Author: Jamie Beckett

Flying still fills me with a sense of awe. Even after all these years I have never become blasé about […]

About 100 years ago the place we recognize as Tampa International Airport, one of the largest, busiest airports in Florida, […]

As pilots, aircraft mechanics, aviation business owners, and interested residents, it is in our best interest to offer ourselves for […]

The question each of us must ask ourselves is this: Do I really want to be minimally qualified? Would my […]

For all the fear, negativity, and derision we hear in the news and on social media, I continue to believe […]

While we might like to believe we’re on top of things and fully competent, the truth is well over half […]

The devil’s advocate in me thinks the better lesson is: “You want to land and takeoff with a headwind whenever […]

It’s been decades since I took that first flight lesson, but my desire to test myself, to better myself, to […]

The unintended consequence of providing sufficient facilities to one group naturally limited the availability of those facilities to another. This […]

For the past 35 years WAI has held an annual conference where pilots, mechanics, administrators, and more gather in the […]