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Ben Sclair

So, how do we fix you?

By Ben Sclair · March 5, 2023 ·

That line, “So, how do we fix you?” came from long-time General Aviation News subscriber Tom Jensen. He was alluding to a line in a recent Touch & Go column: “While I am proud to be a certificated pilot, the entire year of 2022 passed without my operating any aircraft as pilot in command.” That’s what he wanted to fix. Getting me airborne.

If you find them, I don’t want them back

By Ben Sclair · February 19, 2023 ·

Today, I weigh about what I did when I started my senior year in high school. Better yet, I am down about 70 pounds from my unhealthy peak before Deb and I had our first kid. Thankfully.

An intentional column

By Ben Sclair · February 1, 2023 ·

Words matter: It wasn’t unintentionally deleted, it was mistakenly deleted.

Aviation activities featured at Waukesha JanBoree

By Ben Sclair · February 1, 2023 ·

More than 650 people attended a showing of Top Gun Maverick inside Atlantic Aviation’s hangar at Waukesha County Airport as part of JanBoree.

20 years of todays

By Ben Sclair · January 12, 2023 ·

The Recreational Aviation Foundation RAF logo

I believe the definition of “leave it better than you found it” should simply point to the Recreational Aviation Foundation.

Salem schools expand aviation program

By Ben Sclair · January 11, 2023 ·

The purchase of a building at McNary Field will serve as the home for the growing Career and Technical Education program.

Mind the learning line

By Ben Sclair · January 9, 2023 ·

You won’t be check ride ready after reading this book, but it may just jog your memory on a topic you’ve not thought of in many years or it may provide the exact jumping off point to go deep on something of interest.

Don’t forget we are in command

By Ben Sclair · December 21, 2022 ·

ASRS Report Human Factors

As a reminder, FAR Part 91.3 is titled “Responsibility and authority of the pilot in command.” Part (a) states, “The pilot in command of an aircraft is directly responsible for, and is the final authority, as to the operation of that aircraft.”

The Sky and I

By Ben Sclair · December 15, 2022 ·

Whether you are a many decades pilot or just cracking the FAR/AIM for the first time, this book has something for you.

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