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2013 Airshow Calendar Grimes Flying Circus ABS Air Safety Foundation How to Give A Pilot Report EAA Trimotor Comes to Fitchburg Captain Monica “Moose” Maruseac Fun-draising for Events EAA Trimotor Visits Long Island Simsbury Fly-In - Expected to be Biggest Ever Sentimental Journey photo Review 28th Annual Lock Haven Piper Cub Fly-in Sucker Punch Biennial Flight Review Mystery Airplane Contest Fun Stuff: Checkpoints Classified Ads Cartoons: Chicken Wings, Smiling Jack
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ANTIQUE ATTIC: GILLES AULIARD BIG SKY: K EN KULA SAL’S LAW: YOUR LEGAL EAGLE: SAL LAGONIA, ESQ AIR TO GROUND: ROSE MARIE K ERN BYDANJOHNSON.COM HOT AIR, WINGS AND FLYING THINGS: JIM ELLIS EVAN FLYS: EVAN ISENSTEIN-BRAND
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AIRSHOW CALENDAR ACCOMPLISHMENTS LEARN TO FLY - FLIGHT SCHOOLS CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS CHECKPOINTS
Features 09 FUN-DRAISING 13 FORD TRIMOTOR VISITS LONG ISLAND 24 SUCKER PUNCH FOR AVIATION LOVERS 25 MYSERY AIRPLANE CONTEST 29 BIENNIAL FLIGHT REVIEW
Airshows 07 READINGS WWII WEEKEND 20 SIMSBURY FLY-IN - EXPECTED TO BE BIGGEST EVER 22 SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY PHOTO REVIEW 23 28TH ANNUAL SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY PIPER FLY-IN
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Antique Attic
August 2013
by Gilles Auliard
Grimes “Flying Circus”: the Best Bang for Your Buck
King in the Fleet 7 to Museum’s Director Paul Dougherty in the GAAM Curtiss Jenny. For the few who have never witnessed such dual, the game is simple: throw a roll of toilet paper out of the airplane at altitude, and see how many times you can cut it before it reaches the ground.
Every year the Golden Age Air Museum of Bethel, Pennsylvania, organizes a series of events destined to bankroll its day-to-day operation and restoration/building projects. This only in theory, as the Pennsylvania weather has an uncanny ability to get in the way of the best laid plans. However, this year’s classic “Flying Circus”, first event of the season, scheduled for June 15, had full cooperation of the weather gods, with plenty of sunshine, mild temperatures and a little breeze not interfering with flying activities. Over years of hard work, the GAAM has been growing at a steady pace, refocusing on WWI aviation, with its Gnome rotary powered Fokker Dr.1 and its Sopwith Pup replicas, both built in the museum’s workshop. The current project is a SPAD XIII replica, its most ambitious project, which will be straining the resources of the Museum until completion. In order to finance the project, Paul Dougherty came up with a creative fund-raising campaign dubbed the “Sponsor a Wing Rib” program.
A word of caution: one cannot use the cheap kind of toilet paper, as it would self-destruct well ahead of the first cut. In order to accomplish the Delsey dive, one has to use the three-ply paper. At this game, Andrew King is a master, as he has been practicing during the Old Rhinebeck’s weekend shows since well before getting his drivers license. None-the-less, according to Roger Thiel, Grimes announcer and one time contest judge, Andrew won by cheating, using two rolls instead of one, and was disqualified, leaving Paul the winner by default! No matter what the result was, when was the last time you witnessed a Jenny doing a ribbon cut? Grimes is probably is the only place left in the US for such a rare sight. Another classic rarely seen since the 30's: the pants race. One more time, the premise is pretty simple, and geared towards the women in the audience. It starts with pilots in full flying gear -whatever that is- losing their pants prior to flight, flying a few racetracks and racing to get back into them.
The show opens with a classic “Delsey Dive” contest, which opposed volunteer pilot Andrew
The classic escape convict tableau with speakeasies, gangster molls and Chicago typewriters was the most fun one could since watching old Keystone cop reels at the Kino. It goes approximately like this, after his spectacular escape -an escape always has to be spectacular in the papers- from Penn State (I am not talking about the University here), the infamous Paul Dougherty commandeered the GAAM Breezy, ditching a keystone cop in flight in order to gain some altitude (I guess all those donuts came at a price). Being inexperienced in the operation of such a unique machine, he ended up destroying his own speakeasy by crash landing into it. Of course, coppers were not too far, and he went back to jail without even having the time to get back into his civvies. The twist was that his own
men turned him over to the cops. I guess he had been a bad boy for quite awhile.
For $100, each donor will be able to dedicate one of the 100 or so ribs in the airplane wings, becoming integral part of the airplane’s legacy, offering a flying time capsule. All the proceed will be used directly into the construction of the aircraft (the cost of the materials are estimated at $25,000, while the manpower is all volunteers). The events unfurling during the “Flying Circus” are strongly inspired by the antics taking place at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome during Cole Palen’s lifetime, when there were enough planes and pilots to make it worthwhile. Of course, Cole was inspired by the 1920 and 30's barnstormers and flying circuses that used to criscross the Heartland, doing pretty much everything their wild imagination could come up with for a buck.
If Paul won the race by getting back in his pants before everybody else, special mention goes to Zeke, who finished dead last, after one of the best displays of “crazy” flying seen since the retirement of Stan Segalla.
This June it involved Paul Dougherty flying the GAAM Taylor E-2, Michael Damiani flying the museum’s Aeronca C-3, Andrew King in the Pietenpol Air Camper and a totally drunk Zeke Gulliwater (a.k.a. Eric Lunger) flying his own Piper J-3, taking off with a cinder block attached to his tail.
We have all heard about the Powder Puff Derby, near and dear to Will Rogers. Before the term was coined, the first Women’s Air Derby took place during the 1929 National Air races and opposed the biggest names in this arena, including Pancho Barnes, Amelia Earhart, Gladis O’Donnell, Bobby Trout, Blanche Noyes, Phoebe Omlie and others, all charter members of the 99s. The 1929 race was revived for a few short minutes at the foot of the Blue Mountains, offering the public a glimpse of probably the ugliest women in the airshow circuit in the coolest of airplanes. I guess one cannot ask for more. . . However, the best part of this was that all the airplanes of the museum were taken out of the hangar for public inspection, and all the airworthy airframes took to the skies at one point or another for the pleasure of a public who was getting the deal of the century with the low admission fee. Why not consider a trip to Bethel, Pennsylvania, on the way to or from your favorite vacation spot?
