3 Tricks to Trim Fuel Costs I have a friend who owns a 36 Bonanza, and though his airplane has always been a dozen or so knots faster than mine, he’s consistently envied my bird’s lower fuel burn. At max cruise settings, Bob’s...

Forty years ago, the goal was 200 mph. Today, it’s 200 knots. Fast feels good. For those of us obsessed with clocking along at the velocity of a Lamborghini, speed is the kinesthetic equivalent of beauty. Unfortunately, speed in...

Keeping track of the time/speed/distance equation is only part of fuel management. It was the Christmas holiday, and I was on my way back from the Bahamas to Venice, Florida. Joe Ponte, public relations director of Piper, had...

Far from menacing monsters, mountains can be your best friends. The Pan American Highway threads its way steeply uphill out of Santiago, Chile, climbing into the rarified air of South America’s high Andes. The road rises with...

Learning to fly is a big investment, but the payback can outstrip the cost by a factor of several thousand. Pete runs a dental practice and learned to fly so he could transport his family back and forth to his vacation retreat...