Get A Handle On Turbulence
Tips and tricks to spot turbulence and minimize its impact on your ride.
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Practice Tailwheel Airplane Skills In A Nosewheel Airplane
Master a couple of key skills to ease your transition to a tailwheel airplane.
Lessons Learned: A Seaplane Pilot‘s Wilderness Fishing Flight Gets Weathered In
A Lake Amphibian, 25-pound steelhead, and a deluge lead to high drama for a pilot and his friends.
Thinking About Flying Emergencies Before They Happen
Preparing for common emergencies by knowing precisely how to react can help you save the day.
Rusty Pilot Practice Plan
A short-but-sweet batch of maneuvers that any pilot can use to brush up on their skills between those flight reviews.
Get Your Instrument Rating. Why The IFR Ticket Is The Best Option For That Next Rating
Adding a rating is always a good idea, so if you’ve got time on your hands, the time to get started is now. And here’s the rating you should add.
Smoke In The Cockpit
Oil line issues cause a pilot to have multiple emergency landings on one vacation.
No Notams? No Problems? Not Necessarily
Just because there isn’t a heads-up of an outage or other issue doesn’t mean there won’t be problems. Sometimes the consequences are downright chilling.
Rocky Mountain Turbulence In An Old Stinson
The choice of fuel stops on a return trip from Oshkosh to British Columbia seemed to make sense, until it really didn’t.
Intersection Departures: A Risk Worth Taking?
When the tower offers a downfield departure, how should you respond?
