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Published: 16 August 2025

    Greetings, Greetings, It’s been a busy year so far and despite the summer heat, July was no exception. I managed to make the annual aviation pilgrimage to Oshkosh last month and, as always, it was worth the trip. Overall, it was a great show, and I was fortunate to connect with a lot of our fellow APA members during the week. Special thanks to the

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Published: 15 August 2025

    The Saturday morning breakfast fights had to be put on hold for a time while many of us went to the EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh. I’m sure everyone had a great time. While it was a bit warm, and wet, I’m certain everyone survived. Speaking of hot, this coming Saturday it is predicted to be record breaking heat again, so another breakfast flight may have to be

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Published: 16 July 2025

    Greetings, As you may recall, we complete the yearly election for the APA Board of Directors at our Annual Meeting in the May timeframe. All BOD positions are filled by volunteers for three-year terms which are staggered to ensure board continuity. We’re extremely fortunate to have a great team and I know that each of them works hard to ensure that APA remains

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Published: 15 July 2025

    The Saturday morning breakfast fight program has gone rather well, except one time we canceled the flight because of the prediction of wind. As a result, we all drove to Chandler to the Hanger Cafe, which turned out to be a good call. The wind was excessive. Summer has arrived, and it’s HOT, but in spite of it, let’s go flying anyway. The present legislative

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Published: 16 June 2025

    Thanks to all of you who attended our Annual Meeting on May 10th in Scottsdale. We had a great turnout, and it was great to get together with our members to share all the work APA is doing to ensure you are represented at the legislative level, preserving our backcountry strips, and supporting the next generation of Arizona aviation professionals.  In

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Published: 15 June 2025

    The Saturday morning ritual of flying someplace for breakfast has gone pretty well recently, and the weather has been relatively cooperative. Something has been bothering me though, where have the bugs gone? I did take a short break from the breakfasts a while back, and that may have been when the bugs were out, but lately my flying has been rather bug free. I

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Published: 16 May 2025

    Greetings, Thanks to all of you that attended the April Grapevine camping weekend. Our Grapevine coordinator, Leanne Tawoda, reported that we had great turnout and weather for the event. Unfortunately, the warm weather is just around the corner, and this will be our last event for the season. We’ll pick back up in October and look forward to seeing you in the

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Published: 15 May 2025

    So far, we have been having pretty good flying weather, although sometimes it’s been a bit windy, but nothing like what pilots have to contend with much of the time in other parts of the country. So why don’t we just go flying and enjoy what we have! While we have been complaining about landing fees being accessed from information that is being taken from our

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Published: 16 April 2025

    Greetings, The Arizona spring weather has been a little unsettled and unfortunately, we were forced to cancel the March Grapevine Camping weekend that was due to be hosted by our friends John and Trish McKenna from The Recreational Aviation Foundation. This was certainly disappointing, but we’ve already planned to reschedule them for the October Grapevine

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Published: 15 April 2025

    We have had pretty good weather for the normal breakfast flights lately. To get there early, at least in most cases, we no longer have to get to the airport in the dark. So, let’s get up and go flying. We have been complaining about landing fees being accessed as a result of information that is being taken from our ADS-B data that is being transmitted