Inflight Pilot Training

MARCH 30, 2025

An instrument rating unlocks access to: Airports with IFR approaches (ILS, RNAV, VOR, etc.) Better stick-and-rudder control, smoother handling, and more exact navigation, even during VFR flights. Understand and Use Modern Avionics Todays cockpits are more technologically advanced than ever. A busy Class B airport? The result?

Pilot 52

Pilot Weather Approach Visual Flight Rules 52

Air Facts

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Beginning almost forty years ago, I spent time in the cockpit with a series of pilots whose influence I have only recently started to appreciate. Beginning almost forty years ago, I spent time in the cockpit with a series of pilots whose influence I have only recently started to appreciate. I’ve been a lucky man, indeed.

NDB 52

NDB Checkride VOR Approach 52

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

If the runway could not be made my plan was to put the aircraft down in the field west of the airport close to the VOR. When power was added, there were brief pitch oscillations before the plane departed the left side of the runway, as if P-factor and lack of right rudder input were present.

Gross Weight 98

Gross Weight Runway Airplanes Pilot 98

Air Facts

APRIL 10, 2024

There are pictures of me in the back cockpit of my dad’s war surplus PT-19 and the rear seat of a rented PA-12. The written test had 25 questions and the hardest thing on the practical was explaining what VOR was and how it worked. Rudder stomping landings in the Cessna 180 that hated to stay in a straight line on the ground.

Pilot 52

Pilot General Aviation VOR Cockpit 52

Professional Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

It started out as a routine engine failure, but escalated rapidly when we began to smell what we thought at first was smoke, but which turned out to be oil, in the cockpit. After spending decades in the cockpit of a major airline, it was difficult getting back into general and corporate aviation. John Pulis ATP/Helo/CFII/A&P.

Pilot 40

Pilot Runway NOTAMs TWR 40