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Winning in the States No matter where you live, you may have heard friends and family lament the rising cost of just about everything from groceries to gasoline. At the same time, we continue to see record-setting deficits, slow job growth, and higher taxes. Let’s face it, the past few years have been tough for most Americans. At the same time, state governments are scrambling to meet their own financial obligations. Federal dollars are drying up and the tax base is shrinking, sending states in search of new and creative ways to raise revenue. With that in mind, let me share a number that would be impressive in the best of times and is almost inconceivable today. The number is $0. That’s how much state taxes on GA have gone up in the past five years. In fact, in many states, GA taxes have gone down. It may sound like the result of incredible good luck. But there’s truth to the old saying that “you make your own luck.” Our good fortune is the result of hard work by some of GA’s most effective advocates—AOPA’s state legislative affairs experts and regional managers. With 50 state legislatures to monitor, our experts track more than 1,000 bills each year, and take direct action on several hundred of those. That action can include providing testimony,
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August 2013
The Big Sky
by Ken Kula
ABS Air Safety Foundation Maintenance Academy Lands at Parlin Field
The American Bonanza Society's Air Safety Foundation (ABS/ASF) recently held its' second of three 2013 Maintenance Academies at Newport New Hampshire's Parlin Field Airport. Hosted by local FBO Edmonds Aircraft Service (owner Louis Edmonds has extensive Bonanza maintenance experience), the Academy offered 20 mechanics an in-depth, hands-on immersion of specialized training on various Beechcraft airframes, although it concentrated on the classic Bonanza V-tail design. The ABS/ASF Maintenance Academy program was started 2 years ago. Attendance at each Academy is limited to only 20 mechanics for a very important reason. The small class size allows for two groups of ten students to be comfortably led by an ABS technical advisor. There were about 200 applicants for this class, and a similar number has already requested to attend the final 2013 Academy. Specialized training on Beechcraft Bonanza-type aircraft, taught by Beechcraft technical advisors, is highly valued. The ABS has a number of technical advisors on call Monday through Friday from 9AM to 5PM, who can answer maintenance-related
questions from mechanics in the field. Part of the rationale for this is to keep mechanics up to speed with a product that continues to age, and pass along their valuable experience. These same "on-call " technical advisors travel to the Maintenance Academies to instruct in person. They have broad experience in the care and repair of Beechcraft Bonanzas and Barons, and likely have "seen it all". They are a wealth of knowledge and are considered experts with the Bonanza lineage... which includes the long out of production Model 35 (V-tail), Model 33/Debonaire, and Model 55 Baron. In order to be included in the class of 20, a mechanic must be recommended by others in the field, have certain qualifications (usually an aviation maintenance technician with airframe and powerplant ratings), and might have to pass a telephone interview before being chosen. One mechanic travelled to Parlin Field from as far away as Texas for the experience. Course materials included an actual V-tailed Bonanza set on jacks. While half of the group learned detailed inspection and repair techniques in a classroom setting, the other half began a walk around of the jacked-up Bonanza, as if to proceed with an annual maintenance inspection. They switched roles in the afternoon. During this New Hampshire session, ABS technical advisor Bob Ripley was the Chief Instructor while ABS Tech Curtis Boulware assisted. There was some fascinating discussion between the mechanics and the ABS technical advisors about the various quirks of the Bonanza. A check of the upper wing bolts, reached through an inspection plate on top of the wing, can reveal the possibility of operations from an unimproved airfield... a possibility if the bolts are loose. I learned that the ruddervators... those metal control surfaces on the V-tail, are
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READING’S WWII WEEKEND: WHERE OLD IS NEW AGAIN an aircraft not normally seen upside-down at an airshow, Mike Kennedy’s BT13. The undeniable scene-stealer, however, was Commemorative Air Force’s B29 “FiFi”, who wrapped up each day’s flying with an entertaining aerial demo, slow gear-down fly-bys and low, fast, high-banked passes. The maneuvers made the B29 seem amazingly nimble for such a large plane, and the rumble of those four powerful engines caught and held the crowd’s attention. Although a World War II encampment is the last thing you’d expect to see in southeastern Pennsylvania, for one weekend a year an airport about an hour’s drive from Philadelphia boasts the largest reenactor gathering in the nation. Carl Spaatz Field in Reading, PA was commandeered by over 1800 reenactors from June 7th to the 9th at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s World War II Weekend, where the price of admission earned 20,000 spectators entry to a 1940’s theme park and airshow rolled into one. Spaatz Field, an Air National Guard base from 1947 to 1961, is now home to the Mid Atlantic Air Museum. For 23 years the museum has hosted their ode to the patriotic fervor of the home front and the drama of the battles of the European and Pacific Theatres, as well as honoring the aircraft that fought in them during WWII. Scenes straight out of all the old black and white wartime movies come to life in color as you move through throughout the encampment, from a French village in Normandy and field hospital on the European front to a rollicking music canteen and live radio show in the States. Here, images loom as large in reality as they do in memory. Brainchild of MAAM’s founding father and WWII vet Gene Strine, the weekend was conceived to bring that time in history alive and share it with future generations. “We were looking for an airshow that was unique, strictly a WWII event,” said MAAM President Russ Strine, “with every country that took place in that war represented on the grounds. We have a real sense of pride in what we’ve done.” Proud they should be, as one day is not enough to see and experience all that’s here. Ground battles are waged while aircraft roar overhead, models strut their stuff in a 1940’s fashion show, military vehicles parade by and live period music continues all day on two stages. Actors taking on the roles of General MacArthur, FDR and a young JFK as well as entertainers portraying
Frank Sinatra and Abbott and Costello mingle with the crowd. There’s also a large flea market with over 100 vendors selling everything from vintage clothing, jewelry, memorabilia and uniforms to aircraft and vehicle parts. The museum is quick to say that the event is not officially called an airshow, but for many visitors the highlight of the weekend is indeed the flying. A tropical storm passed through the area Friday on its way up the coast, and soaking rain and low ceilings grounded the aircraft already at the show and delayed the arrival of the bulk of the warbirds until the following day. However, Saturday dawned dry, and the rest of the weekend was mostly sunny and pleasant. The residual mud on the grounds only served to make the encampments and vehicles look more realistic. Around 50 warbirds were in attendance, and flew each day in a structured show often choreographed with ground battles by the reenactors. Along with MAAM’s large stable of aircraft, nearly every type of trainer or warplane was represented. Each day the show began with a crystal clear rendition of the National Anthem by songbird Theresa Eaman, followed by a speech from General MacArthur on the steps of Berlin Aircraft Historical Foundation’s C54 “The Spirit of Freedom”, and the aerial parade was on. Liaison aircraft were in the air early, followed by primary and advanced trainers with a progression to the heavies by the end of the day. Pleasing to see was a seven- ship formation of T6/ SNJs. During the recreated Battle of Iwo Jima, Marines raised a flag on Mt. Suribachi after a fiery ground fight, with cover being flown by a Corsair, Helldiver, Dauntless and TBM Avenger. Next came the transports, with nice photo passes from the C46 “Tinker Belle”. Bombers were represented by four B25s and the Yankee Air Museum’s gorgeous B17. Interspersed between acts were acro performances by only WWIII aircraft: a Jungmeister, Corsair, Spitfire, T6 and
MAAM’s large hangar was a hub for activity at the show. During the day, it was filled with 20 honored guests, predominately WWII vets who were there to talk with visitors, sign autographs and sell their books. Rides were available for purchase in nearly all of the aircraft, including – for those with deep pockets - the B29. MAAM’s long-time restoration project, the P61 Black Widow that was rescued off of a mountain in Indonesia, was on display in a tent near the hangar for a close-up look at the progress on this rare aircraft. By night, the hangar became a Big Band dance hall.
It was refreshing to see such a large number of young people involved in the reenactment, enthusiastic and polite. A few decorated veterans were shuttled around the field in jeeps, and whenever they stopped, youthful reenactors gathered to meet the vets and shake their hands. For the spectator, the weekend is a chance to revisit or discover history anew, for the reenactor, it’s a chance to actually live it. If you come to next year’s WWII weekend, wear comfortable shoes. The encampment and aircraft ramps encompass a lot of territory, and you will want to see it all. And don’t forget a camera – you will want to take your memories home with you and make your friends who didn’t go to the show jealous. In the heart of Pennsylvania, MAAM proves that the 40’s don’t fade away, they just get brighter. Story and Photos by Diane Wilkins
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SAL’S LAW: YOUR LEGAL EAGLE DK @ Email I have been seeing a great deal of headlines with reports of police or Customs Agents, searching private aircraft by force. I thought it would be a good idea if you would address the rights and procedures of a pilot or aircraft owner under the threat of search by law enforcement officials. Sal’s Law: DK, thanks for the suggestion. There have certainly been a number of these reports which are both disturbing and sometimes puzzling. A recent headline in a well-known aviation publication read; “Pilots Have No Rights” and was attributed to a spokesman for a federal law enforcement agency. Last I checked they haven’t repealed the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, and yes we still do have rights. First and foremost, if you are approached by someone saying they are law enforcement, be sure to ask for their identification and note names. Any legitimate law enforcement agency will know to exhibit proper credentials and must give you some sort of identification of the individual officer such as name or badge number. Under FAR 61.51, law enforcement may ask for your pilot certificate, medical certificate and other records that are required by that section of law, depending on the type of privileges you are exercising. As an example, commercial pilots must give more information than private pilots, and ATP more than Commercial. That would include a photo ID (typically a driver’s license) and your pilot’s certificate. You do not have to have your log book with you unless you are a student pilot, but may need to present the log book in a reasonable amount of time thereafter. That section does not grant authority to anyone to search your aircraft without a warrant or one of the exceptions to the warrant rule. Those ex-
ceptions are too complex to discuss here, however the most often used exception is the consent search. If you consent to the search, all bets are off and the agency may conduct a search at will. While you should have nothing to hide in the aircraft, the bigger issue is whether the search has the potential to cause any damage to the aircraft. AOPA has suggested and I agree, make sure you specifically and politely state that you are not consenting to a search and that any removal of any part of the aircraft may render it un-airworthy. Also, record any activity as best you can with a cell camera or video. If possible, have airport officials witness the activity. The Fourth Amendment was put in place to protect us from unreasonable search and seizure. Warrants must be issued by a judge and based on probable cause. Absent a warrant, law enforcement is restricted to very specific exceptions to the warrant rule One agent recently commented that all aircraft coming into a particular airport were suspicious because the airport was located close to the Mexican border. Obviously, that alone would not render you amenable to search and is an indication of how easily the law can be misconstrued. Remember to be cooperative and polite, but protect your rights and be sure to let your aviation advocates know what occurred. MG @ GFL: I just found out that my mechanic failed to properly post an entry in my aircraft log book, and now the FAA is sending me a notice of certificate action. I had always left things to this mechanic and have used him for years, but I expected him to be responsible for these things. What recourse do I have?
Sal’s Law: The burden of assuring that maintenance entries are appropriately made in a maintenance log is covered in FAR 91.405(b). In short that section essentially says that the owner or operator shall ensure that maintenance personnel make appropriate entries in the aircraft maintenance records. That means if you own, rent or just borrow, the completeness of the maintenance records are your responsibility. For the most part, most of us just give our log books to the mechanic and say, “fix it”. But it is incumbent upon each of us to check those logs, make sure the proper inspections have been completed and the appropriate record made and signed off. Finally, the aircraft must be returned to service in writing in the log. In a recent case, we had a pilot who was involved in a minor incident. The FAA inspector took remedial action with regard to this incident, but then took it upon himself to check the maintenance records of the aircraft, even though they had nothing to do with the original response. The result was that he found an old AD that was not complied with and brought a new certificate action. It makes you want to go through your logs, page by page and check, doesn’t it? You can do that by going to the FAA web site, put in the make and model of your aircraft, and check that each service bulletin has the appropriate sign off from the mechanic. Blue Skies all! Sal Lagonia Esq., is an Aviation Attorney, Professor of Aviation Law and expert safety consultant who is a frequent speaker on aviation safety issues. Questions and speaking requests may be sent to Sal@LagoniaLaw.com or to his main office at 914-245-7500.
