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February 27, 2014 at 5:30pm
Let’s get away from the hangar and meet your fellow pilots and their spouses for the Arizona Pilots Association Social Hour on Thursday, February 27th at McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon in the Desert Ridge Marketplace, 21001 N. Tatum Blvd, beginning at 5:30 pm. Dress is casual.
We’ll have a no host Happy Hour menu and a ‘pilot’
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By Mark Spencer
It’s a new year, a new legislative session, and a new day in the struggle to gain equal access to the Tuweep airstrip for Arizona pilots.
For our members’ benefit, here is a very brief history of the Tuweep struggle:
The Tuweep airstrip has been closed for nearly 10 years now for the expressed purpose of reducing
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3rd Annual - P48 Pleasant Valley (Turf) Fly-In Saturday February 22nd8:30 am – noon
CTAF 122.9
Right traffic runways 14, 23R, 5C, and 5R
- 9 am - Accuracy Landing Practice &Duck Drop
- 10 am – Mountain Flying Lecture
- Discount Glider Rides
- Tethered Hot Air Balloon
- Static Airplane Display
- 11 am – Fly-out to Wayside Restaurant near Alamo Lake for lunch
- Noon – CJ6
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FEBRUARY 2014
In this regular reporting of aviation accidents that have occurred in Arizona, we must continue to help pilots learn from the mistakes being made and take the necessary action to prevent similar accidents from occurring.
During this last reporting period, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reported four accidents that had occurred
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FEBRUARY 2013
I hope everyone made a New Year’s Resolution to do more flying this year. The weather recently has certainly been conducive for doing just that. I hope everyone has been able to take advantage of it.
Of 25 applicants, the FAA has finally announced the six test site locations for the development and testing of UAV/drone systems to permit their safe
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Back to Basics Safety and Education Program
Decision Making - Takeoff Distance and Landing Rollout
Saturday, January 11, 2014 at 9:00AM
Pleasant Valley/Turf Airport (P48)
Please come out this Saturday and participate in a Second Saturday Back to Basics Safety and Education program. Back to Basics will take place every Second Saturday throughout 2014 and will focus on a
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JANUARY 2013
I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a safe Happy New Year. The new year is going to be filled with a lot of new challenges for all of us and the Arizona Pilots Association. One of the challenges for me will be to find more time for flying my airplane and meeting other APA members around the state. We all need to get out there and aviate
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JANUARY 2014
In this regular reporting of aviation accidents that have occurred in Arizona, we must continue to help pilots learn from the mistakes being made and take the necessary action to prevent similar accidents from occurring.
During this last reporting period, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) records reported three accidents that had
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DECEMBER 2013
Fall is here and flying has been great! With the fly in’s and other flying events taking place, it’s difficult to decide which to take in with everything that's happening. It was good to have had the opportunity to visit with many of you that stopped by the APA and RAF display at the recent Copperstate Fly In at Casa Grande. I would guess that we
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