Archive for September 2011
Long Beach – 100th anniversary of Cal Rodgers’ Epic Flight
A series of events celebrating Cal Rodgers’ flight from Sheespshead Bay, N.Y., to Long Beach, California, will takeoff Saturday, Sept. 17 – the same day Rodgers began his transcontinental quest 100 years ago.
Read MoreMRY Now Monterey Regional Airport
Don’t call it Monterey Peninsula Airport anymore. The airport will now be known as Monterey Regional Airport, district directors decided unanimously on Wednesday.
Read MoreRunway Safety Forum & Open House
“Runway Safety Forum & Open House with Surface Navigation for Aviation Professionals (SNAP)”
Read MoreIUOE Strike Reduces Services at Lincoln Regional Airport [LHM]
Members of the International Union on Operating Engineers (IUOE), Local 39, Classified Unit initiated a strike against the City of Lincoln at 6 am this morning, September 14. For the aviation community, this action sidelined the two city employees that operate the Lincoln Regional Airport’s full-service fueling trucks.
Read MoreOceano Airport Visitors Now Have Bikes Option
The Friends of Oceano Airport are pleased to announce the opening of our new Fly and Ride airport bike shed. Read More
Santa Barbara Airport Gets Facelift
The new Santa Barbara Airport Airline Terminal is nearing completion and is expected to become fully operational in mid-summer.
Read MoreSanta Rosa Airport Expansion Results in Debate
It’s a similar issue involving all airports – balancing the regions’ aviation transporation and travel requirements versus managing the noise associated with the municipal airport.
Read More100LL Lawsuit – It's the CEH's Business
“The Center for Environmental Health generates much of its revenue by suing – or threatening to sue – alleged Proposition 65 violators, and then collecting “reasonable” attorney’s fees from the same violators.” (CalPilots Editor’s Note: That isn’t Environmentalism, it’s a business). Read the entire dailybreeze.com article below.
Read MoreStraighten up and fly right!
The roundout in a small airplane is a slow, smooth transition from a normal approach attitude to a landing attitude, gradually rounding out the flightpath to one that is parallel with, and within a very few inches above, the runway.
Read MoreWatsonville Airshow Sept 2-4
Summer is almost over – why not take in an Airshow on this Holiday Weekend?
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