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Published: 09 May 2020

  The following are the NTSB reports of aviation accidents that occurred in Arizona from March through late April. APA uses this detailed accident information to develop safety programs, briefings, and flyers that help pilots learn from the mistakes being made by others, and take the action necessary to prevent them from having similar accidents. Aviation safety in the

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Published: 13 April 2020

  By Howard Deevers   What could be wild about Sheltering-in-Place or working from home, as we have all been encouraged to do? Not much change for me, since I already work from home for the most part. However, I am sure that these changes have been shocking or confusing to many since they came about so quickly. Flight instructing is not a “stay at home” industry

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Published: 13 April 2020

~  Scholarship Corner  ~   By Chris Nugent  I provided a quick overview of our 2019 scholarship winners in the last Scholarship Corner article. As we go through the next few months I’ll provide you a little more detail on each of our scholarship winners – I think you’ll be impressed with the with the commitment each of them have shown in pursuing

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Published: 13 April 2020

  By Carmine Mowbray, RAF   The RAF shared a double booth with the Arizona Pilots Association at Arizona’s annual Copperstate Fly-In Expo and Buckeye Air Fair February 6-9. Buckeye is west of Phoenix and claims to be the third fastest-growing city in the US. The spread lining the 5,500-ft runway hosted several dozen outdoor displays, 38 indoor displays, plus

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Published: 13 April 2020

  2020 To Date: As you know, our safety record for 2019 was the lowest it has been in the 10 years I have been tracking it.  It is ironic that 2020 started off almost exactly like 2019, with a fatal crash in January in which a passenger was fatality injured, but the pilot survived.    Kudos  Section – Well, in light of the Coronavirus

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Published: 09 April 2020

  I hope everyone has been able to do a little flying in spite of what has been happening around us. The Governor hadn’t closed down GA airports as of the writing of this, so hopefully you can go to the airport and go flying for a while. Practice some of the pilot training exercises to sharpen up the coordination skills and make a bunch of touch-and-go landings to keep

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Published: 09 April 2020

Greetings, What a difference a month makes. Nearly every facet of American life has been affected and changed due to CoVid-19. Unfortunately, it has impacted aviation. With Governor Ducey's order of Shelter-in-Place for Arizona, it has impacted us even further. As a precaution, the APA board decided to postpone our Annual Meeting. We had a great venue and guest speaker

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Published: 09 April 2020

  The following are the NTSB reports of aviation accidents that occurred in Arizona from late February through late March. APA will use this detailed accident information to develop safety programs, briefings, and posters/flyers that would help pilots learn from the mistakes being made by others and take the action necessary to prevent them from having similar

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Published: 16 March 2020

  2020 To Date: As you know, our safety record for 2019 was the best it has been in the 10 years I have been tracking it.  So far, as of the last week of February, as I write this, our safety record stands at perfect as per the NTSB reporting system.  We are off to a good start, and the hope is we can match, or beat, last year’s record. Because of the (Best

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Published: 16 March 2020

  By Howard Deevers   “Multi-tasking” sounded like such an important word the first time I heard that term. It sounds like you must really be smart, or on top of your game, to be able to do more than one thing at a time, right? Our computers are designed to do more than one thing at a time, but are humans really able to do more than one thing at a time? We would