Flight Training Magazine

Airplanes must eventually turn if they are to be used to get anywhere, a fact of logic that the Wright brothers realized early on.

On December 22, 2009, an American Airlines flight from Miami to Kingston, Jamaica, overran the runway at around 65 miles an hour, went through a fence, across a road, and came to rest on the beach.

Pilots make a distinction between IFR and “hard IFR” that makes little sense.

Flying in fog is challenging, even for the most experienced pilots.

By Alexander Sack

Simulator training is an extremely valuable training tool for staying proficient, and having access to even a basic home sim can revolutionize your preflight planning.

It’s hard to imagine anyplace more supportive of pilots and aviation enterprises than Bentonville, Arkansas.

By Kevin Knight

It was a perfect day for flying 70 miles north of Seattle to Orcas Island. My wife and I were flying to a friend’s birthday party in a 1983 Cessna TR182 with retractable landing gear.

Airplanes must eventually turn if they are to be used to get anywhere, a fact of logic that the Wright brothers realized early on.

Operating at a nontowered airport can be a complex melting pot of all types of aircraft, flown by pilots of vastly different levels of experience. Throwing your IFR training flight into the mix can be tricky.

As a pilot for a passenger airline, one major responsibility of my job is to find the smooth air. Most days, Mother Nature makes this task easy. Some days, however, a good ride can be as elusive as the winning Powerball ticket. So how do we deal with it?