Pilot Stories
Enjoy pilot stories? Our Pilot Talk section is full of informative and entertaining flying tales from accomplished pilot authors.
The Joy Of The Wayback Machine
You’d never see it from the ground. A small stream runs through an ignorable culvert under a county road. In a car, it’s just a bump, if even that. Perhaps a flash, a glimpse of sunlight reflecting off water. You’d never think it was important. You’d never think you’d just crossed history. This morning, however, […]
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
A Rapidly Closing Weather Window
The pilot of a JetPROP-converted Piper Malibu tried to thread his way through severe weather without airborne radar
Send In The Clouds
On the beauty of the billowy stuff, from the terrifying to the magnificent
Why Can‘t We All Just Go-Around?
It’s easy to fix a bad approach; it’s a lot harder to salvage one
Foresee And Avoid A Collision
This midair collision involved more than failure to see and avoid