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FUN-draising Events! A Step by Step Guide for Small to Medium Non-Profit Organizations One of the basic conditions of being human is the desire to make our world a better place. Most people begin by improving their personal environment. They become educated, get a job, and create a home or a lifestyle that suits them. There are also thousands of people who look beyond their personal comforts. At some point in their lives they see something that just does not sit right with them, and they feel strongly enough that they want to do something about it. So they join other like-minded individuals and search for ways to change the situation. Thus are non-profits born. So, you have formed a group of giving, caring, and enthusiastic individuals and are ready to change the world. Or are you? Just about everything you do these days costs money. You may want people to understand the need for better animal shelters, or you feel they need to accept African Dance as both a method for getting in shape and understanding world culture. You may feel that the coal burning power plants in your state should be replaced with wind and solar energy, or that kids really need to be taught to defend themselves. Whatever your group wants to accomplish, it will require thought, time, and money. Now, unless you've managed to recruit a benevolent millionaire into your membership, the most challenging portion of this equation will be the money. There are thousands of living room non-profits across the nation doing wonderful things for their communities. Some of the ways they get funds include collecting membership dues, yard sales, and selling candy. Some of them get sponsorships from local businesses and/or request grants. Almost all of them dream of moving their cause out of the living room and into the large light of public awareness. Unfortunately, most small organizations find that they are calling on their own members for financial support to the point that the members have nothing left to give. Meetings can become nothing more than singing the same song over and over to the same group of people. So, they need an instrument through which they can make money. Ideally it should also focus attention on the goals of the organization. A very powerful tool is a fundraising event. This can provide many things: 1. A focus for sponsorships and grants 2. A method to raise money though community participation 3. A way to highlight the concerns of the organization in the community 4. It rallies excitement among the members and volunteers 5. It provides a vehicle to increase membership. Unless you organization's purpose is so off center that no one outside your group wants to touch it with a ten foot pole, you should be able to find an audience for your message. So how do you go about deciding on what kind of fundraising event to use? How do you organize it? What needs to be done to put it together? There are hundreds of events that can and do take place. For maximum effectiveness, your event should be tailored to your cause. So what kind of fundraising event would be appropriate for your organization? There are myriads of possibilities. Some, like New Mexico Solar Energy Association, are natural outshoots of what and who they are. Some fundraisers demand a quiet, elegant approach, where others are very down to earth. The best fund raising is also FUN-Raising. We are all volunteers, and we have something to give the world. Why not enjoy ourselves in the process? In FUNdraising Events we will discuss some of the many fundraising events there are, and give examples, focusing primarily on the needs of the small to medium sized organization. Then we will go over the steps involved in turning a great idea into a reality! See Rose’s website www.rosemariekern.com/fundraising.html or buy a book or Kindle version from Amazon.com.
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“Air To Ground” by Rose Marie Kern Recently I overheard a pilot give a co-worker a PIREP what can only be labeled as the “pilot report from hell”. Aviation needs good pilot reports (PIREP)– they are frequently the only way we can verify forecasts and give other pilots the information they really need about conditions aloft. But when a pilot starts rambling on and on with cute, folksy conversation and often extensive descriptions and phrasing about what he sees– we have a real problem coding the information into the computer. Here’s an example: Radio, this is N123 with a pilot report….I’m a turbo two ten RG161 over Whoachi Lake, VFR and we’re gettin’ bumped around quite a bit. We can see a cloud deck way up north and looks like there might be some rain up that way with some flashes..and back when we took off out of Podunk it was hazy and clouds were about nine thousand, right now we’ve got some clouds above us, but it’s clear at our altitude but real cold! If someone gives you a pilot report like that – how in the heck do you put it into the computer in a format that others can understand? A PIREP like that takes between 10 and 15 minutes of radio time. We would have to ask the pilot such things as What altitude? Where is he in reference to airports or navaids? Are the clouds scattered, broken or overcast? Then we have to figure out how many pilot reports to encode since he talks about both current and past portions of the flight. In the meantime, since he called Radio instead of Flight Watch, the guy working Radio may have a couple pilots on other frequencies trying to activate or cancel flight plans and a Lifeguard needing an IFR clearance from a small remote airport. Remember, each radio specialist is listening to 50 or more frequencies. Please use Flight Watch. In this case we would recommend that the pilot should have given a pilot report for haze tops and cloud bases shortly after take-off. Then called Flight Watch enroute with the turbulence information Here is an example of a useful Pilot Report: Flight Watch, N123 with a Pilot Report. (Pause while the guy on radio has a chance to open the PIREP form) N123, Albuquerque Flight Watch, Go ahead. N123 is a C172 on the Amarillo 290 degree radial at 40 miles at niner thousand five hundred. We have light chop, temperature is minus 2, scattered clouds above around 25,000. We can see lower clouds and lightening north. This is easy to input and another pilot getting briefed can look at the report as it is encoded below and know exactly what this pilot wanted others to know. AMA UA TM/2134 OV/AMA290040 TP/C172 FL/095 SK/SCT250 TB/LGT CHOP TA/M02 RM/LOWER CLOUDS AND LTG N Sometimes a pilot will call and say he wants to file a pilot report. He gives his location and type aircraft as requested and then says “It was a beautiful flight”. This does not really tell us anything. If we assume that he means skies clear and negative turbulence, we are assuming this guy is not a thrill taker. Heck, for all we know he’s an acrobatic pilot who thinks “Beautiful flight” means he got the guy in the right seat to puke. Some pilots feel compelled to lump a whole flight’s worth of complicated data into one pilot report at the end of the flight. If a Bonanza landing Bangor took off from Albany two hours ago – his climbout experience is no longer pertinent. Pilot reports are kept for only one hour in order to have the most useful and accurate information. We would have loved to have that data – two hours ago!
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How to Give a Pilot Report That is Truly Appreciated If the weather is bad, then giving multiple pilot reports along the route is really helpful. When possible, give one within half an hour of take-off, and perhaps another enroute. Then give us one when you land and close your flight plan about the conditions during descent. Please do not change the data halfway through the report, know what you intend to say before you call. Flight service specialists are required to read the report back to you and ask if it is accurate and complete. If you suddenly decide that the temperature is a degree different, or the clouds really look more scattered than broken, they have to start all over again. Use the standard phraseology – this way everyone knows how to interpret the information. The basic information needed for a pilot report begins with the aircraft type, location, and altitude. After that you can include one or more of the following: The optional fields are: Sky Conditions – Cloud bases and tops or sky clear. Clouds are few, scattered, broken or overcast. Turbulence – Negative, Light, Moderate, Severe or Extreme (NOT Smooth, “a little bit” or “I was picking my teeth off the ceiling”) This can include the words Chop, Intermittent, Continuous, or Occasional. Air Temperature – preferably in Celsius. This field is mandatory when giving an icing report. Wind Vector – Direction and Speed. You can say “southwest at 10 knots” and we will encode it as 24010kt. Please do not say “On the nose at 10 knots”, we can’t see what direction your nose is pointed. Icing – Trace, Light, Moderate or Severe – along with Rime, Clear, or Mixed. You can give a range of altitudes if you climbed through the icing. Frequently a pilot will say they incurred “some” icing, or “a bunch”. Always remember that an icing report must include temperature. Weather – This broad category includes inflight visibility, and limitations to visibility such as dust storms or haze, and includes all forms of precipitation. Always give visibilities in whole numbers. Remarks – Whatever doesn’t fit anywhere else. Includes reports of Thunderstorms at a distance, comments such as During Descent or “Tossed Dog into back seat”. There are only 77 characters allowed in this field – so please keep it to the point. In general, a flight service specialist will listen to what is said, then try to encode it properly. She or he may read back what they’ve encoded to verify your meaning. When you give a range of information, they are required to submit whatever is the worst value. If a pilot says that the bases of the overcast are 4 to 5 thousand, Radio will encode 4 thousand. If you say the temperature is between minus 2 and minus 3, they will encode minus 3. If you want to give extensive data, the specialist may be forced to split it into two pilot reports. Please be patient as he or she will need to take the time to get it all into the pilot report mask, then read it back to you for verification. If you want some more information on PIREP encoding, check out section 7-1-20 of the Airmen’s Information Manual. Pilot Reports are our best way of communicating timely and useful weather data to other pilots, and you can help by giving us the data in a way that is easy to understand. Remember, Flight Watch was designed exclusively to give and take weather information on active flights, so call 122.0 for pilot reports! Rose Marie Kern has been working in Air Traffic for over 30 years. If you’d like to ask her a question send an email to author@rosemariekern. com.
