KANSAS CITY, MO. – When the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds aren’t available, who does the National Football League call for a fly-over? General aviation,…
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New Restaurant At Rochelle
ROCHELLE, ILL. – There’s a new restaurant a Rochelle Municipal Airport (KRPJ) called the “Flight Deck Bar & Grill” at the Chicagoland Skydiving Center. The restaurant is open beginning at…
Wichita Aero Club Creates Edward W. Stimpson Scholarship
WICHITA, KAN. – The Wichita Aero Club has announced the creation of the Edward W. Stimpson Scholarship to honor the memory of the late President of the General Aviation Manufacturers…
Iowa & Minnesota Flight Instructors Nationally Recognized
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. – The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) announced October 10, 2012, the winners of the inaugural “Flight Training Excellence Awards” at the AOPA Aviation Summit in…
AOPA Awards Flight Training Scholarships
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. – The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) awarded four $5,000 flight-training scholarships October 11, 2012 during the AOPA Aviation Summit in Palm Springs. The scholarship money…
Nick Carlucci Named Winner of AOPA’s Laurence P. Sharples Perpetual Award
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. – The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) named Nicholas F. Carlucci, Jr., the 2012 winner of the prestigious Laurence P. Sharples Perpetual Award – one of…
Pilot, City Commissioner Honored With AOPA’s Let’s Go Flying Award
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. – The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has named Jamie Beckett of Winter Haven, Fla., the recipient of its 2012 “Let’s Go Flying Award,” for his…
Stars Do Shine At AOPA Aviation Summit
by Dave Weiman PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. – The AOPA Aviation Summit, October 11-13, 2012, showed signs of stardom from both Hollywood and the GA community. Regardless of wealth, fame or…
Ask Pete!
by Pete Schoeninger Email your questions to Pete@Flymilwaukee.com Q: Last Winter when I pulled my airplane out of a heated hangar, it immediately was covered with frost on a couple…
We Have Winners!
by Craig L. Fuller President & CEO Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association If you’re a pilot, you owe a debt of gratitude to at least one flight instructor. For some…
Wrapping 2012 And Looking Forward To 2013
News & Information You’ll Want To Know In Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska & Iowa by Yasmina Platt Regional Manager, AOPA Central Southwest Region Believe it or not, we are almost in…
$100 Million & Much More!
by Bryan Budds, Manager AOPA Great Lakes Region As 2012 came to a close, all seven AOPA Regional Managers came together at the AOPA Aviation Summit held this year in…
Pitch Trim Can Work For You or How Smoothly Can You Fly?
by Harold Green An often used and frequently misused control in an airplane is the “pitch trim.” Frequently it is used just to relieve the pressure on the elevator control,…
Interfacing Our Avionics & iPads, ATC, Synthetic Vision & More!
by Michael J. “Mick” Kaufman My column for this issue will address several topics related to instrument flying. I will cover an avionics interfacing problem and how it was solved…
Sedentary Death Syndrome
by Dr. John Beasley, M.D. Aviation Medical Examiner Professor Emeritus and Clinical Professor Department of Family Medicine University of Wisconsin – Madison News Flash: Watching TV for an hour will…