For many people wanting to become a pilot the answer to whether they need a college degree to be successful in aviation is sometimes hard to find. Scouring the job boards for pilot jobs shows degrees...
Category: General Aviation
Sitting in the airport terminal looking out over the vast chaos of a large airport gets people wondering how pilots know what is the right runway to use. Some runways are being used for landing and...
Sitting in the back of an aircraft as it takes off at night leads to some beautiful illuminated scenery until the inky black night surrounds the aircraft in its cloak. So if the passengers see...
There are some fantastic videos out there of large commercial airliners coming into land practically sideways then at the last minute the pilot straightens up and lands or even drops the rear tires...
When I was 15 I was painfully made aware of what ear popping was, or in my case, the lack of ear popping during a descent into Tenerife in the Canary Islands. To be honest, I think that was the...
As a pilot, declaring a Mayday over the radio means that all hell is about to break loose or already has. This is a saying we train to use in the hope that we never do, but when we do it triggers a...