I have found that women are not only just as much interested as men are in flying, but apparently have less fear than the men have. At least, more women than men asked to go up with me. And when I took them up, they seemed to enjoy it.

Katherine Stinson, quoted in Katherine Stinson: The Flying Schoolgirl by Debra L. Winegarten

Young Ladies, Join the fun!

The fourth international Girls in Aviation Day is set for October 13, 2018.

Our local airport will be holding and event from 11 AM to 3 PM on this day.

Please R.S.V.P. by October 10, 2018

To sign up for this event, please Click Here

For an event in your area, please Click Here

Women in Aviation International (WAI) estimates this year’s event will expand again reaching approximately 15,000 girls, ages 8-17, around the world.

Girl in Aviation Promotion Video

Other Upcoming Events

October 6 – 7, 2018

Jason Flood, The Raiders Demo Team and more!

October 20, 2018

Sky Kids Special Needs Children

Signature Aviation Support
Morristown Municipal Airport
1 Airport Road
Morristown, NJ 07960

Time: Start the day – 7:00AM

Pilots interested in volunteering their services, please visit: http://skykidsusa.org/reqpilots.html

GROUND SCHOOLS

Private Pilot Ground School for Primary and Potential Students 

If you are thinking about getting your private pilot licence, presently learning to fly, or would just like to refresh your aviation knowledge, this class may be just for you.  Classes will now start Tuesday October 2 at 6 PM – 10:00 PM and run for each Tuesday evening for the next 10 weeks. This class will include a visit to the Freeflight Aviation Aircraft Maintance Shop. This class will be taught by Flight Instructor Shannon Wea.  Price is only $270.00. (Training books not included)

Visit our Facebook Link for additional Information.

Instrument Ground School by Bob McCabe

Wednesday Evenings for 14 Weeks

Starting October 17, 2018 depending upon student sign up or later….

Price: $349 for the complete course or $40 per session

(Textbooks and pilot supplies sold separately)

• Comprehensive ground school covering all aeronautical knowledge required for the Instrument Pilot Rating
• At course completion, students who pass a sample test will receive an endorsement to take the FAA Knowledge Test. (Unlimited number of practice tests).
• Experienced pilots may attend the sessions of their choice as an excellent refresher. • Rusty pilots will find this training a great way to get back in the game.

Visit our Facebook Page for additional information

Flight Instructor Bob McCabe and his newly rated Pilot, Evan

Don’t Miss the Upcoming Airshow at our Airport

– The Flying W Airport, Medford, NJ –

Video by Zinger Aviation Media

Airplane (1980)

Dr. Rumack: Can you fly this plane, and land it?
Ted Striker: Surely you can’t be serious.
Dr. Rumack: I am serious…and don’t call me Shirley.

It’s Show Time!

Festival of Lights

August 18-19, 2018

New Garden Flying Field, Toughkenamon, PA

The Atlantic City Airshow

Wednesday August 22, 2018

The Thunder is back, along with the Canadian Snowbirds.

AirFest 2018

August 31 – October 3, 2018

Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum

The Collings Foundation flies in with WWII bombers, including: B-24 Liberator, B-17 Flying Fortress, and P-51 Mustang

The Elite New York

September 8- 9, 2018
Essex Airport, Caldwell, NJ

The Elite New York showcases the finest offerings from all private aviation sectors including jets, helicopters, aircraft charter and associated luxury lifestyle brands.

Parachute Pyrotechnic Show

September 15, 2018

Ocean City NJ Boardwalk & Beach

Boardwalk Aerobatic Airshow

September 16, 2018

Ocean City NJ Boardwalk & Beach

Wings and Wheels in Georgetown, DE

October 5-6

DELAWARE COASTAL AIRPORT

The Flying W Airport’s Airshow

October 6 – 7, 2018

Jason Flood, The Raiders Demo Team and more!

For the Flyers from Sporty’s – Getting There!

A systematic approach to planning a trip in ForeFlight.

In this Sporty’s post, they will walk through a procedure for planning a flight.