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Sophisticated LSA or “Mere Ultralight?” I recently flew with a friend who has some interest in learning to fly. After we got out of a Flight Design CTLSi equipped with dual Dynon 10-inch SkyView screens flanking a Garmin 796 — in all, an awesome amount of beautifully presented information — my friend sighed and made a statement that he could probably never do what I'd just done. We'd gone aloft and I pointed out to him the marvels of synthetic vision, ADS-B traffic and weather, direct-to navigation that would take us straight home and so much more. No wonder he felt completely overwhelmed. I didn't see it as overwhelming, of course. I delighted in all that easily accessed info and loved showing my friend just a few of the features available. However, on later reflection, I remembered the serious study that even an experienced pilot like myself had put into learning those magnificent digital instruments. Would my friend have been better served by experiencing aviation and the magical view from aloft had we flown, for example, an unassuming Quicksilver 2S? Would flying a "mere ultralight" have made flying seem more achievable and accessible? My friend has flown with an instructor in a hang glider so he would not be put off by the huge openness of the Quicksilver. He certainly would not have been intimidated by highly sophisticated instrumentation. The landscape would have drifted underneath at what I call "human speed," a more leisurely pace that anyone can absorb. Cruising at 50 mph covers ground in a way that lets you take in the majesty of your surroundings in this lovely country of ours. I think it much more likely he would have thought, "Hey, I can do this!" He could also afford it much more comfortably than a $150,000 LSA that has every bell and whistle installed. A new Quicksilver can be created for $30,000. Recently, some communication brought another interesting perspective. The following words were written by a west coast friend, Jon Thornburgh ... a former military flight jock and Delta Air Lines pilot who has every rating in the books plus the credential to teach in pretty much anything that flies. Jon writes concisely and precisely, I think, and I believe you should read his view, remembering that he's flown the "big iron." Jon operates a Quicksilver GT500 "ultralight" and provides primary flight instruction in it. Jon wrote, "Even with my aviation experience, I learned a lot about flying when I got into ultralight flying. • I learned that an airplane will fly even if you don't have a single instrument on it. Wow! You can even fly without an airspeed indicator and altimeter. That would be heresy for a Cessna pilot to even consider. • I learned you can land on a farmer's field that doesn't have a two thousand foot paved strip complete with runway markings, windsock, and air traffic controller giving instructions. • I learned that you can bring your own tools when you fly and do some maintenance that will get you back home. • I learned that you can fly within FAA rules that contain only two pages (FAR 103) and not the 150 pages that a private pilot has to learn. Amazing enough, you can even fly safely without taking an FAA 'Knowledge Test.' • I learned that someone can learn to fly without an FAA flight test, without a specific number of flight training hours, without training 'under the hood' for instrument flying, and without flying at night. • I learned that you can land within 25 feet of a designated spot when the engine is at idle (for practice) or when the engine quits for real. I learned that you can do a 180-degree turn and land downwind back on the runway should the engine quit at 400 feet after takeoff. • I learned that an ultralight pilot can teach another person how to fly without a commercial-instrument-CFI rating. • Most importantly of all, I re-learned that flying is fun and not a task, with no firm requirement to fly + or - 10 knots, + or - 5 degrees, and + or - 100 feet throughout your flight, like you have to do on an FAA flight test. "So," Jon concluded, "ultralighting is not the bottom of aviation. In my opinion, it's the top and the best." Thanks, Jon! I've got to get my friend John up in an "ultralight" real soon. I'm betting the smile he had after the CTLSi flight can broaden even further. WHAT’S AVAILABLE on ByDanJohnson.com? Most content is offered for free. NEWS — Latest news, going back to 2005 VIDEOS — Watch 300 free aircraft videos AIRCRAFT REVIEWS — Hundreds of pilot reports SLSA LIST — Links to all Special Light-Sport Aircraft LSA MARKET — Industry news •• Market Share charts PLANE FINDER 2.0 — Find your perfect airplane RESOURCES — Flight Instruction, Rental, & Maintenance SEARCH... our database of Aircraft, Companies, News, Videos MEMBERSHIP — Full website access for $29 a year. Become a Member to get special features: SpecCheck, Pros & Cons and PlaneView. THANKS so much for visiting!
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Hot Air, Wings and Flying Things by Jim Ellis EAA Ford Tri-Motor Visits Fitchburg
photo by Larry A.
photo by Larry A.
photo by Larry A.
Fitchburg Pilots Association President Matt Scales, and about a dozen other hardworking FPA/EAA Chapter 1454 members (with the assistance of Lawrence EAA Chapter 106) worked hard to arrange for a very successful visit of one of the EAA Ford Tri-Motors to Fitchburg, Massachusetts on June 24-26. 24 flights with paid rides were made in the two and one-half days, which EAA HQ was said to have described as an “awesome” response for midweek. The Tri-Motor EAA crew, Sherry Finkler (Ticket Sales), Bill Thacker(“Just” Co-Pilot), and Rand Siegfried(Pilot) all had positive things to say about the visit. The Tri-Motor was a 1929, one of 199 built between 1926 and 1933. It was painted in Army Signal Corps colors. It had three 9-cylinder Pratt &Whitney engines, and burned approximately 45 gph for a cruise airspeed of 90 mph. The seating was surprisingly comfortable. While the seats did not recline, they did have considerably more legroom between them than modern airliners. It was a great ride, but noisy! story and photos by Jim Ellis unless otherwise noted
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EAA Ford Tri-Motor Visits Long Island It has been far from a boring summer in the Long Island area. Even with the recent Jones Beach air show impacted with the lack of US military aircraft participation, the show went on with civilian performers, vintage WW II aircraft and CF-18 Canadian Hornet (As reported in the July issue of Atlantic Flyer). In the weeks that followed, there would be additional aircraft events that would make things interesting to aviation fans. One of these events was the visit of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Ford Tri-Motor 5-AT model to Brookhaven’s Calabro airport in Shirley, Long Island in mid-June of 2013 in time for Father’s Day. Imagine having the opportunity not only to look at an eighty year old aircraft up close but also be able to fly in it as well! Through the efforts of EAA and several members of the Calabro airport community that volunteered their time, the EAA Ford Tri-Motor was able to stop at the airport from June 14th through 16th and provide many people a chance to both look and fly in the aircraft. A little bit of history will put the importance of the Ford Tri-Motor in perspective with regards to aviation history. As the name implies, the aircraft is Ford company built and is powered by three Pratt & Whitney Wasp C 9-cylinder radial engines rated at 420 HP. The aircraft was a corrugated metal design and has a top speed of 90 mph. When the aircraft was deployed into service during the late 1920s, the concept of traveling from one coast to the other in the US was through a series of individual legs. Within a few months of its introduction, the airline carrier Transcontinental Air Transport was created to provide a coast-to-coast operation, capitalizing on the Tri-Motor and being able to provide comfortable passenger service. As part of its transcontinental service, the airline had to rely on rail connections with a deluxe Pullman train that would be based in New York being the first part of the journey. Passengers would then rendezvoused with a Tri-Motor in Port Columbus, Ohio, that would begin a hop with some refueling stops across the continent ending at Waynoka, Oklahoma where another train would take the passengers to Clovis, New Mexico. The final part of the journey would consist of a Tri-Motor, to end up at the Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale, a few miles north-east of Los Angeles.
in 1929 and is based out of the Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Michigan. This aircraft was configured as a US Army C-4A of which four were built as a military transport version. This aircraft was able to make a number of stops in the Northeast in June prior to future stops in the Midwest in July and August. It is odd to see an aircraft that is entirely corrugated which probably impeded the air flow on the surface, impacting speed and fuel consumption. The rigging of the landing gears and flight control surfaces are unique as well on this aircraft. EAA should be commended for keeping their aircraft in good shape and showing them to the public at large throughout the US.
Ford Tri-Motor aircraft is landing on north/ south runway at Calabro Airport in Long Island. The aircraft has been restored to US Army markings.
The charge of $75 per adult was a very reasonable price for the 20-minute flight and particularly great for photographers like me looking for aerial shots of Long Island. One felt particularly comfortable with both a pilot and co-pilot, along with three engines, traveling at a cruising speed of 90 mph. Other vintage aircraft flights during the course of the year, especially on WW II military aircraft run up to $500 a flight, so the EAA Tri-Motor was a great deal for Father’s Day. The volunteers from the airport community kept the perimeter secure. For many of the flights, the aircraft flew south from Brookhaven Airport towards scenic Fire Island. On my flight, it flew over Moriches Inlet in Fire Island. Other flight saw it fly over the new inlet west of Moriches Inlet that was created by Hurricane Sandy in October. The aircraft also did a flyover the Bayport Aerodrome with made for interesting spotting for people (I saw it from my home location that is five miles away from the airport). It is great for the general public and aircraft enthusiasts to be able to see an aircraft of this type up close as well as the opportunity to fly in it as well. Other vintage aircraft such as those brought by the History Flight organization (B-25 Mitchell, T-6 Texan and Stearman) have come to this airport on a regular basis also. Brookhaven Calabro Airport was a perfect location for this aircraft to fly its tours from because of its generally serene location and moderate aircraft traffic. In addition, there were many volunteers available to help out during this visit.
Side view of the aircraft shows that passengers enter into the aircraft through a door on the right side of the aircraft. This particular aircraft could seat ten passengers, five on each side.
