Author: Jamie Beckett

There are remedies for virtually all the obstacles we are likely to encounter in flight and in life. The real […]

The Cub represents the essence of flight and nothing more. A cluster of welded steel tubes wrapped in a blanket […]

A general aviation enthusiast designed a rocket to go to space. A general aviation enthusiast piloted that vehicle up and […]

What I didn’t know 36 years ago when I took to the skies for the first time is that I […]

Pilots deal with emergencies differently than most non-pilots. We tend to take a more productive approach to non-emergencies as well. […]

It has been said that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Some guy named Shakespeare wrote […]

A well-managed traffic pattern can handle a dozen aircraft or more at one time without undue risk to safety or […]

Many small GA airports are the home to a few dozen or maybe a couple hundred aircraft owners who use […]

We in the U.S. have the remarkable freedom to fly an aircraft from coast to coast in airspace that asks […]

Over the course of my career as a flight instructor and aviation advocate, I can’t even count the number of […]