Learning to fly and obtaining a pilot certificate usually takes a few months, with flying lessons two or three times a week. [Courtesy: Meg Godlewski] This is the Experimental Aircraft Association ...

I was 14 when my parents said that if I got straight A’s for a year, they’d pay for flying lessons. I did it, and started learning how to fly. You can fly solo at 16, but I didn’t yet have a driver’s ...

Learning to fly is hard, but hard things are worthwhile. I recently heard an interview with the actor Harrison Ford, who, like me, became a pilot in his 50s.