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Opinion

Common misconceptions about unleaded avgas

By Ben Visser · March 7, 2025 · 14 Comments

Why can’t general aviation switch over the unleaded gas as easily as the automobile industry did?

Human Factors: Déjà vu all over again

By William E. Dubois · March 6, 2025 · 7 Comments

People just aren’t getting the memo: The quickest way to kill yourself in an airplane is to pressure yourself to fly beyond your capabilities — whether those capabilities are weather, equipment, certification, experience, or simply how much energy you have left over from the day before.

Ask Paul: Does it make sense to add turbo to my Cherokee 6?

By Paul McBride · March 5, 2025 · 3 Comments

Even though this is a reasonable idea, it just is not a smart move financially.

The tenacity of why

By Jamie Beckett · March 4, 2025 · 3 Comments

Wright Flyer first flight

Never lose the childlike innocence that allows us to ask why so often when we were young. Cherish it as a gift. Too many of us push it out of our minds in an attempt to cast off childish things in favor of adulthood. It’s the dreamers who do big things. That has always been the case.

Martin bombers: From World War I and beyond

By Frederick Johnsen · February 27, 2025 · 5 Comments

Glenn Martin, characterized by some biographers as a prim and proper son who doted on his mother, was also an aviation visionary who leapfrogged his early bomber successes into a growing line of warplanes for the Air Force, Navy, and foreign customers.

Internalize the lesson

By Ben Sclair · February 26, 2025 · 1 Comment

How do you best learn? Positive reinforcement? Admonishment for mistakes made? Writing and re-writing the lessons learned? And when you learn something, how do you internalize that lesson?

It’s a numbers game

By Jamie Beckett · February 25, 2025 · 16 Comments

The general public sees driving as relatively safe and flying as generally risky. But the numbers tell the real story.

Do they really want to hear from us?

By Ben Sclair · February 19, 2025 · 11 Comments

The juxtaposition of the Piper AD story and the story that followed put a smile on my face.

The rule about rules

By Jamie Beckett · February 18, 2025 · 11 Comments

“You know,” he said, “many a pilot has been buried on a sunny day because they chose to fly when they shouldn’t have.”

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