Lessons Learned: Defying Gravity And The Odds
How learning to fly helped a senior director at Reddit achieve her goals.
Proficiency
Our pilot training articles are designed to help you improve your flying proficiency. Bone up on beneficial skills as well as the biggest mistakes to avoid as a pilot. Fly right with articles on topics such as dealing with ice and the most dangerous things you can do as a pilot.
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Exposing The Risk Of Texting And Flying
While many pilots do it, it might not be as risk-free as many of us think it is.
Adding A Helicopter Rating: The Good And Bad Of Airplane Muscle Memory
An airplane rating would make learning this machine a breeze. Or so it seemed on the first date
A Student Pilot Gets A Surprise On A Pre-Solo Flight
See how a student pilot handles a gear up landing.
Solo And Asleep: The Dangers Of Fatigue While Flying
Fatigue while flying can present hundreds of risks that can ruin your day.
Automation In Aircraft Can Kill, When It’s Not Saving Your Life, That Is
There are life-saving lessons for us light airplane flyers from the recent crash of a Boeing 737 Max. What they are and why we need to learn them, now.
Drones in our Airspace
There’s no avoiding it. A big part of our future is remotely piloted. What does it mean to GA as a whole and to you and your risk of midair collision?
Flying In Formation Led To Romance For Two Pilots
How a seemingly uneventful Unicom call changed everything.
Circle-to-Land Life-Saving Tips
For one, fly wider circles, up to a point. Here’s how to find the balance.
VFR At Night
There’s no difference between flying in daylight and flying at night’except you can’t see anything.
