By MICHAEL COHEN, For General Aviation News “Where do you fly to all the time?” I am sometimes asked this question, because I put a fair number of hours on our club airplane, a Cessna 150. I live pretty much in the middle of the country and fly out of a small airport, Kyle Oakley […]
1-800-DON’T-FLY
Meanwhile, Lockheed Martin won the contract to privatize flight service and ensure its ultimate demise. They might as well send the jobs to India, because at least then the customer service component would not be so surly.
The Devil is in the details
The gal working the desk listened to my story and, after a call to the airport manager, arranged for me to be topped and then gave me a crisp $20 bill so I would have some money in my pocket.
Van’s of feather flock together
By JACK E. NEUBACHER, For General Aviation News The skies over the Rowan County Airport (RUQ) in Salisbury, N.C., dazzled during the weekend of Nov. 12-14th with an assault of Van’s RVs. More than 35 were attending a Formation Flight Clinic organized by Ron “Smokey” Schreck, with the help of other members of the famed […]
Birds fly, men drink
In 1948, the local park was transferred to the U.S. Parks Service and became a national park, where today it provides an inspirational legacy for more than 600,000 visitors each year.
The CASA
By JIM OLTERSDORF, For General Aviation News At 10,000 AGL and in cruise with a speed indicating about 190 kts (a bit of a tailwind), the vast expanse seemed never ending. I must have seen a million different lakes, pot holes, and raging waterways, not to mention the glaciers and magnificent mountains. Alaska. Nothing is […]
The Price Is Wrong
Allow me to pontificate. As a full-time, dedicated, hustling, busy aircraft broker, I have come to certain conclusions about aircraft valuation, which I am happy to share with you.
Arachnophobia
And those quacks at Oklahoma City? Turns out they do know what they hell they’re talking about.
Up against the wall! And by the way, that’s a nice picture of you!
What is actually mind-boggling is that such a lame-brain idea ever got written into law. It serves no real purpose and does not secure any aspect of aviation – or national – security.