The aircraft has a unique and identifiable profile when in flight.
Story and photos by Ken Neubeck
A total of 199 Ford Tri-Motors were built between 1926 and 1933, including 79 of the 4-AT variant, and 117 of the 5-AT variant, plus some experimental craft. Well over 100 airlines of the world flew the Ford Tri-Motor as well as several aircraft used by the US Army. The aircraft that flew to Calabro airport was one of two EAA Tri-motors that they own, this one being the 5-AT model that was made
The EAA Ford Tri-Motor is a 5-AT model that is configured in US Army markings.
The tour included a swing south over Fire Island. This photo shows Moriches Inlet with a few dozen fishing boats.
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multi engine's and I got jets and then I went to advanced training in Kingsville and there you went to get winged you select either Harriers, Hornets, or Prowlers for the Marines. They gave me Harriers with the duty station of Yuma Arizona which is where I'm based out of right now. I've been flying the Harrier for four years.
Captain Monica “Moose” Marusceac is a Marine Corps AV-8 Harrier pilot. I learned that she is the second ever female Marine Combat pilot. At the Watsonville Fly-In and Air Show she flew a demo in her AV-8 Harrier and I got to speak with her. I was commissioned in 2001 into the Marine Corps in December. I did not do ROTC or come from a military family. I really just wanted to fly and I also like the Marine Corps and their ethos and what they stand for, so it seemed like the perfect mix to fly for the Marine Corps. I went to OCC which is Officer’s Candidate Course at a college after I graduated and like I said I got commissioned in 2001. I went to flight school and that took altogether, with the Marine training and flight school, about four years, so I was winged in 2005. Out of the flight school I selected Harriers. It's like a two-part thing, you go first to primary and you select helos, jets, or
So do you have any cool stories that you can share? Cool stories ….. Usually they involve being scared around the boat, that's usually the scariest. They're not so much cool as they are mind blowing for me. In Southern California, just like here, there is the marine layer and low clouds over the water. On my most recent deployment we were doing what’s called workups where they have training ranges and the Harriers fly off the ship and they do simulated close air support for the guys on the ground right there in Camp Pendleton. So we took off and we went over to Camp Pendleton and we didn't have a ordinance but we talked to the guys on the ground and did
our mission, it was like a four hour mission, we had tanker support and everything. So we were coming back at night my navigational aids stop working and that's the way you find boat. You find the boat with a TAC Cam in my flight lead, I was attached to my flight lead and his TAC Cam worked just fine. This was at night and the light level was high up above the clouds but as soon as we went down below the clouds, it was just darker then you can imagine. All I could see as I was flying on his wing was the exhaust from his hot nozzles it was just a glow and everything else was black. I could see the ship but the ship was very dimly lit because we were wearing night vision goggles so you know it was this kind of blurry mass of lights. I tried to lay what we call a mark point over the ship when we flew over it but it wasn't very precise because the ship keeps moving so the ship has a TAC Cam on it so as the ship keeps moving it keeps updating my distance, but when you just lay a point, that point remain stationary while the ship moves away. Anyway to make a long story short, it was probably my scariest approach ever to the boat. We came into the break at about 300-350 knots and my lead broke and then I had to extend and then broke after him. So now I'm pretty far away from the ship, I don't really know where the ship is. I’m just seeing this little mass of lights off to the left side and I'm like okay I don't really know how far away I am from that. Usually we have always aids in the cockpit to say
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I have flown combat sorties. Unfortunately I didn't get to drop any ordinance so but mostly what we did was close support and nontraditional ISAR to the FACS, the forward air controllers, or JTACS, joint terminal attack controllers, but things were winding down in OIF (Operation Iraqi Freedom) so I didn't actually have to drop any bombs. Now you get to do the demos. How do you like doing the demos? Well you know this is my first demo today and I'm not a level III demo pilot so it's not going to be as cool as it normally is you know with the gear up transition stuff, but it still going to be a high-speed pass, come back for the break, hover, and Axel out. I’ll do a rolling vertical landing, FOD prevention, so two types of landed. I have to see that! Bring earplugs - it's really loud!
I haven’t flown any civilian by the way, I know nothing about civilian aviation, and really I’m remiss. I should know more. So I’m learning from all these guys about the Stearman, the Extra, and the Pitts. My husband is a CH-53 pilot in the Sea Stallion, you know the helicopters they can pick up your house, that guy, and right now he took nonflying orders so we could be stationed together. Conveniently, he’s going back to Miramar to fly the Super Stallion and I’m going to take nonflying orders to be with him so we’ll be able to live in the same house. But you know the Marine Corps is not easy and they make no promises about married couples been stationed together. “Moose” did a great job showing the crowd what the Harrier could do. You should have been there to hear the applause! 5/24/09 Interview by me, pictures by me and my dad. Evan Isenstein-Brand
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2013 Airshows Please be sure to check for up to date information about the airshow of your interest by checking their website. Many last minute changes are possible. Shows with lines through them have been cancelled. Dates Name 7/26-28 7/27-28 7/27-28 7/29-8/4 8/2-4 8/3-4 8/9-11 8/9-10 8/10-11 8/10-11 8/10-11 8/13 8/16-18 8/16-18 8/17 8/17 8/17-18
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Oregon International Air Show Fort St. John Air Show Thunder Over Delta Country EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013 Seafair Boeing Airshow Milwaukee Air & Water Show Abbotsford International Airshow Greater Binghamton Air Show Olympic Air Show Fargo Airshow Wings Over Vermont CAF Bluebonnet Airsho Greenwood Lake Air Show Rocky Mountain Airshow Armed Forces Day / Airshow Park County Wings & Wheels City of Chicago Air & Water Show
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HIO Hillsboro, OR www.oregonairshow.com Fort St John, British Columbia, Canada www.fsjairshow.com/ ESC Escanaba, MI www.upairshow.com/main.php OSH Oshkosh, WI www.airventure.org/ BFI Seattle, WA www.seafair.com Milwaukee, WI www.milwaukeeairshow.com/ YXX Abbotsford, BC www.abbotsfordairshow.com/ BGM Johnson City, NY OLM Olympia , WA www.olympicflightmuseum.com/airshow.php FAR Fargo, ND http://fargoairsho.com BTV Burlington, VT www.wingsoververmont.org/ BMQ Burnet, TX www.bluebonnetairshow.com 4N1 West Milford, NJ www.greenwoodlakeairshow.com/ BJC Broomfield, CO www.cosportaviation.org CYQQ CFB Comox, BC www.comoxairshow.ark.com Powell, WY www.pcwingsnwheels.com/ GYY Chicago, IL www.explorechicago.org/city/en/supporting_narrative/ events___special_events/special_events/mose/chicago_air_and_water.html 8/17-18 Wings Over Wine Country Air Show STS Santa Rosa, CA www.wingsoverwinecountry.org/ 8/17-18 Chilliwack Flight Fest Chilliwack, BC Canada http://chilliwackairshow.ca/ 8/17-18 Wings Over Camarillo CMA Camarillo, CA www.wingsovercamarillo.com/ 8/17-18 Lancaster Community Days Airshow LNS Lititz, PA www.lancasterairport.com/Common/EventsPromotions/Com munityDays/tabid/77/Default.aspx 8/17-18 New Garden Festival of Flight N57 Toughkenamon, PA www.newgardenflyingfield.com/ 8/23-24 The Airshow of the Cascades S33 Madras, OR www.cascadeairshow.com/ 8/23-25 Dover AFB Open House KDOV Dover AFB, DE www.dover.af.mil/ 8/24 Defenders of Freedom Open House OFF Offutt AFB, Bellevue, NE www.offuttairshow.com/ 8/24 Airshow 13 MTO Mattoon, IL www.colescountyairport.com/ 8/24 Fly Iowa 2013 PRO Perry, IA www.flyiowa.org/fly_iowa.shtml 8/24-25 KC Aviation Expo MKC Kansas City, MO www.kcairshow.com/ 8/24-25 Thunder Over the Valley Santa Maria, CA www.smmof.org/airshowinformation.aspx 8/24-25 Festival of Flight Air & Car Show N57 Toughkenamon, PA www.newgardenflyingfield.com/ 8/24-25 Wings Over Waukesha Air Show UES Waughkesha, WI www.wingsoverwaukesha.com/ 8/24-25 Defenders of Freedom Airshow Offutt AFB Belevue,NE www.offuttairshow.com/ 8/25 Oakland County Intern’l Open House PTK Waterford, MI www.ociaopenhouse.org/ 8/28 Milwaukee Airshow Milwaukee, WI www.milwaukeeairshow.com/ 8/28 Rotary Brantford Charity Air Show Brantford, Ontario, Canada www.facebook.com/pages/Rotary-Brantford-Charity-Air Show/111992042168784 8/30-9/1 Watsonville Fly-In & Air Show WVI Watsonville, CA www.watsonvilleairshow.org/ 8/31-9/1 NAS Patuxent River Air Expo NHK Patuxent River, MD 8/31-9/1 Rockford AirFest 2013 RFD Rockford, IL www.flyrfd.com/airfest.html 8/31-9/2 Cleveland National Air Show BKL Cleveland, OH www.clevelandairshow.com/ 8/31-9/2 Canadian International Air Show YYZ & YT Toronto, ON www.cias.org/ 9/6-8 SkyRaid Over South Jersey Medford, NJ www.facebook.com/SkyraidOverSouthJersey 9/7 Fort Scott Airport Day FSK Fort Scott, KS http://fortscott.com/september.php 9/7 Wings Over Waukegan UGN Waukegan, IL www.waukeganairshow.com 9/7 Vail Wheels & Wings Show EGE Gypsum, CO www.vailautoshow.com/wheels-and-wings 9/7-8 Catalina Air Show and Festival AVX Avalon, CA www.catalinaairshow.com/ 9/7-8 Restigouche County Air Show CYCL Charlo, NB http://villagecharlo.com/ 9/7-8 Chippewa Valley Airshow EAU Eau Claire, WI www.chippewavalleyairshow.com/ 9/7-8 Wings of Freedom Air Show SDY Sidney, MT www.sidneymt.com/events/airshow.asp 9/8 Cape Air Kirksville Air Fest IRK Kirksville, MO www.kvairfest.com/ 9/13-15 WACO Fly-in & Homecoming 1WF Troy, OH www.wacoairmuseum.org/
