What goes before that, in planning and training, determines what kind of instrument pilot emerges from the process. Here we want to go through what it takes to produce the best and most complete ...

As a child, Curtis Erickson of Savage was fascinated with the air mail pilots who buzzed over his family's farm during the 1930s in Dawson, Minn. Erickson, a Minnesota aviation pioneer in ...

Aspiring professional pilots should begin training immediately and pursue it intensively; compressed, full-time programs are recommended to quickly earn necessary ratings, enhance knowledge retention, ...

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to correct inaccurate information provided to Military.com describing Air Force secretary Heather Wilson's visit to Austin. When Air Force Secretary Heather ...