Politics for Pilots

I hope that one day the entire rulebook for every aspect of our lives will boil down to three entries.

I’ve got a fair amount of experience with folks asking for help in such inept ways, they never get it.

Could the Wright brothers have imagined their prototype Flyer would lead to aircraft that could cross continents and oceans carrying 100 people or more?

“I can’t” is a dangerous limitation we put on ourselves.

I’ll stop flying one day, but the departure from the left seat will be on my terms.

It’s a therapy session disguised as a pilot’s debrief. It’s a support group that meets in a hangar.

If just 10% of active CFIs took on the challenge of training one student a year for free, that could result in as many as 5,000 new pilots each year.

Thirty years ago, after wasting an inordinate amount of time and money at a series of local flight schools, I moved more than 1,000 miles away in my quest to become a professional pilot. In less time than I had already invested in getting my private pilot certificate, and for an amount of money that […]