Lessons Learned: A Cardinal‘s Close Encounter
A cross-country flight runs into mysterious trouble’¦over Roswell.
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: The World’s Most Reluctant Flight Engineer
Sometimes the biggest risk of all is the challenge we don’t take.
Lessons Learned: Speak Up!
How you approach crew resource management can be the difference between a good flight and a debacle, whether you’re a new pilot or a junior first officer.
Lessons Learned: Bizjet Destiny And A Jumpseat
Coming full circle in the world of bizjet flying
Lessons Learned: Headwinds, Wishful Thinking And Get-Home-Itis
Low on fuel and feeling the pressure to get home, a new parent struggles to make the right call
Lessons Learned: Crossing Paths
After decades of thinking about flight, in late June 2003, I finally took my first lesson. It was a great move that has gone on to take my family and me to places I expected and places I never dreamed of. The timing, though, could hardly have turned out worse. My career, which had always […]
Lessons Learned: Date With A Dust Storm
Poor visibility (and poor judgment) leads to potentially dire consequences over rural West Texas
Splashdown!
An emergency checklist for overwater flight for pilot’and passengers’makes the difference in surviving a crash
The Seaplane Crash That Almost Killed Me
What should have been a leisurely demo ride in a perfectly good seaplane somehow went horribly wrong
Plan To Live
As night falls and the visibility drops, can a home-brewed approach save the day?
