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Politics for Pilots

Imperfect is okay

By Jamie Beckett · December 29, 2020 ·

If we set our personal expectations at perfection, we’re really working against our own best interests. The effort to give a perfect performance becomes counter-productive. This may transform a challenging goal into an impossible dream.

The luckiest days of the year

By Jamie Beckett · December 22, 2020 ·

Imagine if every member of your EAA chapter, your pilot association, or your coffee klatch pitched in the cost of one hour of flight time to establish a scholarship to help local kids learn to fly.

Misinformation, miscommunication, and just plain wrong

By Jamie Beckett · December 15, 2020 ·

What do you believe? And when you answer that question, consider how sure are you the answer you give is based on a truth rather than an opinion.

The gift of flight

By Jamie Beckett · December 8, 2020 ·

What if your significant other, your child, or your best friend found they’d been gifted with an opportunity to fly?

The Age of Discovery never ends

By Jamie Beckett · December 1, 2020 ·

Learn to Fly Here sign

All of us who fly have been verbally battered by those who are too constrained in their own thinking to see a bigger, better life for themselves.

I believe, therefore, I can’t

By Jamie Beckett · November 24, 2020 ·

It’s time to do away with the preconceived notion of not being able to solve our own problems.

Life really is all about perspective

By Jamie Beckett · November 17, 2020 ·

The gift of flight, the willingness to confront a challenge and overcome it, is far more important than simply achieving the altitude to have a better view.

The wind will blow

By Jamie Beckett · November 10, 2020 ·

“Probably” should never have a place in your flight planning process.

Playing favorites

By Jamie Beckett · November 3, 2020 ·

We can turn each flight review into an adventure, a learning experience that we will remember fondly for a long time.

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