Pilot Proficiency

This Midwest bucket list destination in Michigan offers an approach to a modest runway.

Since most airports are designed with runways aligned into prevailing winds, many pilots don’t get much work with crosswind takeoffs and landings.

Remember that an airplane does not instantly recover airspeed that’s lost in a wind shear.

It’s important to know the difference between the FAA’s standards and your own.

Mountain wave turbulence can be a great teacher that cuts both ways.

It’s a straightforward T-bar approach to this wine country airport in New York.

Know what you need to be legal.

It’s time to go cloud flyin’ again after 56 years, thanks to the help of some wonderful people.

I have written far too many stories about fatal accidents that were attributed to an uncommanded loss of engine power.

It’s a circling approach to a mountain getaway.