By Jenna Rose, EAA 1576771 This piece originally ran in the April 2026 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Flying is fun. It’s even better when it’s done safely enough to fly again another day. In an effort to improve safety, let’s look at a handful of mistakes that...

By Mike Davenport, Vancouver, British Columbia Luddite — Modern definition: a technophobe, one who avoids modern technology. Being more than a little challenged by the digital inroads into society in the last decade, I find myself more and more confused, and even...

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Hal and Tom are joined by Jakob Brouillette, EAA’s flight proficiency program manager, to discuss EAA’s Sport Pilot Academy — an immersive, three-week sport pilot training program. The Green Dot, sponsored by Crewchief Systems, is a...

This piece originally ran in the April 2026 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. The Martins’ journey with EAA began in the late 1980s when Cindy Martin, EAA 288433, and her husband, Robert, EAA 1034583, first attended EAA Oshkosh. A few years later, they began...

By Samuel Schank, EAA 1678226 I’m not sure exactly how I caught the aviation bug, but it’s safe to say I caught it at a young age. It may have had something to do with the fact that I was at a very impressionable age during the late ‘90s, when the Disney Channel was...