Category: Air Facts Journal

Alternate airports are a required part of an IFR flight plan when your destination’s weather...

You don’t get to pick your parents and most pilots don’t get to pick the airplane they...

Click on image for full size. The view: the badlands of New Mexico near its border with Texas and...

My student was working hard on his Private Pilot certificate in a Cessna 172, when we entered the...

You have probably seen this before: a GoPro video showing a pilot struggling with large inputs on...

This is not a story about fast jets, elaborate cockpits or major life and death mid-air...

A number of years ago safety and training experts realized few, if any, crashes were being caused...

Click on image for full size. The view: A close encounter The pilot: Elliott Meisel The...

I will admit up front, this is the most scared I’ve ever been in an airplane! We were flying...

I arrive in Fort William-Port Arthur by train in mid-May. Pop has paved the way and I obtain an...

With all sorts of time on my hands due to the coronavirus social distancing, I finally found time...

Flying internationally has its challenges. Culture issues arise, new risks and threats need...