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Celestial Navigation: Let the Stars be Your Guide
Celestial navigation is one of the oldest forms of navigation dating back thousands of years. It can be as simple as following the North Star or as complex as measuring the angular distances between…
Why Airplanes Still Use Dead Reckoning
Dead reckoning is one of the most basic forms of navigation; you simply move in a known direction and record how far you travel going in that direction. Using your old location, you can now compute…
Don't Fail Your Medical! A Pilot's Guide to Aviation Medicals
Most pilots are required to have a medical certificate. This certificate helps to verify that a pilot is healthy enough to safely pilot an airplane. While the medical certificate requirement is a…
How to Pick the Perfect Flight School
So you've decided to become a pilot. Choosing a flight school can be overwhelming. Every flight school has its own personality and style of teaching. You want to find the flight school that's the…
New Year, Better Flying: The Wing Wag's 2026 Resolutions
Happy New Years!Pilots are almost trying to improve their skill. Here at The Wing Wag, we are no different. Join me this week to discuss some of the ways in which I want to improve as an aviator,…
Is Santa’s Christmas Eve Flight Actually Possible?
Santa apologists, sometimes called full-flighters, have long held the belief that Santa himself delivers all the Christmas presents during a single flight around the entire world. My brother Matthew…
5 Questions that Non-Pilots Always Ask
In this episode, I'm going to answer 5 questions that non-pilots always ask me:1. What is causing all of the plane crashes recently?2. What do you do if your engine dies in flight?3. Is turbulence…
Tailwheel vs. Nosewheel: The Great Gear Debate
At first, the vast majority of general aviation aircraft were tailwheels. This all changed in the 1950s when tricycle gear (nosewheel) aircraft became the standard for general aviation. Now…
Where Did All the 3-Engine Airplanes Go?
Trijets, airplanes with 3 jet engines, went from the majority of jet airliners in the 1980s to basically nonexistent today. What caused their initial popularity and their drastic decline? Join us…
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft: The World’s Most Expensive Piggyback Ride
The Space Shuttle Orbiter frequently landed far from its launch site. The orbiter could not fly on its own, so NASA developed the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to bring it back to the launch site at…
Is This the End of GPS?
Imagine that you're an airline pilot flying a standard red-eye route. You've done this route dozens of times before with very little variation, and this time looks to be no different. All of a…
Cedar Key and Beyond: A Couples' Aviation Adventure
Once you get your pilots' license, it's easy to view flying as a chore, something that you must do every month to stay current. The real joy of flying comes from the adventures that having a pilots'…
The Horror of the Heights
Join us this week for a chilling Halloween tale! We will be reading "The Horror of the Heights" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, an early aviation horror story about the creatures that lurk beyond the…
The Balloon Will Rise Again! And This Time to Space!
Aviation was born with the balloon when, in 1783, the first manned hot air balloon rose off the French soil. But ever since the Wright brothers made their first flight out of Kitty Hawk in 1903, the…
Can you put Car Gas in Your Airplane?
Probably not, but maybe. Definitely don't do it without first checking to see if your plane has an auto gas STC. This episode is all about aviation gas (avgas). Why does it still contain lead when…
The Adventures and Headaches of Buying a Cessna 170
Meet the Cessna 170, the tailwheel older brother to the ubiquitous Cessna 172. In this episode, Matthew joins us to discuss why the 170 is such versatile tailwheel aircraft, how we found one, and…
Surviving Hurricane Season
This week, I'm flying solo through the hurricane! As pilots, we are always thinking about weather when we are flying or planning a flight. When you become an airplane owner, you have to worry about…
MOSAIC: The Rise of the Sport Pilots
At Oshkosh 2025, the FAA announced a new ruling called MOSAIC, which stands for Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification. This ruling greatly expands the privileges of sport pilots and…
Why Pilots Wag Their Wings
Welcome to "The Wing Wag"! In this episode, I will be introducing the podcast and explaining what a wing wag is.
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