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.     

Dale Turner

KEEPING FUELED

Just a reminder, the Flying W Airport will fuel aircraft up to 6 PM.  Please plan a head of time with their front desk or the student/instructor on the Freeflight Schedule who is taking flight earlier in the day for fueling the aircraft.  Please be respectful of the Flying W Airport’s front desk, give them a call before 6 PM, not 0-15 minutes before 6 when they are planning on leaving the airport to leave.

South Jersey has fuel until 8 pm on the field.  You can also visit http://airnav.com/ for self serve stations along your planned root of flight.

GROUND SCHOOLS

Private Pilot Ground School for Primary and Potential Students 

If you are thinking about getting your private pilot licence, presently learning to fly, or would just like to refresh your aviation knowledge, this class may be just for you.  Classes will now start Tuesday September 11 at 6 PM – 10:00 PM and run for each Tuesday evening for the next 10 weeks. This class will include a visit to the Freeflight Aviation Aircraft Maintance Shop. This class will be taught by Flight Instructor Shannon Wea.  Price is only $270.00. (Training books not included)

Visit our Facebook Link for additional Information.

Instrument Ground School by Bob McCabe

Wednesday Evenings for 14 Weeks

Starting October 17, 2018 depending upon student sign up or later….

Price: $349 for the complete course or $40 per session

(Textbooks and pilot supplies sold separately)

• Comprehensive ground school covering all aeronautical knowledge required for the Instrument Pilot Rating
• At course completion, students who pass a sample test will receive an endorsement to take the FAA Knowledge Test. (Unlimited number of practice tests).
• Experienced pilots may attend the sessions of their choice as an excellent refresher. • Rusty pilots will find this training a great way to get back in the game.

Visit our Facebook Page for additional information

Oshkosh 2018

A GOOD CAUSE

EVENTS

Aug 22 is the 16th Annual Thunder Over The Boardwalk, will feature an international flavor with the Canadian Snowbirds joining the U.S.A.F. Thunderbirds, U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team and GEICO Skytypers!  Practice Day is on Tuesday, August 21 from approximately 11 am to 3 pm.   Checkout the Thunder Over the Boardwalk Weblink.

Sept 8^th Wings and Wheels event at Wings Field.  If you would like to delay your aircraft or your car at this event, please visit their website at http://angelflighteast.org/media-center/events/   We also have an application form for the Angel Flight East Group that we can forward to only who is interested.

October 6-7 is the date of the Flying W Airport’s Airshow for 2018. To learn more or to purchase tickets, please visit the Flying W Airport’s Airshow Link.  Tickets can be purchase from the Flying W Airport

APPS

WeatherSpork

The strategic all-purpose weather planning app for aviators at all experience levels. WeatherSpork offers an inexpensive, mission-oriented and multi-faceted approach to uniquely blend online weather guidance along with aviation weather education. It is beautifully implemented whether you are using the applications on your laptop, desktop or portable devices.

National General Aviation Flight Information Data Base

Replay your own flights and review your flight data to identify safety risks.

Pilots in safety programs are less likely to be involved in an accidents

The data collected can give you enhanced feedback to improve your skies.

Visit http://www.ngafid.org  and download you the App from Apple Store or Google Play

Airmate

A Free Social Flight Planning and Navigation App.  Plan, Fly, Share

A worldwide aviation data base, free airport plates, graphical entry of your route, weather, notams, and more.  Learn more at http://www.airmate.aero

A little bit of Oshkosh 2018!

The Mooney Parade

The DC 3’s Flying at Oshkosh 2018

Instructor Openings

We are a part 61 flight school and flying club based at the Flying W Airport in Medford, NJ.  We are a privately owned business providing flight instruction, aircraft rental, pilot shop sales, aircraft maintenance and repair services. We offer a friendly, relax atmosphere at a non-controlled field and an airport with some great activity. Our flight instructor staff have a variety of experiences, work well together, and share their knowledge and passion of aviation with each other, including their students.

