Remarks

Often I’ve railed against the inability of approved aviation training devices (sims) to mimic the aircraft we fly. If your panel has had any...

Recently I realized that there are VFR pilots, VFR pilots with an instrument rating, and instrument pilots. Which are you? Reading this, you are...

Watsonville, California, is where my Cessna 340 and I used to be based. It’s also where, as I write this, just a few days...

Although my Twin-Cessna 340 has been amazingly reliable, it is still a complex aircraft with two turbocharged engines, pressurization, and known-ice certification, among other...

Years ago, I wrote an article for these pages in which I opined that there was no need or fiscal justification for the dual...

Frequently we discuss that complying with the regulations isn’t necessarily safe. The common example is instrument currency where six in six isn’t always enough...

Every once in a while, we get an opportunity to promote general aviation, or just to expose someone to our preferred mode of travel....

Simulators first made a believer of me when I got a Pacer Mk II in 1978. In 10 years, I put over 1000 hours...

Recently I attended a Rusty Pilot session and learned (or re-learned as the case may be) several aspects of our aviating world that laid...

When I needed (well, wanted) a step-up airplane 20 years ago, I decided it would be a twin. Ultimately, we sold our Mooney and...

Each new year presents an opportunity to review the last 12 months. Like our editor in 2020, 2021 saw me receive the FAA Wright...

Mental processes of multitasking are not well understood and probably few of us look at this from the perspective of flying. We scan and...