NTSB Safety Alerts: General aviation is on the radar and not in a good way! You might have noticed that the NTSB sent out five Safety Alerts last week in response to general aviation safety. Here are NTSB Chairman Debra Hersman’s opening remarks to the Board regarding the issue at hand, “While there is much…
Don’t wait on your dreams! Recently I got a disturbing call from a good friend of mine. He was diagnosed with a disease that will forever clip his wings. This is a life-long aviator in his late 40s. This really punctuates the need to not wait on your dreams. My friend has had a fantastic…
According to Aero-New Network, “Air Force II Won’t Be Ferrying The Vice President Home For Weekends. VP Joe Biden says that he’ll once again be taking the train home to Delaware from Washington for the weekends now that the sequester has grounded Air Force II from weekend trips. But he does not seem to be…
“I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things…” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Does flying lack value? In talking to a pilot friend I hadn’t seen in a while, the topic of flying came up, of course. He mentioned he wasn’t flying and wanted to buy an airplane, but didn’t want anything he could afford. His tastes were beyond his budget and he would rather go without than comprise….
Flying careers are a fickle mistress Two pro pilots meet for the first time and inevitably they will quiz each other on how they came to be in their current role. It’s fascinating that it would even be worthy of discussion and yet this tradition is repeated everyday in two-man cockpits across the globe. You…
Anti Air Cam I pride myself on being a pretty reasonable guy. I’m not quick to judge and I’m pretty considerate of others, but in spite of all that I couldn’t restrain myself from sharing my thoughts on Sport Aviation’s most recent cover-plane. So what is it about the Air Cam that stirs in me…
We have it good in the U.S. Sometimes we as Americans need a dose of reality. Lately there has been an over abundance of negative articles about the decline of general aviation, even on this site. I think we need to take stock in how good we really have it. The punch line is, the…
Flying Wild Alaska Saved My Marriage Ok, just kidding! It didn’t save my marriage, but it may have the potential to significantly enhanced it. Let me explain. My wife is deathly afraid to fly, when I first met her she had to be medicated to go on an airliner. She has gotten better over the…
Security Theatre On the heels of glider pilot Robin Fleming being wrongfully incarcerated in South Carolina, I felt compelled to say a few things about the state of security in the US. Here we have a 70-year-old glider pilot who was such a threat to national security that he was cuffed and put in…