CFI Requirements

• Minimum of a CFI Certificate, CFII preferred.
• Full or Part Time Availability
• We welcome anyone with the skills to teach of flight, to fly safely, and a desire to provide us feedback.
• Our team includes our independent flight instructors, our aircraft maintenance crew, and our office management group.

Resume Required

• Please provide:

• • Total Time and Type brake down
  • Previous Work Experience
  • Education
  • Certificates
  • Short summary about yourself

This is a great opportunity for someone who loves to share their passion of aviation with others and willing to work as an independent flight instructor.

Our job invitation goes out to retired personal looking for some extra income, a relative new CFI or CFII interest in building time for the airlines, or just the pilot who teaches due to their passion. Our flight school offers nine training aircraft for rent.

Send us a Resume or Contact Us, Click HERE.

“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”

Ruth E. Renkel

Father’s Day – June 17^th

A day to say thank you to our special men in our lives.

Give Dad, Grandpa or another special man in your life the thrill of a flying lesson as a Father’s Day gift. Whether your Dad, or that special man in your life has always dreamed of flying or is already a licensed pilot, Freeflight Flight is ready to help you give him a one-of-a-kind Father’s Day experience. For additional information, please contact us HERE.

Flying West to East

Brian Robbins, on our Freeflight Aviation’s flight instructor and the father of two children, had the opportunity to ferry a Cessna 210 back from the west coast. Here are a few photographs taken during his flight back home to New Jersey.

The Hoover Dam while communicating with Las Vegas Approach

The Grand Canyon – Zuni Corridor heading North

Monument Valley

Mojave Desert

Brian with his oxygen at high altitude.

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula    

The Enigma of Aircraft Lights

Gene Wentzel, ATP, CFII

It is 12 noon, the 25 hour student pilot and I have just cleared the runway and they are completing the after landing checklist. They are at the part that says, “Lights ……As Required”.

I know what’s coming…I see them read it…they hesitate…I see the cognitive wheels revolving as they noodle through this seemingly innocuous declaration. They bring their tentative finger slowly over to the landing light switch; it hovers over the control for what seems an eternity. It’s almost as if they feel making the wrong choice will advance the Hobbs meter by 0.5. They next look at me confused and inquire, “Should I turn the landing light off?”

I always give them the answer and provide a rationale for why they should be turned off or left on. They will be even more confused if strobes are involved. The cruise checklist (which, by the way, doesn’t even mention strobes) simply states, “Landing and Taxi Lights…..Off” and will cause the student to reach over and reflexively turn off both the landing light and the strobes!

I reviewed this issue with another flight instructor. I asked him if he has the same situation come up, and if so, what he does about it. He explained, “I just ask them to answer 2 questions:

1. Do you need the lights to see?
2. Or
3. Do you need the lights to be seen?”

These are easy and logical questions and I have been utilizing this approach when training my students, but with varying results. Therefore, let’s go over how we should utilize the lighting systems of our aircraft and why.

Aircraft certificated with an electrical system and have installed lighting systems typically include all or some the following:

• Position lights (aka navigation or nav lights)
• Primary Anti-collision light (usually the beacon)
• Landing / Taxi lights
• Strobes (usually supplementary anti-collision lighting)

Some of these lights and their use are regulated by the FAA; others systems are operated by either common sense or personal preference. Ok, let’s get started…

