AOPA‘s Aviation Summit is the end of our fly-in/event season. Phew. I’m glad we’ve wrapped for the year. Being last in our schedule, however, certainly doesn’t make Summit least. Not in my opinion anyway. This year a Flight Training Summit kicked things off the day before opening day. A lot of data — enough to […]
Baron owner wins Wipaire floats
Congratulations are in order. Dan T. of Escondido, Calif. won a set of Wipline 2100 Floats from Wipaire. The winning entry was pulled by FlightPrep‘s Audrie Crane (see below) on November 13 at the AOPA Aviation Summit. The float giveaway is valued at $28,000-$31,000 “depending on installation equipment,” noted Wipaire’s Charlie Wiplinger. Since the winner […]
CALPILOTS annual meeting at AOPA’s Summit
The California Pilots Association will hold its Annual Meeting during AOPA‘s Summit in Long Beach from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday November 13th in Hyatt Regency Long Beach Hotel room Seaview A. On the agenda: Airport Advocates of the year; Update on power plants and airports; AOPA VP for Region Affair Greg Pecararo; Friends of […]
Nov/Dec newsletter from CALPILOTS available
The November/December 2010 newsletter from the California Pilots Association is available for download from their website at CALPILOTS.org.
Copperstate a grassroots fly-in
It is easy to get caught up in the business side of flying. The future of fuel, security directives, regulations, Congress, and the economy tend to stress a great many pilots out. An antidote to that stress is an old-fashioned fly-in. The 37th annual Copperstate Fly-In, held Oct. 21-23 at Casa Grande Municipal Airport (CGZ), […]
Sky Manor wins top N.J. aviation award
Sky Manor Airport in Pittstown, New Jersey was recently awarded the 2010 Gill Robb Wilson Award for outstanding contribution to New Jersey Aviation. The award was given by the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Coalition in recognition of saving the airport. New Jersey airports have been closing at an alarming rate in recent years, reducing the network of […]
U-Fuel names Misegades sales rep
EAU CLAIRE, Wisc — U-Fuel, an aviation fuel systems provider, has named Kent Misegades its Aviation Sales Representative. U-Fuel introduced self-service fuel stations to aviation in the 1980s. Misegades has worked as an aerospace engineer for three decades and is an award-winning aviation speaker and writer. He is an authority on aviation fuels and co-author […]
Why you should care about TTF
Public comments are interesting…or can be. Following are but three comments made at the Sept. 22 hearing of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on an FAA proposal to prohibit any new residential through the fence (TTF) agreements at publicly-funded airports that are part of the National System of Airports and therefore eligible for […]
Planehook takes issue with FAA’s TTF proposal
Planehook Aviation Services takes issue with the FAA’s proposal to prohibit residential through-the-fence operations at publicly funded airports. In a white paper [download here] released Oct. 5, David Hook, Planehook’s president, outlines the impact to security the proposal would create. From the white paper: “This FAA policy proposal contradicts previously established national policy and bears […]