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My ongoing road to recurrency has seen a few twists and potholes. To recap my journey, I’m an instrument-rated private pilot and former owner of a 1954 V-tail Bonanza—and before that, a two-seat Grumman AA1-B. My flying has been spotty for the past decade or so, and I resolved around the end of last year […]

“It just keeps going,” the lady said as she reached into the baggage area of the Mooney. “How did you get this all to fit?” I smiled and started to brag about being part of the Tetris generation, but then I realized she probably said that to every pilot who flew supplies in. Standing on […]

This week’s blog is by Jeremy King, a senior editor of Plane and Pilot Magazine and Boeing 717 captain for a major airline. He also pens a weekly online column called Words Aloft and this is this week’s offering. This week, I fired up the Mooney and tried to make it to the Triple Tree […]

It was time for our weekly lunch meeting of the local aviation mafia, and we were all at the sandwich shop around the corner from the airport. Our group included yours truly and three guys I had known for years from our shared flying experiences. Once the food had been ordered, delivered, and eaten, we […]

I get AOPA’s point about the latest way enterprising folks are cashing in on the vast taxpayer funded data stream that is ADS-B but the umbrage and high dudgeon being expressed is a layer too thick. We all saw this coming and in fact the use of ADS-B as a billing tool has been around […]

Every year since 2001, I have always taken note of the weather on September 11. It was on that morning back then, as I walked to my car before the early morning drive to work in northern New Jersey, I remember how the day dawned. The sky was sparklingly clear–deep blue and not a cloud […]

By Myron Nelson Airline schedule “meltdowns” seem to be in the news of late. Whether the event is experienced broadly throughout the industry, or confined to a single carrier, one of the first questions that arises is why it is that a disruptive event, like a storm, can last just a few hours, yet it […]

I promised my private pilot student, Ned, a surprise for today’s dual cross-country. He did not expect it to be a journey back to the time of flying dinosaurs. I enjoy teaching him the ins and outs of flying because he always shows up prepared for the flight or at least tries to show up […]

Last week’s blog was more of an update on progress so far on the replacement of 100LL with unleaded high-octane aviation fuels. In the comments section a reader who uses the title BestGlideSpeed gave a long list of questions and criticisms of General Aviation Modifications Inc.’s (GAMI’s) G100UL. Many of the points made by BestGlideSpeed […]

So, after a blissfully uneventful week in fuel news here is where we’re at. The only candidate trying to develop an alternative to 100LL that’s following the clearly preferred method of obtaining approval says it’s impossible to make a “drop-in replacement.” The company that has received an FAA STC approving its high-octane fuel for all […]