What are your options when an air traffic controller tells you to “land and hold short”?

Your pilot logbook is your aviation résumé. It documents your education, skills, certifications, and work experience. And, like a résumé, you will need to present your logbook(s) at every pilot job interview for the rest of your career.

You don’t have to have a degree in physics or be able to recite the definition of coefficient of friction to understand the effects of hydroplaning.

It began with a discovery flight. Jess Ellwanger’s interest in aviation blossomed when his father sent him aloft as a gift for his fourteenth birthday. From there he continued training through high school, passed his checkride at 18, and moved on to instrument and commercial ratings. It was not until he became a CFI in 2020, though, that came to appreciate the importance of pairing compatible students and instructors.

On a recent flight with an instructor, operating a new-to-me aircraft type, I was once again reminded that mistakes happen, even to the best pilots, and also to the best air traffic controllers.

There’s a lot to look at on the flight deck of a modern training aircraft.

In primary training, go-arounds are practiced routinely to ensure student pilots are comfortable aborting a landing if, for any number of reasons, the pilot deems it unsafe to continue. But what about aborting a takeoff?

The foundation of all maneuvers is plain-vanilla, straight-and-level flight.