No One Is Flying
Two pilot heads should be better than one when gear issues strike a Piper Arrow.
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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Best-Laid Plans
Confidence and enthusiasm can only take you so far during first flight in unfamiliar aircraft
Riding the Mountain Waves
Understanding the interaction between weather and terrain is critical.
Expect the Unexpected
Experiencing bad luck is part of flying, so be as prepared as possible to deal with it.
The Sugar Beet Field
Recalling a long-ago microburst that forced a firm farm landing in Colorado
Getting Even
A close call in the early 1960s in an unfamiliar PA-12 stressed the importance of preflight inspection.
Where There’s Smoke…
All’s well that ends well during a long-ago Super Cub solo emergency landing.