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28th Annual Simsbury Fly-In & Car Show Expected to be Biggest Ever Over its 28 year history, the Simsbury Fly-In & Car Show has seen spectacular growth and has become the largest event of its kind in New England. The Fly-In attracts as many as 700 beautiful airplanes and autos of virtually every kind, all displayed so spectators can see them up close and talk with their owners. As with any fly-in, much of the enjoyment is anticipating what airplanes might arrive for viewing; but none will disappoint. There are always antiques dating back to the 20's, many homebuilts, classics from the 50's, helicopters, light sport, and small warbirds. The car display is just as diverse, featuring everything from very old cars, trucks, fire engines and ex-military vehicles to new exotics such as Ferraris. The Simsbury Fly-In features many additional attractions, including kid’s activities, aviation seminars, and flying demonstrations. Many new car and airplane dealers display their new products. A wide range of exhibitors represent local and regional businesses of many kinds: crafts, toys, T-shirts, Ben and Jerry's ice cream, and lots of others. There will be activities for kids. Dogs are welcome and there will be a watering station for them. 2013 Fly-In is Sunday, September 15 This year’s Simsbury Fly-In will be held on Sunday, September 15, from 8 AM to 3 PM at Simsbury Airport (4B9). Many interesting activities have already been lined up, with more to come. Included this year will be rides in the RE/ MAX hot air balloon (winds permitting), displays by Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, the New England Air Museum, Owl’s Head Transportation Museum, and a demonstration of formation flying by the Yankee Clippers. Hartford Hospital’s LifeStar medevac helicopter will be on display so spectators can see it up close and talk with its crew. There will be judging and trophies in many categories for owners of display airplanes and cars.
Commitments this year for display of new aircraft are still being made, but so far include Aviat Husky, Cubcrafters, Searey, AeroAT, Evektor, Cirrus, Rans, FlightDesign, Highlander, and Ximango motor glider. It is hoped that Terrafugia, the car that converts to an airplane, will be on display as well, if its FAA certification process permits.
Whitehead Flew Two Years Before Wright Brothers? Of special interest to aviation history buffs will be a seminar presentation by the Connecticut Air and Space Museum about Gustav Whitehead, who arguably made a flight in the Bridgeport area two years before the Wright Brothers. The Whitehead aircraft has recently been the subject of increased speculation and debate. There were reportedly a number of witnesses who made written statements testifying to its first flight.
To validate its potential for flight, an accurate replica of the Whitehead aircraft was built and has been successfully flown. We are hoping that aircraft can be brought to the Simsbury Fly-In for display. Meanwhile, the Smithsonian Institution vigorously stands by its conclusion that the Wrights were the first to fly. This is one of the fundamental controversies in aviation. Porter and Chester Institute Presents Car Show The Simsbury Fly-In and Car Show is presented by the Simsbury Flying Club, with special help from the Porter and Chester Institute for the auto portion of the event, and support from EAA Chapter 324. More than 120 volunteers pitch in to help with everything from parking cars to greeting visitors to flipping burgers. Without them the show wouldn't go on.
Gates open at 8 AM. First order of business is a pancake breakfast, hosted by chef Angelo Chirico, whose offerings are often described as "the best I ever ate". Aircraft arrivals begin with first light. Lunch is served over the noon hour, including reasonably priced burgers and hot dogs, snacks, ice cream, soda, water and other delicious items. The event typically ends by 3 PM.
There's no admission charge. However, a donation would be greatly appreciated, and will help keep Simsbury Airport in operation for another year. Parking is nearby, at a cost of $5, with the Boy Scouts sharing the proceeds. Handicapped parking is available, as are accessible restroom facilities. Mark your calendars for Sunday, Sept 15. Meanwhile, check the Fly-In website at SimsburyFlyIn.com for updates, attractions, schedules, driving directions, FAA approach procedures and other useful info. See you there!
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A Photo Tour of Sentimental Journey 2013 Fly-ins come in all shapes and sizes. One of my favorites takes place each June in Lock Haven, PA at the site of the original Piper factory. The story is simply classic airplanes, good friends and long warm summer days. Please enjoy this brief photo journey around the fly-in as we take time to celebrate Sentimental Journey 2013. Gregory Huber of Medina, Ohio engages in one of the favorite pass times at Sentimental Journey, sitting by his airplane and talking to anyone who happens to pass by. Huber’s airplane is a 1952 Cessna 170B. Greg Koontz, airshow performer and aerobatic instructor, performed each day of the fly-in. Koontz performed in his clipped wing 85 hp Cub.
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Following his afternoon performance Koontz took time to talk with visitors and signed autographs. The highlight of the Koontz show for many is his landing and takeoff from what he claims to be the world’s shortest runway. Here he prepares to touch down on the platform of a moving truck. Sentimental Journey is many things to many people, but is without a doubt, one of most family friendly fly-ins around. Family and friends take advantage of the shade of the Cub to watch the air show and flybys. This one of a kind experimental is listed as a 1965 Warmkessel Korns Caper, AKA the Yellow Rat. Owner Thomas Huf takes part in the flower bombing contest.
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That’s just a small sample of the may wonder aircraft and folks you can find each June at the Sentimental Journey fly-in. Mark your calendar now for next June and we will see you in Lock Haven.
Story and photos by Mike Likavec
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The 28th Annual Sentimental Journey Piper Cub Fly-In William T. Piper Memorial Airport, Lock Haven, PA. Just as the Monarch butterflies make their journey to Mexico or the swallows return to Capistrano, hundreds of yellow Piper Cubs return to Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, every June. This year was no exception to this natural process, a pilgrimage to the birthplace, but it was an exceptional event in that there were two very rare airplanes there. To borrow from Charles Dickens, it was a “Tale of Two Airplanes”. Back in 1936, when Mr. Taylor and Mr. Piper were still working as a team, they produced the Taylor J-2 Cub. There on the airfield was a beautiful Taylor J-2 owned by Mark Stewart of Ocala, Florida. NC16667 was sitting there as a beautifully restored example, but with one very major difference. It flew in with a very rare Everel single-bladed counter-balanced propeller. The first sight impression causes more than just a double-take. “What the…” was the most common unfinished sentence heard from those who walked unsuspectingly up to the airplane. One blade is completely normal in appearance while the other looks like a pirate’s peg leg with a nicely rounded counterweight. A rarer sight could not be imagined. And then… Right beside this J-2 was another! Eugene “Gene” Breiner’s, of Newville, Pennsylvania. Gene had trusted a close friend to fly to Lock Haven in his Taylor J-2, also sporting an Everel single bladed counter-balanced propeller. It was an amazing sight and an amazing moment of synchronicity to see two such rare airplanes together. The pilots were just as surprised as the rest of us as they had not planned this encounter. The Everel propeller, designed in the 1930’s by Walter W. Everts, of Baltimore, Maryland, advertised numerous advantages, including faster takeoff and climb, less vibration, higher cruising and top speeds, greater fuel economy, reduced bending of blades and reduced gyroscopic action. It featured an automatic pitch changing action, shifting from shallow pitch on takeoff to deeper pitch at cruise. This went on to become the foundation for the two bladed Aeromatic Propeller. It was due to the generosity and friendship of Jessie Eckhart, whose father, Jesse Jones, had been the test pilot for the single bladed propellers, that Gene Breiner was able to borrow the propeller for flight on his J-2. (A short side note: Jesse Jones won a Taylorcraft race in Miami and beat all comers by more than a quarter mile. All were in Taylorcrafts with the same power. The only difference was the single bladed propeller.) Her generosity also provided the opportunity for Gene Breiner’s grandson, Alex Yaney, to solo in the J-2 with the “cropped prop” at Lock Haven. Alex, who is sixteen years of age, expects to become a certified private pilot on his seventeenth birthday….and he relates his story: “I became interested in aviation because of my family. My father was a
private pilot, my mother was a private pilot and air traffic controller, and my grandfather who is also a pilot, works with the FAA. I had my first flight in a PA-28 when I was 6 months old and I’ve been absolutely crazy about flying ever since. A little over a year ago I began taking flying lessons at Bermudian Valley Airpark in my family’s PA-12 Super Cruiser, which was restored by my grandfather and kept in the family in the hopes that I would learn to fly in it. Last summer, on my sixteenth birthday, I lived a dream and flew solo for the first time. I expected to be scared but I had never been so confident in my life. Since then I have been building hours and experience in anticipation for my seventeenth birthday on which I hope to take a check ride for my Private license. I flew the same PA-12 to Sentimental Journey Fly-In as my very first solo cross country and I was never actually expecting the opportunity to solo a Piper J-2 with a single blade propeller. I’ve grown up with a generation who are used to having technology everywhere, so the idea of flying an aircraft with absolutely no electrical system was a bit frightening. Having only one blade on the propeller didn’t help with that. My instructor was at the flyin with another student when my grandfather suggested the idea of me soloing the J-2. At that point it was long before my instructor was to give me a check ride in the aircraft. With only me in the aircraft it took off after less than a 40 foot run and climbed faster than I ever expected. It was without a doubt one of the greatest experiences I’ve ever had and I couldn’t be more thankful for having had the opportunity to solo an aircraft with a single bladed propeller.” Good On You, Alex!
