by Joni M Fisher | Feb 22, 2020 | Aviation
Congratulations to Jack Brown’s Seaplane Base in Winter Haven, Florida, for 40 years of flight training in Piper aircraft. It’s likely that Brown’s Seaplane Base has trained more people to fly seaplanes than any other flight school in the world, at 500 students a...
by Joni M Fisher | Feb 22, 2020 | Aviation, Journalism
If you fly long enough, you will experience a problem in flight. Maybe you’ll hit a bird. Maybe your wings will ice up. Maybe you’ll get distracted in your pre-landing check and forget to lower the gear. Fuel lines get vapor lock. Gunk clogs the fuel injector. A bug...
by Joni M Fisher | May 6, 2018 | Aviation
We almost got to ride in a 1928 Ford Tri-Motor. Giana loves airplanes. We bought her a red Avcomm headset when she was three. She’s flown in a Cessna 210 and an RV-6 which she calls “Papa’s red plane.” Over Christmas vacation, she was playing in the park when she...
by Joni M Fisher | Dec 6, 2017 | Aviation, Humor, Journalism
My husband, a physician, and pilot joined the Flying Physicians organization and so we flew to their annual meeting in New Orleans in 1998. When the editor of the Flying Physician magazine heard that I was a pilot he asked me to write about why so many wives refuse or...
by Joni M Fisher | Oct 18, 2017 | Aviation, Humor
“Why can’t you take up golf?” I pleaded when my husband Maury announced he was going to learn to fly. First the red sports car, now this? My second reaction was to check our life insurance policies and our will. Was this part of a man’s ‘go-fast’ stage of life? He...