Pilot Proficiency

Complacency is one of the biggest enemies pilots face. As we go about our business accomplishing flight-related tasks, over time they can become rote actions performed without the necessary forethought to ensure we’re not acting out of habit. The NTSB is warning pilots of several recent incidents where pilots pulled a lever or hit a […]

The following article is from the January 2005 print issue. “Nope,” I said. “No way. There’s no way that a turn downwind, or upwind, or in any other direction, is any different from a turn in still air.” “Well, sonny,” said the Old-Timer, “maybe out your way the air’s made of different stuff. But I’ve […]

** | |Illustrations by Chris Gall**| In Joni Mitchell’s 1969 song “Both Sides, Now,” a haunting and sentimental little earwig, the singer laments that after looking at clouds “from both sides now,” she really doesn’t know them very well at all. The same could be said for many pilots. Even after thousands of hours in […]

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The National Aeronautic Association released its list of Most Memorable Aviation Records of 2012 on Tuesday, and, not surprisingly, topping out the selections was Felix Baumgartner’s 199,431-foot freefall skydive jump in October. The Austrian jumper’s world-watched feat smashed the previous record of 80,380 feet set by Yevgeni Nikolayevich Andreyev 50 years earlier. The NAA also […]

A scenic birthday flight over rural Utah went sour after suspected carburetor ice caused a loss of power. Pilot Lynn Goodsell offered to bring Kayla Fielding, her husband Jonathan and infant son for a ride in his 1960 Cessna 175B to help celebrate her birthday. Jonathan Fielding switched on his telephone video camera after Goodsell […]

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 Av Shiloh, who recently flew into Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport in a Piper PA24-260TC Turbo Comanche. Here’s what Av had to say about one of the airport’s FBOs, […]

As many of you already know, I recently started flying a new Diamond DA40 XLS as one of the inaugural “members” to sign up with DiamondShare, a new concept in aircraft ownership that is seeking to dramatically alter the economic equation for buyers. I first heard about DiamondShare last summer at the Oshkosh Airshow. My […]

The cloud were building beautifully over the ­California coast range. I was back from college for the weekend and itching to fly, so I grabbed my camera and hopped into one of the Fresno Sky Riders Club Cessna 150s. It was a 1963 model with the standard Continental O-200 engine, producing 100 galloping horsepower — […]

Flying Editor-in-Chief Robert Goyer’s Cirrus SR22 was involved in a midair collision with a Cessna 152 on February 1 approximately 13 miles west-southwest of Easterwood Field Airport (KCLL) in College Station, Texas. Both the flight instructor and the student flying in the 152 were uninjured, while the commercial pilot operating the Cirrus SR22, who is […]