BY BILL WALKER, For General Aviation News It’s not unusual for Bunny and Jeff Anderson to begin their Saturday mornings with a boat ride on the tidal creek a short distance from their runway home at Eagle Neck Airpark in coastal Georgia. The Andersons are a flying family but being near the water was one […]
The importance of the House GA Caucus
By DAVE HOOK, For General Aviation News Action. That one word differentiates aviators from so many of our earthbound brothers and sisters. We are used to taking action, resulting in the successful accomplishment of our flights. That same spirit of action should also apply to protecting our freedom to fly. That spirit is found not […]
Building a bigger tent
GUEST EDITORIAL By HAL SHEVERS, founder of Sporty’s Pilot Shop in Batavia, Ohio “I want to get a private license.” Over my 50-plus years of teaching pilots I have heard that statement countless times. After talking to the prospective pilots a short time, you realize what they really have on their minds is to be […]
The Wrong Stuff: Flying on the Edge of Disaster
BOOK REVIEW By J. DOUGLAS HINTON, For General Aviation News It’s not often you can pick up an autobiography or biography and get right into the action. You usually have to suffer through two or three tedious chapters telling where the person was born, raised, went to school, what sports they played, who their friends […]
A FlightPrep fan
LETTER TO THE EDITOR I’ve read with considerable interest on this and other sites about the FlightPrep patent enforcement efforts and some concerns that have been expressed by the flying community. I’m not quite sure I understand what all the fuss is about, but then, I come at the issue with a perspective that is […]
Why teaching the young to love flying is important
LETTER TO THE EDITOR When I was 8 years old, I loved to watch the Stearman crop duster airplanes spray our fields for insects. I would marvel at these crop duster pilots flying under telephone lines and pulling back up into the air with the roar of the big engine. Then I got to meet […]
Sky’s the limit for the new year
You’re on the edge of a brand new year. After months of gloom and doom about the recession and the inevitable doldrums that arise after the holidays, take advantage of the chance to shake things up for 2011, recommend two staff writers for the Denton (Texas) Record-Chronicle. Top of their list to help meet the […]
What will the new year bring for GA security?
GUEST EDITORIAL By DAVE HOOK Trying to foretell the future of general aviation security is a challenge as our community is at a crossroads. Over the coming months we will have to decide just how much regulated security we are willing to accept and how much voluntary security we are willing to uphold. I offer […]
A flying library
By MICHAEL COHEN, For General Aviation News I wish I could fly all the time, but weather and finances won’t let it happen. Happily, for those times that I have to be flying an armchair, there is a large library of books by aviation’s greatest, and these pilots write so well that reading them is […]