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Published: 16 March 2025

    Greetings, Thanks to everyone that stopped by the APA and RAF booth at the AOPA Buckeye Air Fair. We had a great time, and it was great to be able to spend some time with our members and make some new friends. A special thanks to the RAF volunteers that helped man the booth over the weekend. We’re fortunate to have a great partnership with the RAF to help

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Published: 15 March 2025

    The flying weather has been great for the usual fly out for breakfast. It’s been cool and the airplane performance has been good, even if the flying skills have not been what we would prefer. Perhaps we should just go out a time or two, and do some sharpening up. In any event, let’s go flying!  The temperature has been going up, and we have been above the

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Published: 16 February 2025

    Greetings, The start of the new year is a busy time for APA and this year has been no exception. We recently attended the Arizona Aviation Safety Advisory Group’s (ASAG) 51st Annual Awards Banquet and were honored to present the Ruth Reinhold Award for Aviation Safety to Belinda Burnett, Director of Aviation Programs at Cochise College in Douglas, Arizona

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Published: 15 February 2025

    I hope all is going well for you so far this year. The days have been cool and the aircraft performance has been excellent in this nice cool air, and most certainly, the pilot performance should also be much improved. Except for a bit of wind at times, the flying weather has been generally great. I still can’t believe the length of this last hot summer. It

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Published: 16 January 2025

    Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday season. It always seems that the new year comes quickly and 2025 was no exception.  It’s going to be a busy start to the year, so I thought I’d mention few important items for your calendar: Grapevine Fly-In – January 17 - 19 - Our next Grapevine Fly-In and camping weekend is scheduled for the

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Published: 15 January 2025

    I hope everyone has had a very joyous Christmas, and have started on a most prosperous New Year. Unfortunately, as for me, I got involved in the Christmas and New Year celebrations and personal items that have gotten me behind the proverbial 8 ball, and as a result this January Executive Director’s Report will be a bit shorter than usual. Because the weather

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Published: 16 December 2024

    Another year has flown by and 2025 will be here before we know it. The winter flying weather is finally with us after the long, hot summer and I hope everyone is getting out to enjoy it. November is typically a busy month for the APA team and this past month has been no exception. APA and the Arizona Aviation Safety Advisory Group (ASAG) had the opportunity to

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Published: 15 December 2024

    The temperatures have been good now that it’s decided to cool down a bit. The weather has been great for flying, and it also seems that the bugs have been in hiding, because I haven’t been having to clean them off the windshield or airplane very often. So, let’s go flying and take advantage of the great weather, and I hope to see you out there! The APA is

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Published: 16 November 2024

    The cooler weather finally arrived, just in time for the October Grapevine Camping weekend. We had a great turnout with eight planes and twenty folks staying over for dinner and camping. Thanks to Mike Andresen for hosting our first event of the season. We still have camping weekend host slots open. If you are interested, take a look at the APA Volunteer

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Published: 15 November 2024

    As I’m writing this, it’s still a bit warm out by midday, but the early mornings are great. They are promising that by November we should be enjoying “cool” normal middays. We shall see. I still have a hard time getting my head around the fact that as we are starting to enjoy good flying weather, our cousins in the northern part of the country are now starting