Author: William E Dubois

Unlike the typical rusty pilot, the rusty student pilot needs more than a flight review to get flying again. We’ll […]

Haven’t flown in a while and ready to get back into the cockpit, but aren’t sure what to do? Our […]

Almost nobody on the planet truly understands insect aerodynamics — and the few who do can’t explain it to the […]

Riley, a CFI candidate’s non-pilot flying companion from Florida, asks: “So what’s rotating when you say ‘rotate’ during takeoff? It […]

There are a lot of stumbling blocks in the way of accurately turning on Pilot Controlled Lighting, so it may […]

Sandra, a private pilot from Arkansas, writes: As I was flying into a small Class-D airport the other day, I […]

When a plane is damaged in a crash, there must be a record of it somewhere, right? Not according to […]

Truth be told, the four-letter word LIFT is a lot more complex than we are taught in flight training. This, […]

The FAA’s Inclusive Language Summit combined two of our columnist’s favorite things: Aviation and Language. William E Dubois gives us […]

The cost of a quality airplane paint job borders on the astronomical. But, in fairness to the paint shops, that’s […]