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Preflights and distractions
What’s your excuse? One cold day, I was taxiing out to the runway in our Cessna 172 when another pilot says over the Unicom, “Uhhhh, Skyhawk taxiing out, you still have your cowl plugs in.” Ugh, how...
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First time for everything
A family trip to Florida leads to an unexpected clearance Our recent family trip from the Washington D.C. area to visit family and drop our money at Universal Studios in Florida was off to a crummy...
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Father’s Day trip for Mom
It was actually Father’s Day weekend, but this flight was all about Mom. The mission was to pick up my mother at her home on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and drop her at Long Island’s MacArthur...
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Skunked at Mount Snow–again
A late June family wedding was to take place in West Dover, Vermont, at a location about a mile from the Mount Snow Airport. I have had a love/hate relationship with this airport for years. It’s the...
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Destination AOPA Summit
A cutoff low makes for a single-pilot IFR challenge This past September, the Northeast U.S. was plagued by “the low that wouldn’t go away.” This cutoff low-pressure system sat and spun for two weeks...
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When was general aviation’s golden age?
One pilot thinks the late 1960s and early ‘70s. When do you think it was? What era would you consider general aviation’s golden years? A fellow pilot asked me this question recently and it was quite...
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Go-arounds: what’s the big deal?
The go-around. Also known as the missed approach. I’ve never understood the panic that the go-around instills in non-pilots. I ride in the back of airliners to and from work every week and go-arounds...
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Bittersweet victory: breaking Dad’s speed record
The winning flight, from GAI to ENW, in a D55 Baron. When Air Facts resurrected the speed records that it started in 1968, it brought back a flood of memories of my Dad’s participation in the program....
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