My turn! No, mine! Without proper preflight ûbriefings, you won’t know who’s doing what ûwhen there are two pilots aboard.

About the only chance I get to fly solo anymore is in a single-seat glider. Usually I’m flying with another pilot in the other seat and, quite honestly, that’s the way I like it. In fact, these days it feels very strange to fly without another pilot in the cockpit.

There are many advantages to having a two-pilot crew. The most important facet is the second set of eyes and ears to catch errors and help lower the workload. The second pilot can find approach plates when the approach clearance gets changed to a different runway at the last minute. There’s an extra set of hands to tune the radios, another…