I Am a Pilot

I learned to fly at a small airport in Marlboro Mass. The runway was less than 1700 feet long with a 50 foot obstruction (trees) at one end and a street with power lines on the far side at the other. It wasn't a difficult field to fly...

I have wanted to fly since I was 6 years old. I finally took my first flight at 19. I can't say that I've loved every minute of my flight training. Some of it was hard. Some of it made me want to quit.
 
Every time I wanted to...

This actually happened, no fake!
A few years ago we were in New York airspace and overheard the following conversation:
Pilot: Southwest 435, flight level 350, checking in.
Controller: Roger, Southwest 435.
Pilot: Southwest 435...

I wouldnt trade my pilots license for the world--when I fly Im free.

I am a student pilot with about 21 hours in the cockpit.  It's taking me longer than I anticipated, but I'm not in any rush.  I like going at my own pace.

I am a LTA pilot. Lighter than Air, or Hot Air Balloons. Some people do not consider this piloting, but it is flight, and in an FAA approved craft.
At a rally several years ago, I was with another pilot, and we flew an astronaut...

I've been lucky to never have had an in-flight emergency, but I did have a small scare flying with a co-worker once. Frank owned an older Beachcraft straight tail Bonanza and had many hundred hours on it. He had the plane tied down...

I was on a cross country flight a while after my first solo flight. I was still flying out of Marlboro airport in Mass. in Cessna 150's. Gradually my range extended out further away from my home airport as my instructor approved me...

I was in a flying club that owned a Citabria for about ten years. (I've already told the story about how I first found this airplane). The Citabria is a small two seater tail dragger, high wing monoplane. It is a nice aerobatic trainer...

This is something that does not affect US PPLs so much. In Europe, you fly a few miles and they are speaking in other tongues. English is the international aviation language but foreign flyers may only land at airfields that offer an...

From what I was told to fly, you either have it or you dont. It is there or it is not. Aviation runs through my blood rather I like it or not and I am third possibly fourth generation of family that is in aviation. When I was in high...

I learned to fly at a little airport in Marlboro Mass in the late 1970's There were two FBO's on the field, Don's Flying Service (Don owned the airport and ran a flight school), and Dor Aviation. Dor was a dealer for Belanca Aircraft...

I had my first Solo on 11th Mar this month after 12 hours of dual on Mushak MFI 17 ; it was awesome ; but now every coming day rather than improving ; im forgetting all i learned ! probably i've relaxed :/

Some years before Hurricane Andrew flatened South Dade county Florida, the Air Force would open Homestead AFB to the local public one day a year. Private pilots could fly into the AFB, and everyone got a tour of the place.

I flew my...

I learned how to fly at a small airport in Marlboro Mass in the late 1970's. The runway there was 14/32 and less than 1700 feet long. The flight school used Cessna 150 aircraft which could easily handle the short runway with ease. I...

   It started out as any day for me would, walking out to my plane, a C-5 Galaxy.I took off as I normally would. I was in the air over the Iran/Iraq border going to pick up a damaged Humvee. I was nearing the base and boom! I started...

So, it took me several years to get my Dad in an airplane with me.  Not that he's scared of flying...he flies like 100,000 miles a year...it just never worked out right.  We weren't allowed to just take aircraft out at my...

One of the scariest things to do for the first time in an airplane is to make an extended flight over a body of water. If you are high enough you can always glide back to land if you lose the engine, unless the width of the body of...