NOT MY KIND OF NEIGHBOR I am a pilot, aircraft owner, aviation enthusiast and member of EAA, but from what I’ve read about this issue (New Jacksonville law targets homebuilder in Florida city, Sept. 8 issue), I don’t think I would want Mr. Kraut living next door to me, either. John Bradberry Sulphur Springs, Texas
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Good Advice
GOOD ADVICE I would like to commend your publication and give a special thanks to Paul McBride, who gave me good technical advice regarding the storage of a Lycoming engine in my Piper. JOE CASEY Prior Lake, Minn.
Thanks to Regal Air
THANKS TO REGAL AIR Many, many thanks to Regal Air for once again welcoming those of us who had to evacuate our planes from Harvey Airfield to Paine. We were greeted at the tarmac and directed to tie-downs. Some of us were even given a ride back to Harvey in one of Regal’s vans. This […]
Two engines are better than one
TWO ENGINES ARE BETTER THAN ONE With regard to Richard Greene’s comment about why he decided to purchase the single engine D-JET (Why I decided to buy a D-JET, Nov. 3 issue), I would like to point out that I have personally deflated the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) specs for turbine engines over the […]
FAA Efficiency?
FAA EFFICIENCY? To Charles Spence: I’m sure your Capital Comments column (Fair is fair? FAA, airlines continue blitz for user fees, Nov. 17 issue) went to press before the story by AOPA came out in its internet newsletter on Nov. 24. You know the one where it was pointed out that the FAA had almost […]
Not all aviators are conservative
I was reading your editorial (Knee jerks: The selling of fear in America, Nov. 3 issue) with interest and approval until the part about populists and socialist media – then I sort of choked. It is true that most of our fellow aviators are wildly conservative, and love to hear generalizations about socialist media, but […]
Democratic control could bring change to user fee fight
WASHINGTON, D.C. — General aviation groups are cautiously optimistic about the changes in Congressional committee leaderships that will bring into power lawmakers who in the past have shown opposition to user fees. Democrats are expected to take a more negative view of changing how the FAA is funded, but reauthorization of the FAA is still […]
What he didn’t know
Reference the letter to the editor in your Oct. 20 issue written by Kim H. Wallis (Test pilots held to a higher standard?): Clearly Kim Wallis did not think through the Sport Jet crash scenario before he hit the send button on his computer. Without knowledge of prior traffic, pilots are routinely dependent upon air […]
We don’t need more red tape
The FAA doesn’t see patients on a day-to-day basis, so they should leave medical certification procedures up to the AMEs who practice their trade! In the process of medical recertification the FAA should only act as an appeal agency to make the final decision on whether airmen fly or not. As ironic as it seems, […]