by Charlie Gasmire | Mar 5, 2020 | Aviation FAQs, Pilot Advice
Instrument flying can take significantly more pre-flight planning than easier VFR days where you just show up and go. Not only do you need to plan any applicable departure and or arrival procedures, as well as the approach into your designation airport, you also need...
by Allen Herbert | Nov 3, 2019 | Pilot Advice
The Cessna 172 in one guise or another appears in nearly every pilot’s logbook over the course of their flying career, and there are good reasons for that. The humble 172 makes for a good trainer, a respectable if not outstanding cross-country machine, a solid...
by Charlie Gasmire | Nov 2, 2019 | Aviation FAQs, Pilot Advice
Quite honestly, it wasn’t until years after becoming a pilot that I even thought to ask this question. The only time that true vs. magnetic heading was really emphasized during training was in my cross-country calculations, where I had to always factor in a magnetic...
by Charlie Gasmire | Sep 11, 2019 | Aviation FAQs, Pilot Advice
Aviation technology has experienced massive breakthroughs in the last century since the Wright Brothers first flew in Kitty Hawk. Airframe and propulsion technology have progressed manned flight capabilities from flying two feet off the ground for a few hundred feet...
by Charlie Gasmire | Sep 10, 2019 | Aviation FAQs, Pilot Advice
Those of us who have completed any form of flight training will agree that it is one of the most rewarding and challenging tasks we have ever pursued. Those that had no prior experience or had limited knowledge of flying would also agree that it can feel like taking a...
by Charlie Gasmire | Sep 9, 2019 | Aviation FAQs, Pilot Advice
Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface. It forms when water vapor above freezing comes in contact with a solid surface whose temperature is below freezing. Sometimes you may see this on your plane before departing on an early flight, and you may have...
