.... from US Homeland Security paranoia, no less!
Yes, you know me from posting about flight simulator topics, but real aviation is also close to my heart, and more in specific the history of it, old planes and old airfields. Here's a story you have to hear if you have any fuel running through your veines..... and why else would you read an AOPA blog !!?? Read More >>
For many of us, the initial thrill of aviation came from military aviation as it was portrayed in the movies and on television. Read More >>
On April 20th, I had to do a night operation in order to complete my training. I needed to do ten total takeoffs and landings at night as the sole manipulator of the flight controls. I first did eight takeoffs and landings with my instructor at my home airport. I completed the task without problems and then did the next two takeoffs and landings on a different night and at a different destination. I was required to fly at least 100nm roundtrip at night to move on with the training, so I flew from Independence State Airport (7S5) to Portland International Airport (PDX).
It has happened again.
An evil-doer private pilot and his co-conspirator wife took an always-dangerous single engine Cessna and flew it right near, gasp, some monument in DC. This resulted in a miltary response with F16s escorting the pilot out of the area. Innocent pilots have been caught numerous times flying into the Capitol's restricted airspace. It has always been accidental. No any actual terrorist has been caught. Face it, the only people terrorized in these incidents are the wayward pilots themselves. There could be a terrible mistake one day and the government will have to answer for it. Read More >>
Notice the cool primary flight display (or “PFD”)? Notice the yoke just below it? Notice that there’s no hand on the yoke? Read More >>
Every pilot wants to nail every takeoff, landing, maneuver, and radio call every time. It’s just the way we are. But when do you really, really want to get those things right?
When you fly mom. Read More >>
Long before the outrageous airline disaster movie-farce Airplane! had audiences rolling in the theaters laughing, there was the over-the-top serious thriller that inspired it. A friend and collegue mailed me Arthur Hailey's Runway Zero-Eight to read. Hailey wrote a series of airplane disaster books, including Airport, which inspired the movie series. Read More >>
Tell us your pilot story for a chance to win prizes!
The producers of "A Pilot's Story" are pleased to announce the launch of the first contest in connection with the film. You now have an opportunity to have your own "Pilot Story" featured in the film if you are the "Grand Prize" winner of the contest.
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The producers of A Pilot's Story just returned from a trip in Florida, driving over 1200 miles from Jacksonville to Tampa over a period of 6 days. They conducted interviews with aviators such as Patty Wagstaff and Ret. Air Force Col. Joe Kittinger and many more notable aviation writers and professionals such as Amy Laboada, Jeb Burnside and James Wynbrandt. Read More >>
I kept busy last week washing an airplane and as I do with most menial tasks, my mind began to drift. Perhaps I was hungry from the physical labor of washing, or maybe I have some kind of eating disorder, but I started thinking about food....a lot of food. The first thought was simple enough, "I wonder what I'm going to have for dinner?" but then my mind really began to wander as I began thinking about the places that the aircraft I was washing has taken me to and what delicious foods I have eaten there. Read More >>
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