It took me longer to fly home than it did to drive up there. Pretty much every pilot has made this joke when battling a strong headwind, slowing your progress. It would have been quicker to drive! Cars are passing us on the highway! Usually it’s not true, it just serves to illustrate how slow…
Airplanes can be fun but at the end of the day, they’re just metal, wood, and composite. The one ingredient required in enjoying aviation is people. I have written before that I am the luckiest guy I know. Line guy to pilot has given me a great life. But without the people that have been…
All of us have reasons that we love airplanes and flying. Maybe it was a parent or other relative that passed their love of aviation on to you. Or maybe you just lived near an airport and were fascinated by the amazing machines that defied gravity to venture to all corners of the earth. …
Being a professional pilot has a lot of advantages. We get paid to fly. I will say it again we get paid to fly! It was a childhood dream of mine to fly for a living, as it was for many pilots in the professional aviation industry. Those who are not flying for a living…
Hi Everyone! As previously mentioned, iFLYblog.com is EXPANDING with NEW CONTRIBUTORS! Joining us today is David Lynn, a C-130H Navigator and blogger. You can read his about page by clicking his name in the ABOUT menu on the iFLYblog.com homepage! Now without further lies and stories, please enjoy this post from contributor David Lynn …
For those of us that live in areas that experience a genuine winter, spring should be the time we attempt to restore our flying back to pre-winter status. That is assuming you don’t fly as much during the cold months. For my friends that live in paradise – yes I’m talking to Ron and Eric…
Here we are at the beginning of May and winter has finally released its firm grip and we can really focus on getting out there and enjoying our passion of flying. I love May because it ushers in the air show and fly-in season for much of the Northern Hemisphere. From this point forth…
By Ron Rapp I’ve been flying sixteen years now, and the specter of user fees has haunted the general aviation community the entire time. Longer, in fact. The history of these proposals has been summarized by AOPA if you care to know the full background, but one thing not many of us remember is that these taxes were…
This is guest post from professional pilot and author, Byron Edgington. He is the author of The Sky Behind Me and you are sure to enjoy this piece. PART 1: Ft. Wolters Texas, Army Helicopter Flight School 1969. Once my Snowbird month was over it was time to head to the flight line where…
Carrying on with the theme from my last post about young people doing amazing things (16 year old Aditya Palnitkar’s book Amazing Airlines) I wanted give another young man a shout-out. It is always a pleasure to learn about someone who has set a big goal and is working hard to accomplish it. …