As a general aviation pilot, I often find myself in cold environments. Not only cold weather but the chill that comes along with gaining altitude. Luckily, when the engine is running, I’ve got some cabin heat to warm me up. However, that doesn’t help much for my pre-flight walk-arounds and fueling stops! Because of this, …
As a new student pilot, you might wonder why you need a specialist pilot flight bag at all? After all, you may reason, how much stuff do you have to take on a flight, particularly if you rarely go flying for more than an hour or so. And you can’t imagine being airborne for longer …
As a pilot, do you really need to wear sunglasses?  Many people think that you don’t and that pilots merely wear them to look cool. Indeed, as a new pilot many years ago, that was how I felt. I didn’t wear spectacles, I didn’t wear sunglasses for driving, and I saw no good reason …
I first heard about kneeboards for pilots when I was a very new flying student, way back in the 1990s. At the end of a lesson in which I was trying to write down important flying information on a notepad balanced on my lap, my instructor told me that I needed to buy a kneeboard. …
Not all flights fit the profile that requires a flight helmet, but there are a few cases where it is prudent to have one. Operations that routinely involve proximity to Mother Earth and/or other aircraft are also prime candidates for unexpected or unintended contact between the parties involved. There are cases where the difference between …
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