listener’s No. 1 favorite episode: ‘A Worst-Case Scenario.’’

FLYING is counting down to its 100th ILAFFT podcast episode. This week we revisit listener favorite No. 3: ‘Ready for the Emergency.’

Dealing with the weather predicament once presented an unexpected and harrowing learning opportunity.

A long-ago flight out of Dallas almost ended in a total loss.

Pilot checklists are only good when used at the right time.

A thunderstorm encounter changes the way a pilot thinks about instrument flying.

It must have been about two years after I received my private pilot license in Switzerland. At 28 years of age, I was happily married with two healthy boys, aged 2 and 4, and a promising banking career lying ahead. The world and future looked bright, and I was going to take the opportunity to fly when I […]

It was my first flying job—the one you dreamed about having all your life. The one for which you strove, saved and worked so hard, and it was finally real. I had to leave my native New Zealand and move to the Australian Outback to get it, but that just made it all the more […]

A lot has been written over the past few years about pilots relying on the automation to fly the airplane to the detriment of actual hands-on-the-stick piloting skills. I have long been baffled by pilots’ reliance on the autopilot. But perhaps this attitude comes from my Air Force training early on and particularly from a […]