1. Position lights: these are required by regulation to be used while operating on the ground or in the air after sunset and left on until engine shutdown or up to sunrise. Therefore, during the day they are OFF.
2. Primary Anti-collision light, such as the beacon, are required to be used during all types of operations (day or night). If the master switch is on, so is the beacon. Closer to the truth, the beacon light switch is ON, period! End of story! Barring a small beacon electrical fire, DON’T TOUCH IT! Personally, the beacon shouldn’t even have a switch; it should only have a circuit breaker that can be pulled, but I digress.
3. Landing / Taxi lights: This is where there is some confusion and personal preference.
   1. First, if an aircraft has both a landing and taxi light, consider them one light and one switch. They are either both on or they are both off. There is rarely a need to have one on and the other off.
   2. My advice is that EVERY take-off and EVERY landing has both landing and taxi lights on (day or night). At night we need them TO SEE and TO BE SEEN and during the day we need them TO BE SEEN.
   3. After landing, if it is daytime, turn them off. We don’t need them TO SEE and we don’t need them TO BE SEEN.
   4. After landing, if it is nighttime, leave them on. We need them TO SEE and we need them TO BE SEEN. Turn them off ONLY if they might cause a distraction to another pilot, especially if they are taking-off or landing.
   5. There is a regulation to have a landing light, but that is only for aircraft utilized at night for commercial operations.
   6. In cruise flight there is some personal preference that can be afforded.
      1. Some pilots always turn them off and others leave them on.
      2. There is a recommendation from the FAA to leave landing lights on below 10,000 feet, but this does not appear to be universally adopted or practiced in general aviation.
      3. Since the advent of LED lighting many pilots choose to just leave them on (day or night). These lights use less power, produces less heat, provides more light, and they last for 10’s of thousands of hours, so the attitude is, “What the heck, just leave them on TO BE SEEN.”
4. Strobes:
   1. Strobes are another form of anti-collision light and usually supplementary to a beacon.
   2. They should be turned on prior to entering a runway for any reason and left on until completely clear of a runway TO BE SEEN, day or night.
   3. They should be turned on prior to take-off TO BE SEEN.
   4. They should be left on in cruise flight TO BE SEEN…
      1. …but, they should be turned off in flight if determined by the PIC that they constitute a hazard to safety due to adverse meteorological conditions. (14 CFR Section 91.209).
   5. They should be turned off after landing and clear of the runway so not to distract other pilots or ground personnel.

I hope this helps illuminate the uses of aircraft lighting in the different phases of ground and air operations. If you have any questions, discuss it with any flight instructor.

Gene Wentzel, ATP, CFII

Private Private Ground School by Bob McCabe

Start Date will be April 14th at 6 PM

There may be one or two spots open, but space is now limited.

IF still interested, please on contact us HERE!

Instrument Ground School by Bob McCabe

Wednesday Evenings for 14 Weeks
Date to be determined when we get enough students.

Class Location:

Freeflight Aviation
Flying W Airport
60 Fostertown Rd
Medford, NJ 08055

Price: $339 for the complete course or $40 per session…
(Textbooks and pilot supplies sold separately)
• Comprehensive ground school covering all aeronautical knowledge required for the Instrument Pilot Rating
• At course completion, students who pass a sample test will receive an endorsement to take the FAA Knowledge Test. (Unlimited number of practice tests).
• Experienced pilots may attend the sessions of their choice as an excellent refresher. • Rusty pilots will find this training a great way to get back in the game.
• To enroll or request additional information, contact the instructor Bob McCabe at 856912-5329 or Freeflight Aviation at 609-265-0399. Or Send us an Email from our contact page.
• Please provide Proof of Citizenship (current passport or birth certificate with raised seal) to Freeflight Aviation prior to attending classes.

About the Instructor:
Bob McCabe is a certificated flight instructor, advanced ground instructor and instrument flight and ground instructor with more than 3600 hours flight time and 25 years of teaching experience. He is a former flight school owner, corporate instructor, and adjunct college professor. He holds the rank of Colonel in the Civil Air Patrol and has served as New Jersey Wing Commander, mission pilot, instructor pilot, check pilot and cadet orientation pilot. Bob is a volunteer FAA Safety Counselor for the Philadelphia Flight Standards District and has presented seminars on a wide range of safety related topics. He is a nationally recognized public speaker and author. In 2014, Bob received the General Aviation Certificated Flight Instructor of the Year Award representing the FAA’s Eastern Region. In 2015, he received the General Aviation Certificated Flight Instructor of the Year Award representing the Philadelphia Flight Standards District.

