When I was in my late teens and began the dream of learning to fly I can remember looking at the hourly rates for training in both helicopters and airplanes. What I could not understand was why...
Category: General Aviation
When you walk onto an airplane to take a flight you have probably glanced through the open cockpit door to be greeted with a room that seems to be full of screens, buttons, switches, dials, and...
Many a time I have been walking onto a plane and seen an iPad stuck to the pilot's side window or mounted just to the side of the main instrument panel, but what do they use them for? Surely they...
We have all been driving in a car in the early evening as the sun is setting and the glare it creates is sometimes painful and also be very dangerous. Flying into the sun must also pose the same...
When flying around and the clouds begin to drop or the visibility starts to reduce this is the time that helicopter pilots need to start thinking about the options and alternate plans they should...
It is well known that all fighter pilots wear helmets when they fly, but have you ever seen a pilot flying a large military cargo plane wearing a helmet? Nope, me neither. So why do fighter pilots...