Lessons From The Logbook | Cessna Owner Organization

Tailplane Stalls: How to avoid one

by Joel Turpin | Become a Better Pilot, Lessons From The Logbook

By Joel Turpin The tailplane stall has received very little attention in aviation training venues,...

20 Tips for VFR Flight

by Bill Cox | Lessons From The Logbook

VFR flying can be more difficult than you might imagine. Investigators study accident statistics...

20 Things to Consider About Night Flying

by Katie Holliday-Greenley | Become a Better Pilot, Lessons From The Logbook

By Bill Cox Night flying can be profitable. Back in the day when I was young and stupid, long...

NEVER Run It Dry

by Bill Cox | Columns, Lessons From The Logbook, Magazine

Keeping 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...

Fly Cheap! (or at least cheaper) – 3 Tricks to Trim Fuel Costs

by Bill Cox | Columns, Features, Lessons From The Logbook, Magazine

I 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...

How to Fly an Airplane: Rod Machado’s new “How-To” manual hits all the right buttons

by Bill Cox | Columns, Lessons From The Logbook, Magazine

When 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...