What’s more important to you: Money in your bank account or a search and rescue operation if you go missing in your airplane? If your choice is for the search and rescue effort, you would be well-advised to switch your ELT from the old standby 121.5 to the newer 406 Mhz frequency. Lt. Col. Bill […]
Many pay respect to Slim Lawson
Several hundred people gathered at Spanaway airport Sunday May 3 to pay respects to Ralph ‘Slim’ Lawson who died last month. Known to all as Slim the owner and operator of the airport and flight school spent more than 26,000 hours in the air as an instructor and helped hundreds to enter the aviation industry. […]
Flying on Silver Wings
Did you solo at least 25 years ago? If so, you should join with others who accomplished that feat in the Silver Wings Fraternity, an international organization of pilots. Founded in 1958 by the late Russ Brinkley and several other pilots, it has grown over the years to include pilots from all aspects of aviation. […]
Taking the hassle out of flying
For many years I’ve maintained that the business executive who can afford a single or light twin airplane doesn’t get involved in flying for a couple of reasons. First is time. Many of these individuals started learning to fly or actually got their certificates as young people. As their businesses grew or they advanced in […]
Ask Dave: What’s the best way to keep drivers off our airpark’s runway?
Q: We’ve been having trouble at our airpark with delivery truck drivers, as well as individuals, driving down the runway when looking for someone’s house or just plain lost. We’ve put up signs and we’ve asked all our fly-in community residents to warn their friends about keeping to the correct streets and to be careful […]
An airpark for everone: Upgrades to Liwing With Plane website highlight the variety of fly-in communities
We’ve been working for quite a while now developing an upgrade to the Living With Your Plane website. It’s not ready yet, but we’re getting a lot closer. One of the new primary features of the improved website is a map with pins showing airparks — or, as some people refer to them, fly-in communities. […]
Demand still high for airparks
I’ve been working pretty consistently in recent days cleaning up our residential airpark directory, Living With Your Plane. With about 600 airparks in the directory, it is a never-ending job to keep the information current. Since most residential airparks are managed by the residents in a homeowners association or something like that, officers and contact […]
Survivor: AirVenture
Well, I survived one more Oshkosh experience! As I have for just about every year since 1970, I journeyed to Oshkosh for the annual EAA aviation extravaganza the last week of July. As usual, there was a huge crowd of planes, campers and people on hand. I don’t have any sort of count, but let […]
The FAA propaganda machine: Has you local newspaper fallen victim?
If you had any doubts as to whether the FAA was going to mount a full-scale attempt to secure increased general aviation funding for the Next Generation Air Traffic Control system, let me make it very clear: they are in full attack mode. How do I know that? Probably the most obvious reason I came […]