I'm jumping into one of the most dissected and debated issues in the aviation world. If you want to start a lively discussion with a group of pilots, ask for their opinions on the safest, most ...
In the heart of a storm, pilots battle fierce crosswinds at Amsterdam Airport, with close-up footage capturing engines nearly ...
When well above the runway, one way to compensate is to “crab”—turn the airplane into the wind so that the course being flown and the crosswind cancel each other out and we can track the runway ...
The article discusses two primary crosswind landing techniques: the "slip" method (author's preference, involving lowering the upwind wing and using opposite rudder throughout final approach and ...
Between several weeks of downtime at the avionics shop and a bunch of personal distractions, my piloting skills had accumulated a layer of rust back at the end of 2023. By then, what I and a few ...