Does anyone dispute the need for paper charts for pilots? I hope not. Likewise, there can be no doubt about the rapid rise of digital chart usage. More and more general aviation pilots (and airlines and flight departments for that matter) are adopting “appified” navigation via [insert app here] on Apple’s iPad and a few […]
How cool are we?
Touting family business in her December 2011 column for Inc. magazine, columnist Meg Cadoux Hirshberg asked for input from her readers. One struck a chord: “Not many kids have their dads pilot them to summer camp or get to watch fireworks from the air. My former company, Rokop Corporation, which supplied continuous casting machines to […]
Self serve fuel at Payette
Payette Airport (S75 – Idaho) has a self service fuel system now in operation as reported in the December issue of The Flyline (the official newsletter of the Idaho Aviation Association). Of note: both 100LL and 91 Octane Mo-Gas is available. The association is also encouraging mo-gas users to download and fill out Idaho Form […]
Auction for Angels set for Dec. 9
The Aviation Club at Clover Park Technical College will host a charity auction, Auction for Angels, on December 9 (7-9 pm) in the hangar at the South Hill Campus of Clover Park Technical College (17214 110th Ave E, Puyallup WA 98374). Proceeds from the auction will the non-profit Angel Flight West. Angel Flight West is […]
‘The Nation’s Hangar’
“The Nation’s Hangar: Aircraft Treasures of the Smithsonian” peers into the aircraft collection that is the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The book packs more than 225 full-color and 75 black and white photos in its 254 pages. Author F. Robert Van Der Linden offers much detail beyond the pictures. The […]
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CPA November/December newsletter online
The newsletter for the California Pilots Association is online and available for download here.
50 years of safe flying
Ohio’s Tom Root was awarded the Wright Brothers “Master Pilot” Award in September. He applied for the award “based on a lifetime of single pilot/photographer with over 5,000 hours doing aerial photography.” The plaque presented to Tom was in “appreciation for your dedicated service, technical expertise, professionalism, and many outstanding contributions that further the cause […]
CPA announces 2012 courses
“You will learn more about your Cessna airplane than 99% of Cessna owners ever will,” says Cessna Pilots Association Executive Director John Frank. That is, if you take the CPA Systems and Procedures Course. Each instructor is an experienced mechanic, aircraft owner and high-time pilot. The course takes the Cessna owner through all the aircraft […]