20 Tips for VFR Flight
VFR flying can be more difficult than you might imagine. Investigators study accident statistics...
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Category: Lessons From The Logbook
20 Things to Consider About Night Flying
By Bill Cox Night flying can be profitable. Back in the day when I was young and stupid, long...
Read MoreNEVER Run It Dry
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...
Read MoreFly Cheap! (or at least cheaper) – 3 Tricks to Trim Fuel Costs
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...
Read MoreHow to Fly an Airplane: Rod Machado’s new “How-To” manual hits all the right buttons
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...
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