Comments from former students:
“Best explanation of aerodynamics I’ve ever had”

“Great experience! Helped me build confidence” “Exceeded my expectations”

“The open exchange of ideas, knowledge and experience of someone who’s been there were a great benefit”

“After many, many years of classroom and practical instruction I can state unequivocally that Bob McCabe is the best teacher I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing I had ground school training from Bob which was clear, concise, entertaining and informative. Absolutely the BEST!”

Job Offering For a Certificated Flight Instructor

We are a part 61 flight school and flying club based at the Flying W Airport in Medford, NJ We are a privately owned business providing flight instruction, aircraft rental, pilot shop sales, aircraft maintenance and repair services. We offer a friendly, relax atmosphere at a non-controlled field and an airport with some great activity. Our flight instructor staff have a variety of experiences, work well together, and share their knowledge and passion of aviation with each other, including their students.

CFI Requirements

Minimum of a CFI Certificate, CFII preferred.

Full or Part Time Availability

We welcome anyone with the skills to teach of flight, to fly safely, and a desire to provide us feedback.

Our team includes our independent flight instructors, our aircraft maintenance crew, and our office management group.

Resume Required

Please provide:

• • Contact Information
  • Total Time and Type brake down
  • Previous Work Experience
  • Education
  • Certificates
  • Short summary about yourself

This is a great opportunity for someone who loves to share their passion of aviation with others and willing to work as an independent flight instructor.

Our job invitation goes out to retired personal looking for some extra income, a relative new CFI or CFII interest in building time for the airlines, or just the pilot who teaches due to their passion. Our flight school offers nine training aircraft for rent.

Want to send us a Resume or Contact Us, Click HERE.

Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle…. which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its way and cannot be withstood by any human power, because itself is divine power. If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation would there be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!… We are like children who are astonished and delighted only by the second-hand of the clock, not by the hour-hand. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849

Spring Goals

As the spring is approaching, learning to fly or adding a new certificate is will be on our students’ horizon.

We will be offering a Private Pilot Training Class on Monday evenings starting on March 12th for 14 weeks.

We will also be offering an Instrument Pilot Training Class on Wednesday evenings starting on March 14th for 14 weeks.

We are attaching our flyers for the upcoming courses.  If you are interested on taking either class, we request you fill out our registration form which can be found HERE.

Private Pilot Course Starts Monday April 16th

(Please note the date has change.  Flyer below is no longer correct date)

Instrument Training Course pending start date…

**Date being changed to Late – April or May, call for more infor

If you would like additional information on either course, please send us an email and we would be happy to send you a full course syllabus.

Job Offering For a Certificated Flight Instructor

We are a part 61 flight school and flying club based at the Flying W Airport in Medford, NJ We are a privately owned business providing flight instruction, aircraft rental, pilot shop sales, aircraft maintenance and repair services. We offer a friendly, relax atmosphere at a non-controlled field and an airport with some great activity. Our flight instructor staff have a variety of experiences, work well together, and share their knowledge and passion of aviation with each other, including their students.

CFI Requirements

Minimum of a CFI Certificate, CFII preferred.

Full or Part Time Availability

We welcome anyone with the skills to teach of flight, to fly safely, and a desire to provide us feedback.

Our team includes our independent flight instructors, our aircraft maintenance crew, and our office management group.

Resume Required

Please provide:

• • Contact Information
  • Total Time and Type brake down
  • Previous Work Experience
  • Education
  • Certificates
  • Short summary about yourself

This is a great opportunity for someone who loves to share their passion of aviation with others and willing to work as an independent flight instructor.

Our job invitation goes out to retired personal looking for some extra income, a relative new CFI or CFII interest in building time for the airlines, or just the pilot who teaches due to their passion. Our flight school offers nine training aircraft for rent.

Want to send us a Resume or Contact Us, Click HERE.

“Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.”
― Richard Bach

Finding your Heart in Aviation

The passion for flight may have been with you always but the doors to this passion may not be fully open. One must have a personal experience to open the wings to your flight passion. We suggest an Introductory Discovery Flight.

