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Published: 21 April 2025

By Andy Durbin   Most Arizona pilots will have heard that the floors of some MOAs will be, or have been, lowered to the surface.  Did you know that fast jets are also operating down to the surface outside of charted MOAs?  I didn't until I was walking around at Buzzard Roost after landing there earlier this year. For those that don't know Buzzard Roost, it's a

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Published: 17 April 2025

  by Mike McCann APA Day Trip Coordinator    Our APA Day trip to Yuma International Airport and the Yuma Landing restaurant was a great success.  Sunny weather (with cool temperatures in Yuma) made for an enjoyable flight. Interestingly, everyone who participated came from the various Phoenix metro airports (FFZ, DVT, 18AZ) with a nice variety of

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Published: 18 February 2025

  By Mike McCann APA Day Trip Coordinator   Tombstone (P29) Arrival time: 8:30 – 9:00am   RSVP Hotlink link for website https://forms.gle/icqb2ioJhyq7wyzy9 Greetings everyone! For our second day trip in 2025, we’ll be doing something very different. Last month we headed west to Lake Havasu. This month, we’ll be heading south to Tombstone, AZ. Not many

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Published: 18 February 2025

  By Mike McCann  APA Day Trip Coordinator   January’s APA Day trip to Lake Havasu was a great success. 37 pilots and passengers made the flight and enjoyed great weather (both perfect temperatures and CALM winds!). APA members came from all parts of Arizona to meet up for a great lunch at the Hanger 24 restaurant. We also had several pilots from the Phoenix

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Published: 22 January 2025

  By Mike McCann APA Day Trip Coordinator   2024 was a very active year for our day trip flying.  A total of eight separate day trips were scheduled with only one cancelled due to bad weather.  Over 100 pilots and passengers and 50 aircraft collectively flew to destinations including Marble Canyon, Seligman, Mogollon Rim, and Grand Canyon.  One of

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Published: 19 January 2025

By Rod Kunkel    Cottonwood, AZ April 25 - 27, 2025   Our first weekend getaway of 2025 will be to Cottonwood, AZ from Friday 4/25 - Sunday 4/27.  The trip will feature a ride on the Verde Canyon Railroad, chuckwagon supper and western show, dinner at a local vineyard, plus free time in Jerome and Old Cottonwood.   Here is the itinerary: Friday

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Published: 18 January 2025

  By Mike McCann APA Day Trip Coordinator   January 18 Day Trip: Lake Havasu, Arizona (KHII) KHII Arrival time:  10:45am RSVP:  https://forms.gle/7VeQ3AYAH9iuQwnv7   Greetings everyone!  For our first day trip in 2025, we’ll be heading to Lake Havasu.  Some of you may recall that our planned trip to KHII during mid-2024 was scrubbed

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Published: 18 November 2024

  By Mike McCann   Luck was on our side for last Saturday’s flight to the Grand Canyon Airport.  Weather at KGCN airport can often be windy and cold during late October, but the winds were calm and the outdoor temperatures perfect under clear and sunny skies as eleven aircraft, with twenty pilots and passengers, arrived as planned. One aircraft had a

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Published: 18 October 2024

  By Mike McCann   KGCN Arrival time:  8:30am --- Air-to-Air frequency: 123.45 RSVP Hotlink   For our October day trip, we’ll be doing something a bit different.  Our destination will be the Grand Canyon Airport (KGCN).  It’s located just a few miles south of the South Rim and about a one-hour flight from Phoenix.  The morning air

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Published: 19 September 2024

By Rod KunKel & Chris Nugent   Chris Nugent and I took my 182 on a weeklong trip in mid-August.  We got as far north as Glacier National Park in Montana, almost to the Canadian border.  We saw plenty of spectacular scenery, ate a lot of good food, and drank some good beer.  We successfully avoided inclement weather along the way, with the 182