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Senior contributor Bill Cox made his first international trip in 1977, flying a new Piper...
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.
Senior contributor Bill Cox made his first international trip in 1977, flying a new Piper...
Read MoreThey’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...
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