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Welcome to the pilots lounge at our virtual airport, a place where anyone who likes flying is welcome. It is not a big place, only two runways, one paved, one grass. It has a couple non-precision instrument approaches, some gliders on the grass, ski planes in the winter, a fair sized office and pilot’s lounge […]

Photos by Richard Allnutt Click on these images for larger, high-resolution photos.   Brian Sanders’ Sea Fury “Argonaut”. Bruce Lockwood’s “Dago Red,” winner of the Gold Trophy race. This photo was taken at the start of Saturday’s heat race, just before Voodoo lost its elevator trim tab. Photos by Kevin Grantham Click on these images […]

Much has been written about the fact that judgement is very difficult,if not impossible, to teach. We have all seen examples of flightstudents exercising poor judgement, and even on fairly rare occasionsflight instructors demonstrating faulty judgement, but when botha student and an instructor exercise poor judgement in a singleepisode it is bound to lead to […]

A tale of misconduct by top FAA lawyers How did Bainbridge get in trouble? The O’Brien report The “smoking gun” paragraph Who are these FAA lawyers? That’s the way the system works? How could this happen? Who will protect us from the FAA lawyers? September 14, 1998 Ms. Jane F. Garvey, AdministratorFederal Aviation Administration800 Independence […]

At a party I attended awhile back, a lady was extolling the virtues of her latest macro-biotic diet, and how she wouldn’t drink coffee because it’s bad, wouldn’t touch salt, just on and on about her rather complex feeding routine. All the while smoking one cigarette after another! What is wrong with this picture? So […]

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Fun, fun and more fun! That’s what you willexperience when you visit Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, the number oneresort vacation destination in the world! Disney World has it all, from impeccablymanicured resorts, exquisite dining facilities and world-class shopping, to the latestrecreational activities, imaginative theme parks and exciting nightclubs.

I don’t know for sure if this is intended to be a funny story or a plea for advice, butafter two days of internalizing it, I do know for sure that I must put this down on paper. I am one of three family members that are as a group the owners of two FBO’s […]

Many of us who hold airman certificates of one kind or anotherspend a lifetime without ever having contact with the Flight StandardsBranch of the FAA (knock on wood), but many others are not sofortunate. If you have never had the misfortune to experiencean enforcement action, listen up, because it can happen at anytime, and it […]

If you’ve been reading any of this stuff, you might have figured out by now that the headlines are written to grab some attention, in the hopes you’ll read on. These “leaders” or “teasers” are written by someone else, I’m too lazy. They may or may not resemble the actual gist of the article, if […]