Nowadays, when there is considerable cost involved just getting to the airport, folks often ask me how we survive financially as a flying family. I have to be creative to keep those flying dollars liberated, and as the price of automotive and aviation fuels rise — affecting our household budget across the board — I […]
Opinion
STILL NO. 1
In Letters to the Editor of your Oct. 19 issue, Lou Drendal commented on Meg Godlewski’s article about the 35-ship formation at Oshkosh in your Aug. 24 issue (“The largest OSH formation?”). He suggested that I was “not even close to correct” when I said it “was the largest formation ever at Oshkosh.” He cited […]
MORE ON OSH FORMATIONS
Regarding the highest number of airplanes flown into Oshkosh, read “The Cessna 120/140 Story Book” by Dorchen Forman for a number never to be duplicated by one kind of civilian plane: 163 Cessna 120s, 140s and 140As flew in a trail into Oshkosh. All one kind of plane, within 15 horsepower of each other — […]
IF SEEING IS NOT ENOUGH
IF SEEING IS NOT ENOUGH Pilots will tell me that I cannot believe my own eyes, and that planes overhead are much higher than they appear from the ground. I have found that difficult to swallow, so I have fallen back on what I know to be true – trigonometry. If I observe a plane […]
Don’t like an FAA regulation? Now is the time to speak up
WASHINGTON, D.C. — If there is something about FAA regulations that you don’t like, now is the time to make your opinions heard. The FAA is asking for comments from the public “”to identify those regulations currently in effect that we should amend, remove or simplify.”” This action is the third round of regulatory review […]
A TOTAL LACK OF SECURITY
I sure enjoyed your article on my home airport, Falcon Field (“What’s in your hangar? Officials at Arizona airport crack down on inappropriate uses,” Oct. 19 issue). The hangar leasing situation there has been a mess for many years, due to a network of “good ol’ boys” who repeatedly skirted the rules. Corinne has been fighting […]
NOT JUST IN ARIZONA
Re: What’s in your hangar? I read your article in GANews and the same thing happened in Vernal, Utah, this summer. The whole thing resulted in a giant conflict with pilots, hangar owners and renters. The airport manager wanted to search hangars, which he could because the land is owned by the county. However, at […]
PROPOSED RULE IS IMPRACTICAL
[Editor’s Note: This letter was sent to Sen. Max Baucus (D-Montana), initially.] I am writing in reference to the proposed new U.S. Customs and Border Protection rules per NPRM USCBP-2007-0064. These rules would be very burdensome, costly and impractical. It is obvious the author(s) have never flown a small airplane out of or back into […]
MUSTANGS & LEGENDS
The article about the Mustangs and Legends was very good and enjoyable to read (“Gathering of Mustangs and Legends, Where World War II airplanes and pilots met again,” Oct. 19 issue). I attended the air show and it was probably the best all-around air show I have visited in a long time. It was well […]