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Air Force One AVwbe wrote (NewsWire, Dec. 1): The flight crew had prepared for what they believed was a milk run to Washington for maintenance. I don’t really know for sure but I’d strongly suspect the flight crew was aware of things; however, if you meant the press crew, it might well be. Very hard […]

Tour Flight Restrictions I’m all for safety, but it is apparent that we really aren’t any safer now than in 2001 (NewsWire, Nov. 17). There will always be one looney in the “bin,” but if anyone knew about GA pilots, they would know that most of us are hard-core, true-blue Americans who would do anything […]

Aircraft Airworthiness We have the computer databases and knowledge to have all of the current GA aircraft repairs entered (Newswire, Nov. 17).Evey year we are spending thousands for the annual and having a mechanic go through the logs looking to make sure all the AD’s are up to date etc, etc.Every N-number should be entered […]

ADIZ Incursions Unless you fly regularly near Washington, D.C., you might be unaware — as I was recently — that the ADIZ exists, and that probably accounts for many of the 600+ incursions since it was started (NewsWire, Nov. 13). Also the ADIZ is not tiered like the Class B airspace around DCA, which further […]

ATC Privatization After the “performance” of the FAA controllers handling traffic for the AOPA Convention in Philadelphia last week, maybe we do need a change to privatization. Aircraft circling over ill-defined points, at an altitude and heading of their individual choice, along with no indication of the expected holding time was a recipe for disaster. […]

Poor GA Piston Sales The numbers showing low deliveries of piston aircraft (NewsWire, Oct. 27)do not tell the whole story. Cessna planned the size of their production run long before the economy began to recover, so the entire production line was sold out by May of this year. Cessna’s deliveries were low because Cessna refused […]

Unusual Attitudes Training I did spins during primary training, and now fly commercial aerobatics in light aircraft and IFR in commercial heavy aircraft. I feel that unusual attitude training is important for all pilots, but aerobatics in light planes has limited unusual attitude value for pilots of heavier aircraft.Chas Kelly Concorde Viability Most Americans seem […]

Huricane Flight Great information about flying the Hurricane (Pelican’s Perch, Sept. 14 and Oct. 12). I am an old Marine F4U driver — WWII & Korea — we thought we had some problems with that plane, but … !I am the historian for the original VMF 312, formed June 1, 1943. A young fellow made […]

New York Air Show In spite of the decline of aviation and airports nationwide, it’ s still nice to know one town and county in the New York area supports aviation. On Sept. 20 & 21, the former Grumman Naval Weapons Industrial Facility — now known as Calverton Industrial Park — hosted the New York […]

New York City TFR Talk about one hand not knowing what the other is doing — the FAA wins the award this week. There is a NOTAM TFR that basically follows the outline of the New York Class B. Except, TRACON is telling us the TFR has a radius of 40 nm, not 20 nm […]