The Discovery Flight is a hand’s on flight experiences. Our FAA Certificated Flight Instructor will teach you some basic principles about flight prior to departing on your first flight in the aircraft. You will get a chance to learn about starting the aircraft, taxing the aircraft to the runway of departure, the departing procedures, and a chance to manage the controls of the aircraft, all under the control of one of our Flight Instructors.

What to Expect During a Discovery Flight, check it out HERE!

Are you ready to take your Discovery Flight yet?

Just give us a call our purchase a Gift Certificate HERE for someone you Love!

A short story

A Passion for Flying by Nicholas A. Eastman, click HERE

Just search the phase and you will find more stories on the Passion of Flying.

Where do I really start after My Discovery Flight?

Recreational or Private Pilot Certificate – This is where you start!!

With a private pilot certificate you will have the freedom to fly wherever you want, day or night once you get your Private Pilot Certificate!!

The recreational pilot certificate imposes many flight restrictions on the pilot. With several more hours of flight training you can have your private certificate and more freedom to fly.

Both certificates are considered “VFR” or flight under visual flight restrictions or “no flying in the clouds”

Instrument Airplane Rating – Become a better pilot!!

Not every pilot needs an instrument rating, but this rating will built your flying skill, your confidence, and allow you take flight into the clouds, something your private pilot certificate will not allow. This will also provide you the necessary skills to make it safely to your destination if weather conditions worsen.

Commercial Pilot Certificate – Get paid to fly!!

A Commercial Pilot Certificate is required for anyone that wants a career as a pilot. The commercial pilot certificate will allow you to get paid to fly!

Whether your goal is become a flight instructor to teach others or take flight to the sky with an airline, this rating is one more step in the right direction towards your career or hobby.

The commercial pilot certificate will also increase your skills as a pilot until you master a number of advanced maneuvers and can handle more complex aircraft, an aircraft with a controllable pitched propeller and retractable gear. We use the piper arrow, N79VM for part of this training.

Flight Instructor Course – To teach the joy the flying!!

After you’ve earn your commercial pilot certificate, you may start training to become a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI).

If you are thinking about an airline career, the airlines favor pilots who have built their time instructing other pilots. The CFI certificate has given the pilot the understanding, skills, and patience needed on teaching others, an important aspect in regards to the aviation industry.

Multi-Engine and Multi-Engine Flight Instructor Course – Adding to your flight skills!!

The Multi-Engine and Multi-Engine CFI will again increase your skills as a pilot and teach you co-pit management of operation more than one engine.

At this time Freeflight does not offer these choices but can direct you to a facility that does provide these training services.

Notable Accomplishments

Congratulations to our students.

Ian’s student, Samantha completed her solo course country to Georgetown, DE.

Ian’s student, John completed his solo.

Tony’s student, George completed his solo.

Josh’s student Jacob completed his solo.

“We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.” ― Ellen Goodman

Start your career in aviation.

Freeflight Aviation is offering a Private Pilot Training class, called ground school for students interested in starting their private pilot career in Aviation. This class will help you pass your written test for the Private Pilot rating. We recommend taking flight instruction during this training class because this can often help you understand the training material in the class much better. Our training class starts on February 6^th, will be for 10 weeks on Tuesday evenings from 6 PM to 10 PM. During the training you will have a chance to visit our aircraft maintenance facility and learn more about the aircraft you will or are flying. To register, please give us a call or learn more on our Facebook Page, HERE.

Meetup with Freeflight Aviation

If you are interested in learning more about what is happening with Freeflight, we recommend joining our Freeflight Aviation Meetup Group. We post several events, including safety seminars, dinner gatherings, flyouts and more. Sign up today and keep in touch with us HERE.

Calling All Local Aircraft Mechanics

Don’t miss the upcoming 16th Annual First State Chapter PAMA / Dassault Aircraft Services Maintenance Symposium & IA Renewal February 24, 2018 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Newark Delaware. Learn more about this upcoming event at the PAMA webpage http://firststatepama.com/Symposiuminfo.html

In the News

DA40 NG: Fly for Under 20 Cents a Mile!

