As if often the case in life, when a day’s work is done, an invitation to have a beer is extended. He told me, in that moment, he was an alcoholic and declined my invitation.
Our most popular stories of 2021
In case you missed them, here’s a lists of the most read stories on the General Aviation News website in 2021.
Out of print, but not for long
As of November 2021, the book “Luscombe’s Golden Age” is out of print. But author John Swick is working to change that.
We never know
I don’t believe it is possible to fully flight plan our entire life all the way to the end. We just don’t know what is coming around the next corner.
Consultant to review noise complaints at Montgomery County Airpark
In an attempt to provide context, Keith Miller, CEO of the county’s revenue authority said, “from Jan. 1, 2021, through early Dec. 7, there were 6,440 complaints. Of those, 86% came from ‘four unique households.’ In total, 42 households had submitted complaints in that period.”
The future is behind us
The idea of replacing more than 100 aging traditional control towers with more than 100 new traditional control towers is frustrating to me.
Tough days ahead for KRHV
This three-page newsletter feels like an outline for an airport-based horror movie.
We’re going to put it in the trees
It is the stuff of nightmares for pilots: Your engine starts running rough over mountainous terrain. That nightmare became reality for two Washington pilots, who survived to tell their story in Lightspeed Aviation’s No Tie Down video series.
Cut off
Hopefully the situation will be short-lived. But rebuilding roads, bridges, and rail infrastructure takes time.