… at the airport the other day. A friend and colleague actually witnessed a very good landing of mine. It almost never happens that your good landings have a witness – and it almost always happens that the bad landings…
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Choosing a Flight Instructor
Of all the challenges facing a student pilot, the most important may well be choosing the right instructor. With no experience and little guidance, you are supposed to select someone who will influence your life more than you can imagine.…
Posted in Training Topics
Training Airplanes
Unless you’re as strange as me and my taildragger mates, you probably don’t want to learn to fly in a J-3 Cub, Citabria, Decathlon or some other tailwheel type – although there are strong arguments for such training. We’ll save…
Posted in Training Topics
Things I think I think
I’ve been known to ramble on (and ramble on and ramble on) about flight training topics, and blog-writing can, in some hands, become a pompous self-indulgence. I’ll try to ramble as little as possible in these posts and become as…
Posted in Personalities