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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

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Published: 15 April 2025

  By Howard Deevers   In 1960 there was a Movie called THE CROWDED SKY, packed with well-known actors of that time. The film had very few flying scenes, and it was mostly a “soap opera” about the characters the actors portrayed. Being interested in aviation, though, I did see the film. Even though I had no ratings or training at the time, I knew enough to

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Published: 14 April 2025

  We had another great turnout for the 2024 scholarship cycle with sixty-three applications being submitted. Through your donations we were fortunate to be able to award twelve scholarships to some deserving and well-qualified applicants. In this month’s Scholarship Corner, we’ll introduce some of our 2025 scholarship recipients. 2025 Scholarship Recipients Matreiya

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Published: 14 April 2025

   by Jim Timm   These pilot deviations need to be examined to determine if a common thread exists that we should address to help reduce the number of deviations that continue to occur, and thus enhance aviation safety. In the reporting period from February 14, 2025, through March 13, 2025, there were twenty-one pilot deviations reported by the FAA SDL FSDO

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Published: 20 March 2025

  by Jim Timm   The following are the reports of aviation accidents and incidents that have occurred in Arizona from mid-January through February. We hope to use the following detailed accident/incident information to develop safety programs, briefings, and posters/flyers that would help pilots learn from the mistakes being made by others and be able to take the

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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: 15 March 2025

  By Howard Deevers   Motion Sickness is hard to deal with. It is also a hard subject to write about, but here goes.... First of all, there are pilots who never get air sick, and sailors that never get seasick. I envy them, because I am not one of them. I thought that I would never learn to fly, because I got air sick on every lesson at the beginning. I also

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Published: 14 March 2025

   by Jim Timm   These pilot deviations need to be examined to determine if a common thread exists that we should address to help reduce the number of deviations that continue to occur and thus enhance aviation safety. In the reporting period from January 11, 2025, through February 13, 2025, there were thirty-two pilot deviations reported by the FAA SDL

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Published: 20 February 2025

  by Jim Timm   The following are the reports of aviation accidents and incidents that have occurred in Arizona from December through January. We hope to use the following detailed accident/incident information to develop safety programs, briefings, and posters/flyers that would help pilots learn from the mistakes being made by others, and be able to take the