Articles about obese airline passengers are popping out periodically in mainstream media. The same questions are repeated again and again: Should airlines charge more for obese passengers ? Should obese passengers pay for more than one seat ? Should...

My wish for the seventh day of Christmas is not something you can find in a pilot shop but we all want it: a safer aviation. The safety record of General Aviation is excellent but we can work altogether towards a better one. So for this day, let me...

Pilots live a permanent love story with the sky and I’m no exception. The sky is constantly changing, and no day looks like another one to those who know how to observe it. I found three wonderful pictures, three fully different skies, and I can’t find...

On the first day of Christmas… I wish me a Cirrus SR-22. I love high-performance, complex aircraft. They are a must for serious IFR flying. Good climb performance, fast en-route and on the approach. They make the integration with airliners at busy...

Last Saturday, I drove two hours to an airport in southern Germany, to meet Dan and go flying in the Alps with a DA40 TDI together. Dan is a reader of this blog and asked me if I could act as safety pilot as he has not a lot of experience flying the...