Pilots

Doing something people aren’t used to seeing sometimes forces you to explain yourself.

Sullenberger’s confirmation comes as the Biden Administration is expected to push for new global aviation emission standards.

What does it take to make a long career out of ferrying airplanes? Editor-in-Chief Julie Boatman flies with Margrit Waltz.

Alteration gives more information and a modern meaning for a common aviation abbreviation.

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 […]

The bladder relief devices are aimed at curbing pilots from dehydrating themselves before flights.

How can you prepare for the mindset of the pilot in the other seat?

What does a pilot need to pack before crossing the North Atlantic? Editor-in-Chief Julie Boatman found out.

(July 2011) It was a silence I wasn’t used to. Actually, it wasn’t all that quiet what with the whirr of hummingbirds’ wings, the braying of burros and the cooing of doves. But what I wasn’t hearing was the sound of airplanes. For the two months I spent in Oaxaca, Mexico, last winter, the skies […]

Richmond, who was 67, established his popular backcountry aircraft series in 1980.