Lessons Learned: A Really Wild Goose Chase
What was supposed to be an easy VFR flight to go hunting takes a turn
Lessons Learned
Explore Lessons Learned About Flying (and about life), where pilots share their first-person accounts of gripping flights gone bad, and how their skills and quick thinking allowed them to survive to fly another day
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Lessons Learned: Engine Trouble Over The Bayou
Alligators, dark nights and wishful thinking
Lessons Learned: Fencing With Crosswinds
Crosswinds are never fun, but they’re usually manageable’usually
Lessons Learned: Sharing The Dream
Chance meetings and a mutual love of aviation pass along the passion and joy of flying
Lessons Learned: Opera And Flying
Anyone who has ever piloted an aircraft appreciates Virgin Atlantic’s catchy slogan of the early 2000s: You Never Forget Your First Time. Flying is magical. It’s one of those rare experiences that exceeds the hype of its depiction in movies and video games. As an operatic tenor, I always say flying is one of the […]
Lessons Learned: Lost In Alaska
Changing weather and unforgiving terrain make it all too easy to lose your way
Lessons Learned: Speaking From The Heart
Overcoming a speech deficit’and the naysayers’to achieve and share a lifelong dream
Lessons Learned: Home Before Dark
A sacred mission for a pilot and his Cessna 185 in Venezuela
