This is the 8th in a series of “12 Days of Christmas” gifts for pilots. You can find links to the previous seven articles on the www.aviationchatter.com web site. Special thanks to Vincent at www.plasticpilot.net for suggesting this...

Flying magazine distinguishes itself with signature columnists that subscribers anxiously await reading each month. As a teenager, I grew up on a diet of hilarious tales spun by Gordon Baxter and airline piloting wisdom from the sage Len Morgan....

Vincent, of the Plastic Pilot blog, published the first of a series of posts on gifts for the twelve days of Christmas. As part of that series, I’m posting my recommendations for the “Second Day” of Christmas. For the first day of...

 Ever since the pilots of NWA 188 overflew their Minneapolis destination, speculation has been rampant about what actually happened in the cockpit. It was widely assumed that the pilots had fallen asleep. Their subsequent explanation that they’d...

Last week, The Legal Broadcast Network released an 11-minute video interview with the attorneys for plaintiffs awarded $16.4 million in damages for a January 2003 fatal crash of a Cirrus SR22. Pilots and flight instructors, particularly those not...