by Harold Green The previous “Flight Training” article in Midwest Flyer Magazine, ended with the turn onto final approach and the establishment of a stabilized approach at a predetermined airspeed…
Category: Columns
Do I Really Need To Do A Procedure Turn?
by Michael J. “Mick” Kaufman After a long drawn-out winter in the Midwest, the peak summer flying season is in motion with the world’s largest aviation event, “EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.”…
How Do You Know If You Are A Commercial Air Tour Operator?
by Greg Reigel The FAA Office of Chief Counsel addressed this issue in a recent “legal interpretation.” The interpretation responded to a request by an operator asking whether his operation…
FAA Tells EAA To Pay Up or Else!
by Dave Weiman The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) required the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) to pay $447,000 in “user fees” to cover the expenses associated with air traffic control services…
Preparation For Summer Flying Activities
by Jay Hietpas Assistant Director of Aeronautics With summer finally here, we can all look forward to the beautiful days that are the validation for why many people live here….
Transition From Towered To Non-Towered Airports
by Hal Davis Airport Compliance Manager As I write this article, federal sequestration is set to discontinue funding at eight (8) Wisconsin air traffic control towers on June 15, 2013….
Winning A Reprieve
by Craig Fuller President & CEO Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association A few weeks ago, in a moment of exceptional cross-party accord, both the House and Senate passed legislation giving the…
The 2013 Legislative Session Has Ended News & Information You’ll Want To Know In Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska & Iowa
by Yasmina Platt AOPA Central Southwest Regional Manager By the time you read this article, all of the legislative sessions in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa will have adjourned. Your…
The Sessions of Savings
by Bryan Budds AOPA Great Lakes Regional Manager Over the last few months, AOPA has been hard at work in statehouses across the Great Lakes Region with the goal of…
Gotcha! (Round 2)
by Dr. John Beasley, M.D. A couple of issues ago, I wrote about some of the things that get pilots in trouble with the medical certification system. The dreaded “Gotchas.” I…
Another Perspective On Landings
by Harold Green Probably since the dawn of human flight, powered or otherwise, pilots have been debating the best way to land aircraft. The literature is filled with articles offering…
The Skyguard TX ADS-B & Instrument Approach Charts
by Michael J. “Mick” Kaufman Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is FAA’s satellite-based successor to radar. ADS-B makes use of GPS technology to determine and share precise aircraft location information, and…
Is A Safety Pilot Acting As Second In Command? Not Necessarily!
by Greg Reigel If you are an instrument rated pilot, you know that you have to be “current” in order to legally exercise the privileges of an instrument rating as…
Help Show Them The Way!
by Dave Weiman At the “Minnesota Aviation Maintenance Technician Conference” in March in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, many of the exhibitors had “help wanted” signs in their booths, and I regularly…
Flight Testing & Transition Training… Getting Familiar With Our “Newest” Aeronautical Treasures
by Ed Leineweber So many airplanes; so little time!” That’s my motto. Maybe it’s just a bad case of Hyper Airplane Acquisition Disorder (HAAD). If so, I have given up…