by EAA | Mar 9, 2025 | aircraft maintenance, checkpoints, Column, Flying Tips, Member Stories, Sport Aviation
By Vic Syracuse, EAA Lifetime 180848 This piece originally ran in Vic’s Checkpoints column in the January 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Over the years, I have written some product reviews in my columns, specifically regarding items I chose to install in...
by EAA | Feb 28, 2025 | Classic Instructor, flying, Flying Tips, Member Stories
By Steve Krog, EAA 173799 This piece originally ran in Steve’s Classic Instructor column in the January 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Are straight-in approaches good or bad? This sometimes becomes a hot topic when a pilot has experienced the situation. A...
by EAA | Feb 22, 2025 | Column, Flying Tips, Stick and Rudder
By Robert N. Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Robert’s Stick and Rudder column in the January 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. It was a blue sky morning at Westerly State Airport (KWST) in Rhode Island, a nontowered airport with two...
by EAA | Feb 4, 2025 | Column, flight instructor, flying, Flying Tips, Sport Aviation
By Steve Krog, EAA 173799 This piece originally ran in Steve’s Classic Instructor column in the December 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. While I was sitting at the picnic table visiting with my hangar neighbor and dear friend, Tom Hegy, EAA 6849, recently,...
by EAA | Jan 26, 2025 | EAA, EAA member, Flying Tips, Member Stories
By Robert N. Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Robert’s Stick and Rudder column in the December 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Unfortunately, for nearly all of us who fly powered aircraft, the need for fuel to keep our airplanes aloft is...
by EAA | Dec 15, 2024 | EAA, EAA member, EAA Sport Aviation, Flying Tips, Member Stories
By Robert N. Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Robert’s Stick and Rudder column in the November 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. For a newly minted private pilot, the approach to Runway 35 at Sky Acres (44N) in New York looked pretty scary....
