Pilot Stories
Enjoy pilot stories? Our Pilot Talk section is full of informative and entertaining flying tales from accomplished pilot authors.
From The Editor: “Student Pilot, First Solo”
 Everyone remembers their first solo flight. And so when I heard, âStudent pilot, first solo,â transmitted on the radio a few days ago at Van Nuys Airport, it brought me back to that chilly March morning when my instructor Liz DeStaffany hopped out of N2447B and I taxied the Cessna 172 to Santa Monica Airport’s runway 21. |
Plane & Pilot In A Pilot’s Story
Filmed in hangars and homes, at restaurants and on ramps, A Pilot’s Story is an upcoming documentary from Wilco Films that tells the story of flight in the words of pilots themselves.
Traveling By “Corporate”Airplane
A local breakfast flight emphasizes the value of corporate aviation
CSI Insurance: Excogitations On LSA Crashes, Part Deux
A discussion about LSA insurance rates
They‘re Here, Now What?
 Eclipse. Cessna. Embraer. Three different companies with three different certified very light jets (VLJs). The latter, with its newly certified Phenom 100, currently holds the crown as the biggest, fastest and most expensive of the certified VLJs to date. Cessna’s Mustang holds the distinguished position of the tried and tested âsure thingâ built by a company that understands owner-pilots better than anyone. |
