Myron Nelson
Myron Nelson soloed at 16 and has been a professional pilot for over 30 years, having flown for Lake Powell Air, SkyWest Airlines, and Southwest Airlines. He also flies for the Flying Samaritans, a volunteer, not-for-profit organization that provides medical and dental care in Baja California, Mexico. A first-time builder, Myron currently flies N24EV, his beautiful RV-10. He has also owned a C-150 and a Socata TB-9.
Sensor Sensibilities
In 2011, when I purchased my engine sensor package for the then new Dynon SkyView system, the sensors of choice for fuel and oil...
Weighty Matters
We’ve all been taught the five primary forces of flight—lift, thrust, gravity and drag. (Plus money, but it’s more existential.) Let’s focus on gravity,...
Airpark Living, Continued
Last month, I talked about the various types of airparks available for those so inclined as well as the specific airpark, AZ82, that my...
Airpark Living
Since the very discovery that such a thing existed, I, like many other pilots, have dreamed of airpark living. For the purposes of this...
Flying: Part Science, Part Artform
Many years ago, I had a position in the training department of my regional airline. In addition to the needs of our own airline,...
COVIDity Blues
As I write this, it is the Ides of March in the year that will live in infamy. We are all aviators or we...
Go Around
I just returned from my annual airline recurrent AQP, or Advanced Qualification Program, training. (We sure are an industry and avocation of acronyms.) One...
Headset Histrionics
I logged my first official instructional flight on June 17, 1975, at age 15. I already had my private and an instrument rating before...
Toolcraft
The best tool for certain tasks may require a bit of ingenuity and home shop fabrication. The purpose of this treatise is twofold. First it’s...
Ticket to Fly. IFR or No?
Like hundreds of fellow enthusiasts, the weather kept us out of Oshkosh 2019 on pre-show Saturday, and like dozens of refugees, we hunkered down...
In Case You Missed it
Build It Better: Hope Is Not a Plan
There are always unknowns in any human endeavor, but in aviation, we must think about the ways we can minimize them.
Ask the DAR
Proving compliance with the 51% rule, licensing ELSA or E/A-B, using an LSA commercially.
Flight Review: Buena Venterra
What kind of performance can you get from a turbocharged Rotax 914 engine on the nose of a RANS S-19 airframe? Editor-in-Chief Marc Cook finds out.
