Pilot Proficiency

In the thin air above 20,000 feet, with German fighters bearing down from all directions, the inside of an unpressurized American bomber in World War II was an altogether foreign world. Freezing cold, oxygen-deprived and hundreds of miles from the nearest friendly fighter escort, the bombers faced desperate odds with each mission deep into enemy […]

It was a lousy day for a VFR trip — not unusual in coastal Southern California in the spring. We get stratus clouds that come in from the ocean and create low ceilings that last for days. On this particular day we needed to get a package up to Corona Airport, and I did not […]

It was a clear but chilly January morning when I arrived at Madison County Executive (MDQ) in Huntsville, Alabama, to return home after my first “real” cross-country flight. Three days earlier I had made the 462 nm journey from my home airport in Liberty, Missouri, to Huntsville. At this point I had roughly 95 hours […]

With the iPad propped up on the restaurant table, I picked away at my veggie omelet. Not entirely confident that the almost cartoonish radar data of the flight planning program was presenting an accurate picture, I switched to my professional weather rock — the WSI program. I thought it apropos that I had spent the […]

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Michael Raisch, a father in Jersey City, New Jersey, found a new way to bring his passion for flight to his 2-year-old daughter over the holidays. Alongside the Christmas tree in the family’s living room, Raisch built a Boeing 737-800 flight simulator, complete with an enclosed cockpit and several rows of seats that his daughter […]

You may be one of many people who allow their dogs to roam freely as they drive in the car. While it is not a good idea to have your dog run around while you are driving, allowing a canine to be loose the cockpit can be a huge safety issue. Here are some tips […]

The increasing popularity of digital video cameras has given rise to an unprecedented number of heart-stopping aviation scenes, some of them captured from inside the cockpit and others shot by bystanders on the ground. The top 10 viral aviation videos that ran in Flying’s Enews in the last year are well worth rewatching, or viewing […]

Many new pilots are apprehensive about very long trips — those of much farther distances than the run-of-the-mill two- to three-hour cross-countries. But really, these longer trips are no more difficult to plan and fly than shorter hops, and the time goes by more quickly than you might think. When planning your route, it’s a […]

The Piper Super Cub is essentially a J-3 Cub airframe equipped with a few space-age refinements like flaps and an electrical system, and powered by a 150 hp Lycoming — in some cases a 160 or 180 — in place of the original’s 40 hp Continental. Piper produced nearly 3,000 of them, many of which […]