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Ben Sclair

A decent start

By Ben Sclair · January 31, 2024 ·

It would be great to report no aircraft accidents, ever. But the only absolute way to accomplish that is to never leave the ground.

Owning > Zoning

By Ben Sclair · January 18, 2024 ·

Flight instructors teach aspiring pilots to “stay ahead of the airplane.” Do we do that when it comes to airports? Do we stay ahead of the airport or are we playing catch-up?

Flat light takes out Ingenuity

By Ben Sclair · January 9, 2024 ·

“When running an accident investigation from 100 million miles away, you don’t have any black boxes or eyewitnesses,” said Ingenuity’s first pilot. Håvard Grip of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). “While multiple scenarios are viable with the available data, we have one we believe is most likely: Lack of surface texture gave the navigation system too little information to work with.”

Pay attention

By Ben Sclair · December 27, 2023 ·

I can’t imagine why the city would want to annex the land if development wasn’t the ultimate plan.

Van’s 4-seat RV-10 is an S-LSA — in Brazil

By Ben Sclair · November 29, 2023 ·

It is amazing what can happen when there is a desire to make something happen.

A cure for an unnecessary headache

By Ben Sclair · November 22, 2023 ·

Install two cameras and call me in the morning.

I hope they’re ready

By Ben Sclair · November 20, 2023 ·

It isn’t often that a new airport opens.

A nice send off

By Ben Sclair · November 15, 2023 ·

I’m sad for this former subscriber, but grateful he took the time to email.

Touch and go bans coming to an airport near you?

By Ben Sclair · November 5, 2023 ·

While it would’ve been nice for local governments to preserve space around airports decades ago to prevent such issues, they didn’t, so we have to deal with reality as it is, not as we wish it to be.

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