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Sucker Punch for Aviation Lovers. calendar, while its link was still live. This was fishy enough. On Tuesday, news starting emerging of Jerry Yagen’s predicament, even though he had not addressed the issue in any official way. The story was true, and his awesome collection had been put up for sale. Details were still scarce, but confirmed by an article in the HamptonRoads, a local newspaper.
Who would have guessed that, just a month after “Warbirds over the Beach” its banner event, horrible news would come from the Military Aviation Museum (MAM) of Virginia Beach, Virginia?
It was further indicated there that a few parties interested in acquisition of some of his flying assets had visited Virginia Beach in the weeks
As those lines are written, a few more details have emerged about the sale of the collection. At this point in time Platinum Fighter Sales of Redondo Beach, California, has brokered the transfer of the Museum’s Focke-Wulf 190-A8 and its B-17G “Chuckie” to Jack Erickson’s Tillamook Air Museum, in Tillamook, Oregon.
On Monday June, 22nd, I received an e-mail from a good friend in England thanking me for the batches of pictures I broadcasted to all the aviation-minded people in my address book (let’s face it, I do not know anybody outside of the aviation world). If this was nice to read, this mention threw me off the walls: “Did you hear that Jerry Yagen is selling up? The Mossie is going to Rod Lewis”
materials and their modern engine) to $7 million for the Messerchmitt 262, powered by two General Electric jet engines.
prior to the announcement. As it happened, Kermit Weeks, had visited the MAM and evaluated the collection to fill some of his wants. From this point on, this piece of news became the talk of the town. The EAA took a couple more days to jump on the bandwagon and get a quote from Jerry. In a press release, he is supposed to have confided to his interviewer that: “The aircrafts cost a million dollars a year to maintain. The collection was more than $40 million to acquire, and the facility was $15 million. I simply can’t afford it anymore.”
This was first and depressing news. Even being at my office at the time and supposed to perform tasks in relation with my livelihood, I had to figure out rumors from fact for myself. After hours of surfing the web, I was not much more advanced and could not make up my mind one way or the other.
However, the Rod Lewis connection has not been yet confirmed, but seems to be a very attractive avenue of dispersion of some of the rarest pieces in the MAM collection, including the Mosquito.
Sounds like a quote seriously taken out of context to me, anybody with the business acumen of Jerry Yagen would not talk so bluntly! None-the-less, the collection is rumored to include over 100 airplanes, some 40 of them dispersed all around the world, at various stage of their restoration to flying status according to Jerry’s very stringent requirements (meaning very pricey to meet). The price range varies from $20,000 for the WWI replicas (built by the students of the vocational schools he used to own for the price of the
As for the Museum itself and its buildings, David Hunt, its Director put a positive spin on the situation in those terms: “We are still open for business and business is normal.”
The MAM website was not giving any indications of anything amiss, except for the calendar of events, blank after July 1st. While I had planned to attend the “Biplane and Triplane”, originally scheduled for October 12 and 13th, mention of the event was wiped out from the
Only time will tell... Stay tuned for some more news about the sucker punch that hit every period aviation enthusiast straight in the gut. Story and photos by Gilles Auliard
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Submit your group’s events. Email Sandy@aflyer.com New England (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT) Aug 3: Beverly Municipal Airport KBVY, East side in front of the tower. Airport Day from 9-3. Fly-in, fly-by or drive the airport. There will be vendors, food and activities all day.Bring your airplanes or classic cars to display . Contact Tom Lyons 978-430-4014. Aug 6: Wiscasset Municipal Airport, Wiscasset, ME Wings Over Wiscassett: Voices of Freesom 9 am - all day. All day FREE event. Food, music, static displays, antique cars, kids and family activities and entertainment. AIRSHOW with the Texas Flying Legends Museum and fireworks. Fundraiser for non-profits including Maine Aeronautics Association which support youth aviation programs and local Veterans programs, as well as community support to other non-profits.http://voicesoffreedom.org Contact: Dennis St Pierre Phone: 207-514-3885 Aug 11: Skylark Airpark (7B6) East Windsor, CT - Corn Roast Cookout Fly-In 11:00 AM 2:00 PM. Sponsored by EAA Chapter 1310. We get the freshest, sweetest corn available. Picked that morning. Also burgers and hot dogs off the grill, along with chips and soda. Check your weight balance before you leave since it’s all you can eat for a $7.00 donation. Contact: Lindsey Pell 860-281-1310. Aug 17: Lawrence Municipal Airport, North Andover, MA EAA106 flies YOUNG EAGLES (free flight experiences ages 8-17) 09:00 am - 12:00 pm EAA Chapter 106 will be offering FREE Young Eagle flight experiences at the Lawrence Municipal Airport. The number of youth who can be flown is limited by the number of EAA pilots available. Registration 9-Noon. The flight is for youth only, but a parent/ guardian must be present and sign the registration form. http://www.106.eaachapter.org/ eaa106youngeagles.htm Contact: Pres Penny. 508-284-5592 Sept 15: Myricks Airport (1M8) Berkley, MA. Myricks EAA 196 Fly-in. Join EAA Chapter 196 and pilots from the New England region for their annual fall fly-in and cook-out. Featuring airplanes - vintage, modern, ultralight, and experimental; Classic cars; Burgers and dogs from the EAA 196 grill; Candy drop, and more all in the intimate setting of an old-time grass airfield. 10:30 am to 3 pm. Contact Andy Goldstein 978212-9196, youngeagles@eaa196.org, http:// www.eaa196.org/ Sept 15: Simsbury Airport 4B9 - 28th Annual
Simsbury Fly-In and Car Show - 8AM to 3 PM - Largest Fly-in in New England - No Admission but donation requested - 650+ planes and cars of virtually every type and vintage. Judging and trophies. Many new aircraft and car dealers. Exhibits by Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, NE Air Museum, Owl’s Head Museum”. LifeStar medivac helo. RE/MAX hot air balloon. free aviation seminars. Special feature- Whitehead Aircraft replica and seminar- did he fly before the Wrights? Kids activities. See www.simsburyflyin.com for full event details, FAA approach procedures, video, photos, schedule, seminars, parking, drive directions, and contact info. Eastern (DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WV) Third Saturday May - September: Cooperstown NY (K23) Old Aeroplane Fly In Pancake Breakfast, 7am -11:30 all you can eat, great food, real Maple Syrup, great coffee. Lots of grass, no fences. Voted one of the best breakfast in the NE. info 607-547-2526. May thru October: White Birch Field (NK68) Deposit Flying Club, Deposit, NY ~ ($6) breakfast every Sunday 8am - 1pm consisting of coffee/tea, juice, pancakes, eggs, homefries, sausage and toast. For info call: 607-637-5429 Aug 4: ELM Elmira/Corning Regional Airport Elmira Corning, New York. Fly-In Pancake Breakfast 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM. EAA 533 HostsS a Fly-in/Drive-In Pancake Breakfast at the EAA Hangar. Pancakes, eggs, sausage, orange drink, and coffee will be served from 8:00am – 11:00am at $6.00 per person. Please check our website for details. Fly-in/Drive-In Pancake Breakfasts are open to the public.Contact: John Flanagan jflanaga@stny.rr.com, 607734-0469. http://www.eaa533.org Aug 10: 3NJ9 Allen Airstrip Vincentown, NJ Fly-in Pancake Breakfast 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pancakes,eggs,sauage,juice and coffee,Adult $6 Child $3 Benefit Jack Allen Museum. Stearman rides 75.00 donation Contact: Rick and Sharon Allen, rallen231@comcast.net, 609 267 8382 Aug 10: Smoketown, PA. Smoketown Airport (S37). Smoketown Fun Fly-in. 8am-3pm. Breakfast and Lunch, Pilot Seminars, Flour Bomb and Spot Landing Contests., Antique/ Warbird Special Parking, Door Prizes, Free T-Shirt to Pilots, Sun 8/11 Rain Date. Contact John Fuehrer, fuehrer@ptd.net, 717-575-2488. www.smoketownairport.com. Aug 17: KPSB Mid-State Airport Philipsburg, PA. Mid-State Airport Fly-in Breakfast (rain date 8/18/13) 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Flyin to honor 60th anniversary of Korean War with two M.A.S.H. helicopters, Korean War era military vehicles & infantry weapons plus other aircraft;1:00 AM: Veterans Flag Ceremony with guest speakers. Young Eagle Rides by Clearfield EAA & State College EAA. Pancake & Sausage Breakfast 8:00 - 11:30 AM (to benefit local Civil Air Patrol). Lunch from 12:00 to 4:00. Visit www.midstateairport.com for airport details/ Contact: M.A. Williams or Shawn Kirk gmawilliams@pennswoods.net, 814-342-6296 or 814-345-5023 Aug 24-25: New Garden Flying Field (N57) Toughkenamon, PA - EAA 240 Pancake Break-
