Safety Alert from McGuire ATC
Request from McGuire ATC.
Chock Talk – September 30, 2020
Chock Talk – Sept 30, 2020
Blue Sky’s Own Hero
(updated with additional article – 10-2-2020) Just ran into these two articles today, both mentioning former Blue Sky member and WW2 pilot extraordinaire – Bob Vaucher. Some of you, no doubt, heard Bob’s presentation at our annual banquet several years back. Bob was to participate in the “Arsenal of Democracy” flight a couple days ago, …
$100 Hamburger…. Local Airport Restaurants
Sept 23, 2020 (updated Sept 26) Thanks to John Horan for bringing this handy list to our attention. It is maintained and hosted by PAFT (Princeton Airport’s Flying Tigers) and is fairly current. Additionally there are plenty of phone numbers to double check prior to departure. CLICK HERE FOR THE MOST RECENT PDF
Chock Talk – July 31, 2020
Chock Talk – July 31, 2020
Chock Talk May 31, 2020
Chock Talk May 31, 2020
Chock Talk – March 31, 2020
Chock Talk – March 31, 2020
Windy (weather app)
Nowadays there are SO many different sources to get weather information. “Windy” has been one of my go-to apps for a couple years. It is free and it offers lots of weather information that cannot be obtained in one spot elsewhere. Some of the information that it provides is not free elsewhere either, for example …
Inflight Weather Information
Recently the Board made a financial decision to end our subscription to XM weather, which was displayed on the yoke-mounted Garmin GPSmap396 in both the C-172 and C-182. The decision was made after an online poll of the membership indicated overwhelming support, since the same weather information is accessible through FIS-B, a component of ADS-B …
Learn to Fly – video set from 1947
BSAA member Adam Pivonka forwarded this to me. It’s an entire set of videos uploaded to youTube. Given their age, they are very professionally done and very informative too. Watch ’em. If you’re young, it’ll make you feel “retro”; If you’re old, you’ll feel really old. The Secret of Flight