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• Going My Way: Jeppesen’s VFR+GPS Charts

  It’s always bugged me that I need two sectional charts–Green Bay and Chicago–to get from my home in OSH to my family growing-up grounds west of the commercial Class B airspace plug stuck in the ground at ORD. It’s more than the... Posted Sep 02 2008, 04:51 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, charts, jeppesen, chart, terminal, navigation, sectional, shading

• New FAA Wings Program Stresses Proficiency, Not Award

  During the late 1990s I participated in the FAA Pilot Proficiency Award Program. Each year, in return for attending one safety seminar and logging three hours with an instructor (one each for airwork, patternwork, and hoodwork) I met the biennial flight... Posted Aug 25 2008, 02:43 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, aviation safety, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Wings Program, Pilot Safety, Pilot Training, Recurrent Training, FAA Pilot Proficiency Program

• Fun Flyer Lands Roll in new Amelia Earhart Film

  If time is short, never ask *** and Sharon Starks what they’ve been up to lately. Both pilots, these retired schoolteachers have a full flying life that any pilot would envy. Anxious to see Sharon’s new airplane, a Morane Model L parasol,... Posted Aug 13 2008, 07:35 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Kansas City Dawn Patrol, movie making, Airdrome Aeroplanes, Bleriot, Morane, Amelia Earhart, Flyboys

• Cole & Kittinger: Hearing History First Hand

  It seems fitting that my fourth decade of EAA AirVenture attendance starts like the first, meeting those who made the history I read about as a kid. On my first trip to Oshkosh in 1978 I met Pappy Boyington and George Gay (see EAA AirVenture Forums is... Posted Aug 02 2008, 03:19 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, General, Blogging, EAA AirVenture, Military, Man High, Project Excelsior, Doolittle Raid, 30 seconds over Tokyo, Dick Cole, Joe Kittinger

• Ken Scott: Multitasking at Van’s Aircraft

  Van’s Aircraft is a small company that’s put a big smile on faces who’ve taken to the sky in the company’s line of RVs. The handful of employees also wear big smiles, even after standing in the hot Oshkosh sun all day, because... Posted Aug 01 2008, 01:12 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, LSA, EAA AirVenture, Van’s Aircraft, Rotax 912S, RV-12, light-sport aircraft

• Backyard Flyer Fits Pilots of All Sizes

  As promised in a recent post ( Backyard Flying: Fun & Cheap ), I ambled down to the lightplane area at the south end of the EAA AirVenture site to try on Valley Engineering’s Backyard Flyer. It fit! To most people that may not be a big deal... Posted Jul 31 2008, 01:20 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Recreational Aviation, EAA AirVenture, Ultralights, Backyard Flyer, Valley Engineering

• EAA AirVenture Forums is Where Flying Friendships Form

  Six months out of the Navy I attended my first trip to Oshkosh in 1978. I went for the airplanes. Not one of them now stands out in memory. Not so with the people I met. Sitting in side-by-side booths in the old exhibit shed were Pappy Boyington of AVG... Posted Jul 24 2008, 06:59 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, EAA AirVenture, Pappy Boyington, Flying Friends, Forums, George Gay

• Make FAAST Your FAA Connection

  Am I the last airman in America to totally ignore the free and invaluable gift that is FAAST, the FAA Safety Team at www.FAASafety.gov ? Sometime during the past two years I gave the FAA my email address. When and how doesn’t matter. What’s... Posted Jul 17 2008, 02:26 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Pilot Proficiency Program, FAASTeam, Wings Program, avionics technician, airmen, maintenance technician, FAA Safety Team, FAA Handbooks

• Fuel Prices & Aviation Safety: Are They Related?

  Talking to friends, flight schools, and FBOs it is clear that I’m not the only one who isn’t flying as much as I used to. With avgas going for roughly $6 a gallon or more, depending where you live, direct operating costs are climbing faster... Posted Jul 10 2008, 01:23 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, aviation safety, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Pilot Population, Fuel Costs, GAMA, Oil Embargo, Accident Rate, NAFI

• Pilots Flock to Stick & Rudder Safety Clinic

  It’s been awhile since I’ve attended an FAA safety seminar. With good intentions I read all e-mail invitations FAASafety.gov sends, but other weekend responsibilities too often take precedence. A tailwheel clinic, on the other hand, is more... Posted Jul 03 2008, 01:47 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, taildragger, sport aviation, Tailwheel, FAA Safety Clinic, American Champion Aircraft

• Aerotrekking Back to Coffin Corner

  Given the world’s sorry state and aviation’s place in it, hope for the future is at the coffin corner. To help maintain that delicate balance it is natural to withdraw into–and protect–our little corner of aviation’s diverse... Posted Jun 12 2008, 04:49 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Airlines, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Military, trikes, Nothing by Chance, backcountry flying, Richard Bach, Aerotrekking, barnstorming, National Geographic Adventure

• Cessna Pilot Centers May be GA’s Last Hope for Reversing Pilot Population Decline

  Reversing the decline of the pilot population “is the most important thing we are addressing,” says Cessna Pilot Center Manager Julie Boatman. “We have several things in development that I’m not quite ready to talk about yet,”... Posted May 22 2008, 01:09 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Pilot Population, Sport Pilot, Learn to Fly, Cessna Pilot Center, General Aviation

• General Aviation Won’t Find Future Pilots in Rear View Mirror

  Pilots are a population in decline. We are getting old and resting our wings, and it saddens me no end to watch the industry trawl yesterday’s fishing grounds for tomorrow’s pilots, most of whom have moved on to places unknown. It’s... Posted May 15 2008, 01:36 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, sport aviation, Pilot Population, Flight School, Learn to Fly, Pilot Recruiting, Student Starts, CFIs, Be A Pilot

• LSA Trainers Can Cut Flight School Fuel Costs, Increase Student Pool

  On the ground and in the air, ever increasing fuel costs are eviscerating the disposable income of wannabe pilots and the profit margins of flight schools who teach them to fly. Looking forward, many schools are wringing their hands and searching for... Posted May 08 2008, 03:50 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, LSA, Flight School, Sport Pilot, Private Pilot, Avgas, Fuel Costs

• United Airlines’ Collateral Damage

  If I were a United Shareholder … Still trying to recover its corporate composure after a stinging slap in the face last week from Continental, United Airlines is now turning its focus on US Airways as a potential partner to reach the holy grail... Posted May 06 2008, 05:25 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, General