fast and New Garden Air Show. Join us for one of the best Regional breakfasts, freshly cooked right in front of you, pancakes, sausage, eggs, coffee, OJ, All-You-Can-Eat, and just $6! Flyin, drive-in. 8:00 a.m. to noon. Air Show on both days. Entry fee required. See newgardenflyingfield.com for further Air Show information. Breakfasts are cooked and served at EAA240’s Membership Hangar at the unique and friendly New Garden Flying Field N57 airport, on the PA/DE border, close to Longwood Gardens. Come for the breakfast, see the airplanes, and visit the region! Contact: Harv Martens. Secretary@eaa240.org Sept 1: KDSV Dansville Municipal Airport Dansville, NY. Fly In Breakfast 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Fly in pancake breakfast, 8:00 AM- noon. Dansville NY KDSV. Pancakes,Sausage,Eggs,drinks.Necessary flight crew of pre-1946 aircraft get free breakfast. Check NOTAM for hot air balloon launch time!! Contact: Dansville Aero 585-204-4013 Sept 1: ELM Elmira/Corning Regional Airport Elmira Corning, New York. Fly-In Pancake Breakfast 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM. EAA 533 HostsS a Fly-in/Drive-In Pancake Breakfast at the EAA Hangar. Pancakes, eggs, sausage, orange drink, and coffee will be served from 8:00am – 11:00am at $6.00 per person. Please check our website for details. Fly-in/Drive-In Pancake Breakfasts are open to the public.Contact: John Flanagan jflanaga@stny.rr.com, 607734-0469. http://www.eaa533.org Sept 7: South Albany Airport (4B0) Annual Flap-Jack Fly-In Breakfast. (rain date 9/8) All you can eat $5. All types of aircraft welcome. $.25 gallon off 100LL event day. Tdragger@hotmail.com 518/281-5430 Sept 8: D52 Geneseo Airport Geneseo, NY Fly-In Chicken BBQ and Corn Roast 1:00 PM - 11:59 PM Stern’s Chicken, corn, salt potatoes, garden vegetables, rolls, desserts and beverages Contact: Austin Wadsworth, office@1941hag. org. 585-243-2100. http://1941hag.org Southern (AL, FL, GA, MS, NC, SC, TN) Aug 24: KEXX Davidson County Airport Lexington, NC. Big Toy Day Fly-In 10:00 AM 2:00 PM Communities in Schools and Fly High Lexington are pleased to announce the third annual Big Toy Day Fly-In. Come out and see Airplanes, cars, boats motorcyles and more. Call for more info. Contact: Fly High Lexington, info@flyhighlexington.com, 336-956-7774. http://flyhighlexington.com/news/events/ Sep 4-8: Triple Tree Aerodrome (SC00) Woodruf, SC - Triple Tree Aerodrome Fly-In.Triple Tree Arodrome is a jewel, from it’s 7000X400 bermuda grass runway sitting on over 400 acres of lush manicured grass. To it’s camp under the wing style camping areas. This is a world class event that is in it’s seventh year. Ulralights, homebuilts,antiques, and even WW2 bombers can be seen here! Check the website for s and arrival info.This is a must do!! www.tripletreeaerodrome.com/ See the current entire list online at www.AFlyer.com
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Biennial Flight Review “Airspeed, altitude, heading. Airspeed, altitude, heading.” The verbal drumbeat pounds in my head. I’m 25 feet above the ground and climbing, pilot-in-command of a spiffy little Piper Arrow. “Positive rate, gear up,” I announce, as I retract the landing gear. I ignore the incessant chant in my head long enough to notice the cars passing beneath me on Route 50. Man, I am already huffing and puffing and sweating like I’m hiking through a Florida swamp. I scan the Outside Air Temperature gauge: 32 degrees. In here? An inferno. “Um, 75 knots is a little slow for climbout,” drawls the flight instructor giving me the flight portion of my Biennial Flight Review. Airspeed, altitude, heading, trim, trim, trim! I add an extra lyric to the tattoo. It’s not enough that I see the airspeed. I’ve got to maintain it! Out loud I announce, “Six hundred feet. Flaps up,” as I push down on the long, brown manual flaps handle. Suddenly I realize I should have turned 10 seconds ago. I hamfist the plane into a sloppy, right-banking turn, putting me roughly into the crosswind leg of the airport traffic pattern. Wow. Ugly. My once fingertip-smooth aircraft control has deteriorated into a club-handed, full body, life-anddeath struggle with this behemoth of a Piper single — all one ton and a half of it. I’m battling a six-knot breeze off my left side like it’s the hurricane-force winds of a jet stream. Concentrate. Concentrate! Airspeed, altitude, heading, trim, trim, trim. I haven’t worked this hard on a departure since initial operating experience in good ol’ N654BR, my first jet, a Canadair Regional Jet. Fifty passengers in back and a flight deck sweeter than the Space Shuttle up front. Coasted along at .85 Mach…. “Altitude,” whispers the flight instructor. I slam the yoke forward, pushing the plane’s nose over, and yank back the throttle, arresting my climb. Daydreaming in the airport pattern can get a guy dead, or worse, slapped with an FAA violation. My abrupt control inputs send us into a zero-G moment, and the pen that a second ago lay flat on the dashboard now floats weightless past me. Fascinated by the floating pen, I notice too late I’ve flown too low. I abruptly pull back on the yoke, climbing herky jerky up to 1,100 feet above sea level, where I’m supposed to be. Airspeed, altitude, heading, trim, trim, trim. It’s time to make my pattern call. “Freeway traffic, Piper three-three-two-four-zero is crosswind for downwind, runway three-six, Freeway traffic.” Well, all right. At least my microphone skills are still intact. I sound deep-voiced, confident, as cool as Chuck Yeager. “Great. You still know how to make a radio call,” says my instructor. “Now what?” I glance outside. We’re parallel with the runway numbers. It’s time to configure the plane for land-
ing. Thank God. Another second of fighting this yoke in straight and level flight and my cramped arms are going to lose all sensation. What’s that pneumonic device again — GUMP? Gear, gas, mixture, prop? No, it’s gas, undercarriage, mixture, prop. Undercarriage! Really? Really?! Nobody says undercarriage anymore. In fact, I bet nobody ever did. “Dude, you’re long on the downwind.” I throw a look past my right wing. He’s right. I should still be able to clearly see the airport behind me, but it’s almost out of sight. I bank hard right, turning the plane onto the base leg of the pattern. It’s abrupt but at least this time it’s coordinated. What is wrong with me? Where’s my airmanship? Where’s my checklist discipline? After all, I’m not just a general aviation pilot. I’m a friggin’ airline pilot! Was, actually. Was an airline pilot. It’s been four years since my last airline furlough and three years since I flew a small plane anywhere. After that last furlough during the Great Recession of 2008 — the third of my career — I focused more on getting any job than on keeping up my flight skills. “You ever plan on bringing flaps into play?” asks my instructor. I reach for the lower instrument panel, searching, searching.… “What exactly are you looking for?” asks my cockpit comrade.
I’m thinking, “Really? I know how to fly, bub. I used to teach whippersnappers like you!” Instead I silently lower the last notch of flaps and pray to salvage the landing. Airspeed, altitude, heading, trim, trim, trim. As we float down the runway, I see the whole airfield in slow motion — from the last row of hangars to the gaggle of pilots hanging out in the picnic area to the windsock hanging limply, indicating calm winds and therefore no need for me to be nervously dancing on the rudder pedals. Nevertheless, I am. Nevertheless, I manage to land the plane smoothly. Only after I taxi off the runway and brake to a halt do I release my white-knuckle grip on the yoke. I am soaking wet, limp from fatigue and embarrassment. “First pattern out of the way,” the instructor says to me. “Another six and I should be able to sign you off.” “Are you kidding me? I thought you were gonna tell me to park the plane and go shred my license.” “Look,” he says. “I know flying is a highly perishable skill. I know it’s been three years since you last went up. And I also know you’re a good pilot. Now just relax and show me.” I allow myself a brief smile and reach for the controls. “Okay. Here we go.” By Victor Kilo
“The electric flaps switch.” “Do you mean the manual flaps handle you used to raise the flaps about a minute twenty seconds ago?” I lower the first notch of flaps, then shallow bank the plane from base leg to final.
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