Archive for July 2012
Catalina Island the Airport Time Forgot
At which Southern California airport can you walk right up to planes, visit a nature garden, see a vintage hangar, go on a 2-mile hike and afterward enjoy a bison burger, while taking in a panoramic view of the ocean?
Read MoreHappy 4th
Happy 4th of July from CalPilots!!!
Read MoreFAA Felt Offshore Wind Farm Pressure
BOSTON (AP) — Federal Aviation Administration employees felt political pressure to approve a wind farm planned off Cape Cod and did so amid internal disagreement over the best way to stop the turbines from interfering with radar and compromising airplane safety, according to FAA documents obtained by the project’s opponents.
Read MoreSanta Monica Paying Planes To Go Away
CalPilots Editor’s Note: Here’s the latest (proposed) lunacy from Santa Monica – obviously Santa Monica has more money than sense……
Read MorePilots Bill of Rights passes Senate
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a member of the Senate General Aviation Caucus and CFI with more than 10,000 flight hours, hailed the Senate’s unanimous passage of his bill, the Pilots’ Bill of Rights (S.1335). Inhofe has worked to pass the legislation for the past year. His bill had 65 co-sponsors.
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