There’s a quintessential movie scene where the aircraft enters a dive, engines screaming, pilots frantically pulling back on the yoke. “We’re going to crash!” someone yells. The pilot pulls harder on the yoke, pitches up at a 45 degree angle, and somehow—miraculously—they recover safely. Here’s the problem with Hollywood’s scenario: pulling back harder on the...Read More

Whether you’ve scheduled your discovery flight or already taken it, chances are you’re hooked. Now you’re looking at that airplane on the ramp with fresh eyes and not as a mysterious machine, but as something you’re about to learn to control. It’s smaller than you expected, simpler than you imagined, and yet somehow still seems...Read More