My latest aviation-related feature article, "Work, Not Play," from the May 2008 edition of Twin & Turbine magazine, is now available as a PDF from one of my SkyDrive folders. It's a overview of the e

Many pilots stick pins in a wall chart to track the airports they've landed at during their trips. I've been doing the 21st-century equivalent with Google Earth so that I can zoom in and roam around t

I launched in the Extra 300L from its winter home at 61B at 0600 PDT Saturday and cruised to KVIS via DAG and PMD, etc. on the dogleg to California's Central Valley (I don't like to fly the lonely str

I’ve longed use the Web and PC-based flight-planning tools to check the weather, lay out and file flight plans, and retrieve information about airports. Voyager, my favorite flight-planning program, a