(News of interest to California’s 72,000 pilots)

Oceanside (OKB): The Oceanside Airport Association continues to make great strides in unifying their pilot population as well as members of the community. At their April 6th BBQ, over 300people turned for the event, co-sponsored by Sea Winds Aviation.

The Electronic Age has planted itself firmly at our doorsteps, and it is time for pilots to fully embrace its capabilitites as a tool to preserve and promote aviation.

BILL NUMBER: AJR 29 CHAPTERED

On September 13, the following California Assembly Joint Resolution was introduced, the first of its kind for this subject in California’s legislative history. Similar resolutions were drafted in Florida and New York immediately after the September 11th attacks.

February 23, 2002

Honorable Gray Davis
Governor, State of California
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814

Re: Preservation of Safe and Efficient California Public Airports

She made a CPA dream become a reality, and it now www.pirep.org reaches across the Internet in an on-going effort to educate pilots about the Anti-aviation presence on the Internet.

In the Jan/Feb 2002 California Pilot, the issue of trees penetrating the 20:1 approach surface at multiple airports cost Siskiyou County the suspension of Caltrans funding to five of its airports. It also cost Dunsmuir Mott and Blue Canyon airports the suspension of their operating permits.

Mark Nahan is a flying machine. He’s an 18 year-old senior at Oak Park High School, in Oak Park, California, and he recently nailed his Instrument check ride. He bulls-eyed his Private rating on his 18th birthday, which pretty much serves to blow the candles out and off of any cake. You need to know about this guy…

Caltrans has suspended flight permit operations to Dunsmuir Muni Mott, and airport funds to five Siskiyou County-run airports have been suspended due to safety concerns over County height ordinance enforcement and wording.

Airports Across the Pond

I don’t know if you are aware but many pilots in the UK hold up GA in the USA as a panacea and something only to be dreamed of over here. I don’t think many of us realise that you are subject to the same pressures against your facilities and the same imperatives to defend your liberties. I’m sure the fact that we can look so enviously upon GA in the USA is in no small part the result of the vigilance of people such as yourselves and the support you find within your “user community.”

Oceanside (OKB): The newly formed Oceanside Airport Association has become the latest member to join CPA’s statewide family of airport, pilot and hangar associations.