What the heck is an Ekranoplan? Or the A-90 Orlyonok? Ekranoplans are curious craft, flying a few feet off of the ocean at high speeds completely intentionally. Also known as ground effect vehicles...
A Student Pilot Compares a Low Wing Piper Cherokee to a High Wing Cessna Skyhawk and Learns Ground Reference Maneuvers in Mountain Turbulence February 14th...
Aviation desperately needs flight instructors who are willing to nest for awhile. It was early in the morning when a baby sparrow nested in the tree outside our picture window decided to take its...
Stalls, Slow Flight, and Life: An Emotional and Physical Roller Coaster This last week, I was scheduled to have two flight lessons and I couldn’t be...
Pilots need to spend more time practicing recovery from stalls and spins. A few things bother me. For instance, my wife and I live in San Clemente, California, a few miles away from a nuclear reactor...
IFR Training is a Demanding Aviation Training Marathon. They put you in an airplane, restrict one of your five senses by attaching a medieval ornament to your head, tell you to disregard your sense of...
Finally, I made it back into the sky for more flying lessons! It’s been almost two months to the day that I’ve been ground-bound, and I can hardly put into words...
