Nobody wants an emergency to happen while flying. But everyone should be prepared for one in case it does. Knowing what to do in case...

You can start to feel pretty vulnerable as a pilot, if you spend a lot of your time reading aviation accident reports. Perhaps, for many...

A working group committee of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently released a report based on their review of fatal general...

Studying ways to make pilots more aware of insipient dangers while aloft is an evolving product of aviation research and education...

Skilled airmen are those men and women who are especially proficient at handling their aircraft on the ground and in the air. They...

One of the first rules you’re taught in boating is never to overload your vessel. It doesn’t take much in way of imagination to...

Is there somebody you would not fly with as the pilot-in-command of an aircraft in which you were invited to be a passenger? If a name...

A question that’s been getting asked with increasing frequency over the last decade is the following: Is pilot risk-taking behaviour...

Whenever you move a tire over a wet surface, there is always a risk of hydroplaning. That squeezing of water under the tread generates...

When one thinks of all the things that an aircraft can do, stopping is not one of those things that immediately jump to mind. Given that...

A pitot cover left on, control surface locks still in place, a luggage door hanging open, a tie-down rope still fastened to the aircraft....

A very thin sheet of air lying over the surface of any wing in flight adheres to that wing’s surface. That sheet is called the Boundary...

The crew felt a jolt that rippled through the aircraft. Warning lights flashed: the autopilot disengaged as the tail-mounted engine went...

Three sharp jolts shook the aircraft. It was like hitting speed bumps, while at high-speed in your car. The aircraft rolled 6 degrees to...

Mike Busch knows his stuff. List his education and accomplishments, and you’ll consume half this column. Well-known in aviation for his...

He’d go to the airport hours before any flight. Alone and with no distractions, his attention could then be focussed solely and entirely...

A flock of Canada Geese did a tonne for popularizing their species by forcing the dramatic ditching of an Airbus on New York’s Hudson...

Canadian airspace is divided into seven classifications. Each is identified by a single letter – A, B, C, D, E, F, G – and all follow a...

Airplanes can come in all sorts of configurations, and can perform across the broadest of performance envelopes. They can be single-...

The best landings are usually the result of well-planned and executed approaches. Every airplane’s pilot operating handbook (POH)...