Pilot Skills
Hone your pilot skills with the articles and advice below. Our sport-pilot articles cover topics of interest to novice and advanced general aviation pilots. Trust our ongoing training articles to improve your piloting skills.
Your Guide To Staying Alive While Flying Low
The joy of flying low is no secret, but the risks are real. Arm yourself with the tools to stay safe.
When Training Turns Lethal
The safest kind of flying, statistically at least, has its own hazards. Here’s how to wrap your head around the risk and keep your sunny side up.
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
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.
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.
Adding A Helicopter Rating: Getting To Know The Beast
The first step in learning to fly helicopters, a lifelong dream of one pilot, was learning to hover. But would that first step also be his last?
Loss Of Control: Spins Or Spirals?
The latter can look a lot like the former, especially when all there is to see is the aftermath.
Becoming A Creature of Habit (Well, Good Habits, Anyway)
Developing good habits is critical for our flying. So why is it that so few of us are any good at it?
