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Published: 15 March 2022

  By Barbara Harper and Howard Deevers   The NTSB investigates accidents to determine “Probable Cause.” The investigations take months if not years, and the NTSB looks at every mechanical part, pilot qualifications, maintenance records, history, and weather, and more. The final report is quite extensive. Pilots can learn from reading these accident reports, but

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Published: 15 March 2022

~  Scholarship Corner  ~   By Chris Nugent In this month’s Scholarship Corner article, we will continue to provide some more information on our 2022 scholarship recipients. I believe it’s important that you hear from them directly, so I have asked each of them to provide a brief overview of themselves and their aviation career goals in their own

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Published: 15 February 2022

  By Howard Deevers Every year, while growing up in the upper mid-west, we looked forward to Spring and warmer weather. What we did not look forward to was Spring Cleaning. Not because it wasn’t a good thing, but it meant extra work helping mom doing things that we had not done in months. Maybe we had to move furniture, or carry out rugs and hang them on a line, or

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Published: 15 February 2022

~  Scholarship Corner  ~   By Chris Nugent As I mentioned in last month’s Scholarship Corner, we had a record response to the call for 2021 scholarship applications and the APA membership stepped up as well with record donations to the program. I’m very proud of the work that we do as an association with the scholarship program and it’s always great to

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Published: 15 January 2022

  By Howard Deevers At the beginning of any new year, we always pause to think about the last year, or last few years, and to think ahead to what may come in the next year, setting our so called “New Year Resolutions.” Did you make any resolutions for this year? It's only been 12 months since I made the same resolutions that I made a year before that: lose weight

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Published: 15 January 2022

~  Scholarship Corner  ~   By Chris Nugent As I reported in last month’s scholarship program update, we had an overwhelming response to the 2021 call for scholarship applications with a total of forty received. This was a significant increase from the twenty-nine we received last year. The overall quality of the scholarship applications has always been

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Published: 15 December 2021

  By Howard Deevers Anyone with a pilot’s license in the U. S. knows that English is the established language for aviation. Since 2008, all pilots’ licenses issued have a statement on them: “English Proficient.” English, as the official language of aviation, was established in 1944 at a Convention in Chicago, in an effort to standardize aviation in many ways. Why

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Published: 15 December 2021

~  Scholarship Corner  ~   By Chris Nugent As I reported last month, we received a record number of forty applications for this year’s scholarship cycle. That is up from twenty-nine last year which is really encouraging based on the general upheaval we have experienced in our lives over the last two years. The scholarship committee has been hard at work

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Published: 15 November 2021

  By Howard Deevers Several times per year I read an article about a group of volunteer pilots who have pitched in and saved their local airport. The story is usually about the same, where local people that don't fly, have other interests and want to close the airport. Or, the “old” airport is just falling apart from lack of maintenance, and the pilots did the work

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Published: 15 November 2021

~  Scholarship Corner  ~   By Chris Nugent We closed the 2021 APA scholarship cycle at the end of October, and we set another record for the program with forty applications being submitted. This is up significantly from the twenty-nine we received in 2020 and 24 in 2019. Although we have not started our formal review process, I always look through the