The Wannabe Aviatrix

If yesterday felt like a lesson in what not to do when learning to fly tailwheel aircraft, today felt like how to fix all of those errors a...

In aviation, one way to think of a stall is as an event caused by a lack of air flowing over the wings of an airplane, which leads to a defi...

Today marked my return to working on my tailwheel endorsement. My last three scheduled dates for training were all canceled because of poor ...

The last time I posted here was a week ago to report on my introduction to tailwheel flying after I had logged one hour of it in a Super Cub...

Superlatives are appropriate for descriptions of aviation and I definitely use them. I've applied them to the "biggest" plane ...

Yesterday I resumed some IFR training, including attempting my first instrument approach with my CFI talking me through it. I can definitely...

I flew as PIC today after a hiatus of a little over five weeks. It has not felt good at all not to fly: I've worried about the atrophy o...