Archives: Flying & Flight Experiences

Sunset Flight

by Dean Zakos © Copyright 2024. All Rights Reserved! Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine April/May 2024 Digital Issue “Enjoy the little things in life because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.” – Kurt Vonnegut … Continue reading

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Quitting While You Are Ahead

by Dean Zakos © Copyright 2023.  All Rights Reserved! (Excerpted from Laughing with the Wind) Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine December 2023 Digital Issue “It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.” – Scott … Continue reading

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Figure It Out

by Diane Earhart © Copyright 2023. All rights reserved! Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine October/November 2023 Digital Issue Checklists are good. You should use them. But what do you do when something happens for which there is no checklist? What … Continue reading

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Pattern Practice

by Dean Zakos S.J.A. © Copyright 2023. All rights reserved! Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine October/November 2023 Digital Issue The man stood next to the flagpole and felt the autumn breeze brush lightly over him. The faded colors above his … Continue reading

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Deference and Dodging A Bullet

by Dean Zakos (An Excerpt from Laughing with the Wind) Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine August/September 2023 Digital Issue “Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.” – William Shenstone It is natural … Continue reading

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Threading the Needle

by Dean Zakos © Dean Zakos. 2023 All Rights Reserved. Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine June/July 2023 Digital Issue I loved being in the air. I was 26 years old, tall and gangly, in 1972. I was the newbie First … Continue reading

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South Dakota Wing of the Civil Air Patrol Uses Missing Horse Search For Advanced Training

by Dave Weiman © Copyright 2023. All rights reserved. Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine June/July 2023 Digital Issue The South Dakota Wing of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) was part of an effort to find a missing horse that broke … Continue reading

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Who is the Teacher?

by Dean Zakos © Dean Zakos 2023. All Rights Reserved. Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine April/May 2023 Digital Issue “When one teaches, two learn.” – Robert Heinlein I am sitting, perhaps a little too casually, in the right seat of … Continue reading

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Flying the Line

by Dean Zakos © Dean Zakos. 2023 All Rights Reserved. Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine February/March 2023 Digital Issue I was startled awake. The buzzing alarm clock did its job exceedingly well. It was a raw, windy day in March … Continue reading

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Smokeout 2021

by Patrick J. McDonald, ATP, CFI-I Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine February/March 2023 Digital Issue The time is late summer of 2021, and for months, my only living brother and I had anticipated another carefree sightseeing flight to the great … Continue reading

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