Making Sense of the Back-Course Approach: How to prepare before you encounter one
They’re the words every instrument pilot dreads: “Cleared for the back-course approach.” Yes, I...
Read MoreMy Sky: The Flights & Times of Bill Cox
JP Media LLC has published a book by longtime pilot and writer Bill Cox entitled “My Sky: The Flights & Times of Bill Cox.” It details his lifelong travels as a pilot, in the beautifully scripted way in which only Bill can write.
They’re the words every instrument pilot dreads: “Cleared for the back-course approach.” Yes, I...
Read MoreLightspeed Zulu aviation headset. Photo courtesy of Lightspeed Aviation I was tired. No, beyond...
Read MoreFormation flight needn’t be terrifying or dangerous, provided you stay loose Spitfires in...
Read MoreThe hard reality of twin-engine accidents is that the vast majority are a function of loss of...
Read MoreVFR flying can be more difficult than you might imagine. Investigators study accident statistics...
Read MoreNight flying can be profitable. Back in the day when I was young and stupid, long before I...
Read MoreKeeping track of the time/speed/distance equation is only part of fuel management. It was the Christmas holiday, and I was on my way back from the Bahamas to Venice, Florida. Joe Ponte, public relations director of Piper, had...
Read MoreI have a friend who owns a 36 Bonanza, and though his airplane has always been a dozen or so knots faster than mine, he’s consistently envied my bird’s lower fuel burn. At max cruise settings, Bob’s A36 will truck along at a...
Read MoreWhen I was learning to fly back in the 1960s, Wolfgang Langewiesche’s seminal book, Stick & Rudder, and William Kershner’s series of aviation training manuals were the standards by which other systems were measured. And they...
Read MoreFar from menacing monsters, mountains can be your best friends. The Pan American Highway threads its way steeply uphill out of Santiago, Chile, climbing into the rarified air of South America’s high Andes. The road rises with...
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