Bill Cox, Author at Piper Owner Society

Engine Analyzers: Basic tools for VFR and light IFR

Posted by Bill Cox | Avionics |

Piper panel with EI CGR-30P installed. Photo courtesy of Pacific Coast Avionics From the 1960s...

Bill Cox Book, Chapter 17: The Flight(s) of Pink Lady

Posted by Bill Cox | Bill Cox Book |

P-51 Thunder Mustang. Photo by Chris Leipelt The sound is unmistakable. Today, I’d recognize that...

The Dangers of Noise Fatigue

Posted by Bill Cox | Become a Better Pilot, Columns & Opinions, Lessons From The Logbook |

Lightspeed Zulu aviation headset. Photo courtesy of Lightspeed Aviation I was tired. No, beyond...

Formation Without Perspiration

Posted by Bill Cox | Become a Better Pilot, Lessons From The Logbook |

Formation flight needn’t be terrifying or dangerous, provided you stay loose Spitfires in...

My Sky: The Flights and Times of Bill Cox

Posted by Bill Cox | News |

Bill Cox Book, Chapter 5: The Odyssey of Glacier Girl

Posted by Bill Cox | Become a Better Pilot, Bill Cox Book, Columns & Opinions |

P-38 Glacier Girl on display at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012. Photo courtesy of EAA Famed airplane...

Bill Cox Book, Chapter 1: Send in the Clouds

Posted by Bill Cox | Become a Better Pilot, Bill Cox Book, Columns & Opinions |

Later this year, JP Media LLC will publish a book by longtime pilot and writer Bill Cox entitled “My Sky: The Flights & Times of Bill Cox.” It will detail his lifelong travels as a pilot, in the beautifully scripted way in which only Bill can write. This is Chapter 1.

Piper Cherokee 180 Review: Expert Pilot

Posted by Bill Cox | Featured Plane, Piper Cherokee 180, Piper Cherokee Reviews |

Evidence that the Piper Cherokee 180 may be the world’s simplest airplane to fly is more than anecdotal.

20 Tips for VFR Flight

Posted by Bill Cox | Lessons From The Logbook |

VFR flying can be more difficult than you might imagine. Investigators study accident statistics...

20 Things to Consider About Night Flying

Posted by Bill Cox | Become a Better Pilot, Lessons From The Logbook |

Night flying can be profitable. Back in the day when I was young and stupid, long before I...

Fly Cheap! (or at least cheaper)

Posted by Bill Cox | Become a Better Pilot, Lessons From The Logbook |

Lessons from the Logbook 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...

Looking for 200 Knots

Posted by Bill Cox | Become a Better Pilot, Lessons From The Logbook |

Lessons from the Logbook Looking for 200 Knots 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...

Never Run It Dry

Posted by Bill Cox | Become a Better Pilot, Lessons From The Logbook |

Lessons from the Logbook NEVER Run It Dry 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,...

There’s Something about Mountains

Posted by Bill Cox | Become a Better Pilot, Lessons From The Logbook |

Lessons from the Logbook There’s Something about Mountains 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...

Why We Learn To Fly

Posted by Bill Cox | Become a Better Pilot, Lessons From The Logbook |

Lessons from the Logbook Why Learn To Fly? 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...

J3 Cub

Posted by Bill Cox | Featured Plane |

Featured Plane Piper’s Iconic J-3 Cub Floyd Threet was one of the more senior members of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) squadron on Merrill Field in Anchorage, Alaska, when I signed up as a Cadet in 1953. Threet owned perhaps the...

Dakota

Posted by Bill Cox | Featured Plane |

Featured Plane The Piper Dakota: Piper’s answer to the Skylane was well worth the investment Let’s say you manufacture a line of general aviation airplanes that’s fairly competitive with most anything on the market. You’ve been...

Seneca V

Posted by Bill Cox | Featured Plane |

Featured Plane Seneca V Little Big Twin When most twins disappeared in the ‘80s, the Piper Seneca soldiered on. Twenty years later, it’s one of only four piston multis still in production. Right up front, at the risk of...

Super Cub

Posted by Bill Cox | Featured Plane |

Featured Plane A Tale of Two Cubs Born in the ‘30s when airplanes were simpler and tougher, the Cub became an icon of aviation. It was both joyous and sad—and totally unexpected. I was in Florida on editorial business when I...

Warrior

Posted by Bill Cox | Featured Plane |

Featured Plane Piper Warrior Four-Seat Trainer for Two Though now out of production, the Piper Warrior was a capable competitor to Cessna’s Skyhawk. Park a Warrior next to a Skyhawk, and the primary differences would be all too...

Author: Bill Cox

Engine Analyzers: Basic tools for VFR and light IFR

Bill Cox Book, Chapter 17: The Flight(s) of Pink Lady

The Dangers of Noise Fatigue

Formation Without Perspiration

My Sky: The Flights and Times of Bill Cox

Bill Cox Book, Chapter 5: The Odyssey of Glacier Girl

Bill Cox Book, Chapter 1: Send in the Clouds

Piper Cherokee 180 Review: Expert Pilot

20 Tips for VFR Flight

20 Things to Consider About Night Flying

Fly Cheap! (or at least cheaper)

Looking for 200 Knots

Never Run It Dry

There’s Something about Mountains

Why We Learn To Fly

J3 Cub

Dakota

Seneca V

Super Cub

Warrior

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