FOR THE AVIATION-CURIOUS
Look up.
Get curious.
Remarkable airplanes. Clever engineering.
Something new to learn.
No pilot certificate required. Just curiosity.
Explore the cockpit01 / THE SUNDAY BRIEF
Three minutes.
A new perspective.
Make a decision. Understand the why.
Then try it with a little twist.
Make a little room for curiosity. A different brief in the spotlight each Sunday.
02 / THE HANGAR
Meet the machines.
Find the story.
One piston single. One pressurized twin.
Two different answers to the flying question.
BEECHCRAFT / PRESSURIZED TWIN
Baron 58P
A beautiful expression of the Beechcraft idea: capability, craftsmanship, and the possibilities of a good airplane.
03 / TIME BACK
A wider world.
More of your day.
Can flying yourself turn a two-day business trip into a day trip? Sometimes. Change the numbers below and see where the time really goes.
The useful question:
What does it give
back to your day?
TRY A HYPOTHETICAL TRIP
Count it door to door.
THE DAY, COMPARED
3h 45m back in your day
Round trip · flying advantage in this example
Time you could spend with a customer, on another site visit, or back at home.
What is included in this comparison?
This is a hypothetical round trip with identical inputs in both directions. Use your own route distance and average airborne groundspeed, accounting for winds and climb/descent effects. These defaults are not performance claims for a Baron or Cherokee.
The 90-minute ground allowance is an editable total for each one-way journey: access to the departure airport, preflight preparation, taxi and arrival tasks, and transport from the destination airport. Add time for stops, delays, or any other activities your trip needs. Time at the meeting is excluded from both modes.
This estimates travel time only, not cost, range, aircraft suitability, or whether a flight should go. If the inputs favor driving, the result says so. A pilot’s attention belongs to the aircraft, and every business flight needs a practical backup.
04 / INSIDE THE COCKPIT
Every instrument
tells a story.
Explore a real Piper cockpit. Choose an instrument, understand what it tells you, then test your eye.
PIPER PA-28 REFERENCE COCKPIT · EQUIPMENT VARIES BY AIRCRAFT
05 / FIELD NOTES
Worth a closer look.
PICK YOUR NEXT CHALLENGE
Think you know?
Make your call.
Two questions. An explanation.
One idea to take away.
A LITTLE FRIENDLY COMPETITION
Think you can
beat the pilot?
One airplane. Narrow gaps. A very short lesson in overconfidence.