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It is spring, isn't it? You wouldn't know it around here. Snow last week, and more tomorrow. But in between, it's been fairly nice. The winds pick up every day, so I keep an eye on those, and toda

In high school I didn’t have 12th grade Math and Physics so the Portuguese civil aviation institute (INAC) says that I need to have some classes and then make an exam before beginning the pilot

Does anyone know what the suffix "H" means to a runway name? C means Center
L means Left
R means Right
T means degrees True But what about H?

Well, its been 2 years since I've flown with my left hand, I wonder if my hand is going to remember how its done? It's official, I've made the list. The only list I've cared about for the past few mon

In the far north, before airplanes and telephones and television and treadmills, people developed some simple games that could be played inside an igloo, using what they had on hand. They were games o

At a friend's blog, a commenter hijacked the comments from out of the blue with this one:

"I would like to ask whether you might want to consider removing Pitchbull (sic) from your blogroll

A friend of mine mentioned that it would be cool to have "a million dollars" to have his own airport. I told him that all you need is space to land an airplane and you can do just that, legally. With

As for any skill, reaching a good level of flying is a mixture of talent and work. For some of us, flying seems simply natural. Give a talented pilot the controls of an aircraft, and he will land it s

Guest: Sun 'n Fun Radio Chairman Dave Shallbetter updates us on the plans for next week's 2008 fly-in... we talk about close-calls with military aircraft, stinky airplanes, and parts falling off in fl

It's been a roller coaster of a couple of weeks, and a real lesson in how important it is to have confidence in one's skills. Frequently, flight (and especially instrument flight) is a microcosm of l

Despite the current crushing workload, the IFR Pilot stole away from the office for a couple of hours yesterday to visit with the Cirrus repr

First I want to say Into the Wild writer and director Sean Penn is an incurable douche-bag and I really wish Mr Hand would have done more then just disc

A description of a typical day's flight from Montreal to Vancouver and return - as a backdrop for a detailed, non-technical description of what an airline pilot does. (check left hand column for serie