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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 […]
Timeafter time, you put the landing gear switch in the “down” position, wait a fewseconds, and are rewarded with those three reassuring green down-and-locked indicatorlights. Then it happens…no green light! You stare at the lights in a few moments ofdisbelief and denial. You feel a knot growing in your stomach. And then you realize youhave […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It is 1300 on Wednesday, July 29, and Wittman Fieldis officially closed to Oshkosh-bound pilots who had intendedon camping here. The inn is full, and the “No Vacancy”sign has been hung out-overnighting aircraft are being divertedto Appleton and Fon du Lac. EAA President Tom Poberezny neverlikes to turn weary travelers away, but is happy at […]
AVweb spoke with EAA president Tom Poberezny a week before AirVentureOshkosh 1998: AVweb: So, AirVenture Oshkosh is nigh upon us. Poberezny: Yes, actually we feel that is has started already withthe people already arriving AVweb: How crowded is it this early out? Poberezny: Usually the 4th of July is kind of the kick off. Earlyarrivals […]
Jon Jordan has overseen major changes in medical certification which went into effectin September, 1996. He also appointed the first new Director of the Civil Aviation MedicalInstitute (CAMI) in over two decades, Dr. Warren Silberman. I had the opportunity tointerview Dr. Jordan at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. Dr. Jordan, EAA’s Aeromedical Council holds a forum at […]
Jack Mark remembers the hot summer days when he was a kid in theworking class neighborhoods on the south side of Milwaukee. The depression of the 30’s was in full swing; hand-me-down shoes were a way of life, flying was something limited to the super-wealthy, and an afternoon at a city park was considered a […]
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