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What Have You Done To Promote General Aviation?

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

This morning I was perusing the AOPA Aviation Forum and read through a thread titled, “What Have You Done For GA?” (Note: you need an AOPA login to read the forum.) The pundits are claiming that general aviation is “hurting” – that flying small planes is a dying hobby, avocation and/or vocation. Taxes, fees, security [...]

One of the Joys of Aviation

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

A couple evenings ago I received an email from Bob, a fellow pilot, who has an interesting Web site about his flying experiences, The Joy of Aviation. Bob has begun the intensive work (fun) required to become instrument rated. Admittedly, all flying is fun to some of us “hard cases,” but some of the training [...]

100,000 Hugs and a Flight Around the World

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

While attending an Internet marketing conference in Las Vegas last month I was hanging out with a flying buddy and we met an interesting lady with a unique flying mission. Pictured in the photo to the right is my friend, Bob, and Gail Lynne Goodwin who plans to fly around the world with her husband [...]