Guest Speaker
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Air Shows As GA Rallying PointWorking together to benefit general aviation As much of the aviation industry suffered through the effects of the historic economic downturn during the last year, the air show industry experienced double-digit growth and, in some markets, record attendance. |
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 My SecretHow teamwork makes for the best job in the sky I have a secret that I’m going to let fly with the aviation community. |
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Reflections On Inner & Outer FlightReaching beyond self-imposed limitations Why are we so fascinated by flight? What draws us to it? What makes flight so special? |
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Bringing The “Sport” Back To Flying (Kirk Hawkins)Appealing to the emotional rather than the practical may be the key to revitalizing GA In 2004, the FAA passed what has been called the “biggest change in aviation in 50 years”—it created the LSA category and sport pilot license. “So what?” you ask. You’ve already got your private, commercial, instrument, CFI and MEI ratings, and your Eagle Scout Badge. |
Thursday, June 11, 2009 2009 National CFI of the YearImproving the learning process Recently, a VFR pilot flying a Cessna 172 departed after dark in VMC and flew into IMC. Shortly after takeoff, the pilot reported an electrical failure to ATC, but continued into a thickening blanket of fog. |
Friday, May 1, 2009 Smoke On!Pushing my Edge to the edge over the Danube It’s hot in this race plane…even at 1,000 feet…or is it just me? My mouth is dry and my heart is racing as I watch the competitor before me twisting his way through the track. |
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Protecting Kenya’s National ParksTraining the Kenya Wildlife Service Airwing I often wear a little leather choker with two bronze elephant tusks. I picked it up a few years ago in a Nairobi gallery called Matt Bronze, and it reminds me of the wild things that still live in Kenya. |
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Personal Aviation At A CrossroadsLooking back and moving forward Five years ago, the first special light-sport aircraft (S-LSA) received its airworthiness certificate, opening up a new chapter in the regulation of simple personal flight. More than 1,000 of these factory-built aircraft and more than 8,000 former ultralights (experimental light-sport aircraft, E-LSA) are now flying under the sport pilot and LSA category. |
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Gaining Your Pilot’s LicenseAn opportunity to see the world from a different perspective Leonardo da Vinci once said, “For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” There are more than 600,000 registered pilots in the United States, and each of them can relate to this quote. |
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2008 Reno Air RacesEvolution of the Jet Class In 2001, “the year that never was,” I was part of the initial attempt to race jet airplanes in the Reno Air Races. |
