Hawker Beechcraft to emerge from Bankruptcy as Beechcraft If you own a propellor-driven Beechcraft hopefully this is a spot of good news. The idea of having the tooling that makes our precious parts being shipped halfway around the world in China (if that’s how it would have went down), had to be a foreboding thought….

What Should You Do To Help The Declining Pilot Population Editorial There has been a lot published lately on the deterioration of our sport, but I haven’t seen much on what we should be doing to help. Setting aside the barriers, we all know that if you want to fly you will find a way. Our…

NAIA Days: My Flight School Experience Dateline: 1991 With my private license in my pocket I set out to obtain my ratings at the tender age of 20. The plan was to leave my hometown and go to a big school to get all the ratings I would need to start flying for a living…

Misadventures of a C-172 Flight As a starving flight instructor working my tail off to make ends meet, I did some ‘interesting’ flying. (Editors note: no specific dates, locations, or names are used in this story to protect me from any bad-guys that were on the receiving end of this operation)

Arizona Aerobatics Reprinted article by George Norris The sky is a deep Arizona blue and the hint of wind that sneaks around the windscreen in the open cockpit has a nice early morning chill. You quickly check your airspeed and altitude and then start a 40 degree dive for the desert floor 2500 feet below….

Special Report Introduction (updated Oct 5th, 2012) The dwindling number of pilots in the U.S.A. has the attention of a lot of people. There are currently far more questions than answers and it is unlikely that those answers will come from one source. It will take a collective effort to reverse this trend, if indeed…

How to fly as inexpensively as possible  Below I outline some things I have learned over the years, plus brought in some new ideas on how to fly without breaking the bank. This will be centered around the basic requirement of the $100 hamburger mission (2 seats, with several hundred mile range, day VFR) Before…

This is episode #2 of the iFLYblog.com Audiocast. To be fair, this isn’t a podcast in the traditional sense. The audiocast will simply be an audio version of posts that are here on the blog. The truth is, lots of folks like to listen to content rather than read it. Especially people who are on-the-go….

This is my second episode of the iFLYblog.com Audiocast. To be fair, this won’t really be a podcast in the traditional sense. The audiocast will simply be an audio version of posts that are here on the blog. The truth is, lots of folks like to listen to content rather than read it. Especially people…

This is my first episode, not sure why I called it #0, just seemed appropriate.  I am totally new to producing a podcast, but I listen to them all the time. To be fair, this won’t really be a podcast in the traditional sense. The audiocast will simply be an audio version of posts that…