Jeremy King

3 weeks ago | planeandpilotmag.com | Jeremy King

Sporty’s Pilot Shop has a video for almost everything in aviation. Years ago, it advertised a DVD titled “How an Airline Captain Should Look and Act,” one of several in the appropriately named ”What You Should Know” series. It feels more like a video some airline pilot would be made to endure as a punishment for showing up with a sloppy uniform, yet there it was.

1 month ago | planeandpilotmag.com | Jeremy King

With thousands of hours spent aloft, it’s easy for crews to forget what it’s like to view a flight through the eyes of someone who doesn’t fly often. When it comes to our customers with intellectual or developmental disabilities, we might as well be standing on opposite sides of a crevasse, in the dark, trying to throw a lifeline without knowing how far away the other side is.

2 months ago | planeandpilotmag.com | Jeremy King

In November, Mooney owner Alex Melia fired up and flew to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to visit family for the Thanksgiving holiday. He landed in the college town, enjoyed the holiday feast, and flew home having settled his tab with the FBO, which was already higher than he’d anticipated. In a Facebook group of Mooney pilots, he wrote: “There was a football game going on that I had zero interest in, but the FBO charged me a $100 ‘event fee,’ which I begrudgingly paid.