“Local airfields are hubs of economic activity and bring millions of dollars annually to rural communities and allow small businesses, and the jobs they create, to stay in those areas. We believe that Congress should work to find ways to support and strengthen the small business economy of rural America through aviation, not unfairly tax it.”
— Bob Stallman, president, American Farm Bureau Federation
“My legacy is going to be the youngsters that I have either taught or that I have influenced in one way or another. As far as I’m concerned, there isn’t a greater honor. There just isn’t.”
— Col. Mary Feik, upon receiving NAA’s Brewer Trophy
“A flight unexamined is not worth logging.”
— Author and CFI Rod Machado
“A single runway incursion accident prevented, or the prevention of another mid-air accident, are the headlines of the past. We will not read about them in the future because of what ADS-B will become to aviation safety.”
— Capt. Bart Roberts, managing director of flight operations for American Airlines, at a roundtable discussion of the nation’s air traffic control system
“The FAA just can’t get experienced applicants to enter the workforce and take over for veteran controllers for whom the only incentive the agency is providing seems to be a foot in the rear end, out the door into retirement.”
— Patrick Forrey, president of the air traffic controllers union, on the FAA’s offer of a $20,000 incentive to attract new, experienced controllers