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One night the Potomac Approach frequency was not very congested. I overheard a pilot talking with the controller about his impending arrival at an...

I enjoy flying kids as part of the EAA "Young Eagles" program. Last year, I had a particularly hilarious day: Two sisters were in the...

I was flying along, monitoring CTAFs and heard the following: “Penn Ridge, Penn Ridge, use caution. Use caution. Multiple parachutes in the air near Penn...

When my girls were young, we planned a trip to visit an old high school friend of my wife's who lived near the beach...

As the World War II story goes … at an advance American fighter base during the North African offensive, mechanics fixed up a left-behind...

Several years ago, I offered to take my young adult son and two of his friends in my Cirrus and drop them off at...

Several years ago, not long after earning my private pilot certificate, I departed the Burlington/Alamance Regional Airport, North Carolina, where I was based. My...

One day I landed at Snohomish County Airport (Paine Field), Washington, after doing some practice approaches in nice actual benign IMC. After I had...

One day while doing an Angel Flight between Santa Monica Airport and Prescott Regional Airport, I heard the following on center frequency: Aircraft checking in:...

When traffic was diminished initially in the pandemic, it sure seemed different flying into New York airspace, with far fewer airplanes and fewer grumpy...