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Ben Sclair

Progress at Van’s Aircraft

By Ben Sclair · April 21, 2024 ·

Bankruptcy is tough. I’m glad to see Van’s is making progress.

Racing an eclipse

By Ben Sclair · April 20, 2024 ·

Staying the path of an eclipse for 74 minutes without the benefit of a magenta line.

Good news from California

By Ben Sclair · April 18, 2024 ·

Oceano County Airport lives to fly another day.

Someone should do something

By Ben Sclair · April 14, 2024 ·

For Jim, Scott, and the eight others who stepped up when they heard “someone should do something,” good on ya.

More pilots in 2023

By Ben Sclair · April 3, 2024 ·

13,000+ more student pilot certificates were issued in 2023 compared to 2022. That’s a 24% increase.

Noise

By Ben Sclair · March 28, 2024 ·

“Is it that hard to build a new airport or is it just hard to make a business case for it? The US built airports very rapidly for many decades because it needed them, does it need many new ones now?”

Explain it to me like I’m 10

By Ben Sclair · March 24, 2024 ·

This is a great way to explain the force of gravity. Most of us, kids included, can relate to being weighed. Personally, I wish I had a bit less force on the scale.

It wasn’t there first

By Ben Sclair · March 13, 2024 ·

Arrowhead Airpark offers a great example why we should stop responding to airport complaints with: “But the airport was there first.” Because in this case, it wasn’t there first.

Always be learning

By Ben Sclair · February 26, 2024 ·

While Pdh makes sense now that I’ve seen Cdh, I don’t see a need for EFATO. In the age of GPS generated altitude GAGL is useful, if a bit of a stretch.

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