When the paperwork weighs as much as the airplane …
“When the paperwork weighs as much as the airplane, you’re ready to fly.” I wish this was further from the
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Flight Training
How do we teach people to fly? How can we teach them to fly better? Safer? More courteously? More often? With more confidence? Sometimes with less? And how can we survive in the challenging business of doing all of this?
Get it right now or live with it in the air
BEFORE YOU GO “Far better to be on the ground wishing we were in the air than to be in
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The Science of Starting a Piston Aircraft Engine
Wondering why it is so hard to start a piston airplane when it’s cold outside? Suspect that there is a secret procedure that works every time?
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Tailwheel Endorsement: More Than a Bucket List Item
Ever since I first flew in a J-3 Cub some 10 years ago, I’ve wanted to get my tailwheel endorsement.
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Gas-O-line
2016 04 14 Thursday 13 July 2016 Adam Broome, in his much modified Beechcraft Bonanza is as we speak, departing
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Regular or Hi-Test, Sir?
Nothing so useless in aviation as the runway behind you, the air above you, and the fuel in the truck
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Flight Controls: Free and Correct
Ever wonder why your before flight checklist reads “Flight Controls: Free and Correct?” (If it doesn’t, it should.) Ever watch
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Advice to a new instrument pilot
Yes, I know you didn’t ask for it. Sorry, it’s my job. As the possessor of a recently-acquired instrument rating,
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So, you want to learn to fly?
So you want to learn to fly? You’ve come to the right place. Let’s see if we can answer some
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Old School in a Changing World
The ground is ever shifting beneath our feet. But lately it seems to be tilting in a way that makes
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