LifeStyle Aviation has launched the Diamond DA40 NG, Jet A burning piston, to the North American Market. LifeStyle is highlighting the ultra economy of the aircraft and the advantages of buying aircraft that burn Jet A versus leaded aviation gasoline which is on its way out.

Mayo Clinic Launches BasicMed Course

“We’re pleased to be able to provide this new option for pilots,” said Clayton Cowl, director of the Mayo Clinic BasicMed Course. “This course has been a culmination of efforts of many colleagues at Mayo dedicated to aviation safety. A wide range of medical experts across the organization as well as with input from experts with civil aviation medical associations across the country have contributed medical knowledge to help pilots recognize medical risks in an effort to keep them, and the passengers who they fly, safe.” Learn more at the Mayo Clinic BasicMed Page: https://basicmed.mayo.edu/

Where to Fly in 2018

Food, Events, Fly-Ins

One of our students presently working on his private pilot rating was wondering where to fly once he got his rating. Here are a few suggests for Aviation Event Links. Know a good website, please send us an email so we can add the link.

Fly to Lunch

Fun Places to Fly

Social Flight

$100 Dollar Hamburger

EAA Calendar of Events

AOPA Community

During the holiday season, it’s easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can’t think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work. Kate Klise

Buy A Gift Certificate Here

For The Little Ones

Simple gifts that are free or don’t cost a lot are always great gifts for the young ones in the family.

Make up a coloring book from free drawings on the web, add some colored markers or crayons and you are on your way with a colorful gift that will entertain your children.

Involve Mom, Dad, or an older child in building a simple aircraft using a clothes pin with a younger child.

Just a couple ideas for children of many ideas on the internet.

Thinking about becoming a pilot.

We suggest an Introductory Discovery Flight if someone in the family is interest in becoming a pilot or who is interested in experiencing flight.  Give us a call to learn more.

Ready to start flight training.

Many books and Private Pilot Kits are available for a Private Pilot starting their flight training along with other pilot supplies. To get started, our flight instructors often recommend the Airplane Flying Handbook published from the FAA. Freeflight also sells the Complete Private Pilot Kit publishing by ASA. This kit contains many of the necessary items that are be needed for a student’s flight training, including a logbook, an E6B flight computer, a plotter, the test questions, and a FAR-AIM. Freeflight offers Gift Certificates for some of these items online HERE.

You can also purchase each of the items from the kit, individually, if you are on a limited budget. Other inexpensive supplies include flashlights, fuel testers, a multi tool that includes a screw driver, plexiglass cleaner, and micro fiber cleaning cloths.

Additional Pilot Items

Aviation Headsets makes another great gift, but I suggest some dream gift discussing with a pilot on this subject. Headsets come in all makes and models, cost, and prices. There are inexpensive headsets, such as the ASA model HS- 1A to the David Clark H10-13S median-priced headset, to the noise canceling headsets such as the Lightspeed Headsets.

Handheld radios from Icom or Yaesu

A small I-Pad with a Foreflight – An Electronic Flight Bag Subscription or an aircraft yoke support for the aircraft.

Magazine Subscriptions to AOPA – Aircraft Owner and Pilot Association, EAA – Experiment Association Membership, Air and Space Museum Magazine

Private Pilot Training Class or Instrument Pilot Training Class offering. Freeflight presently has a Private Pilot Training Class schedule to start Feb 6^th, 2018. Other classes will be available in the future.

Just for Fun

A friend of ours just started a Drone Company call Buzz My Property. This company will take a video of your property. What a great gift for someone in your family for the holidays. Buzz My Property also has a Facebook Page and Listed on Instagram. Be the first in your neighborhood to show off an aerial view of your home.

Biggest Flight Journey of ALL: Santa and NORAD

For over 60 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa’s flight. Follow Santa as he makes his magical journey!

Happy Holidays!

I love holidays. It’s such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to worry about schedules and that kind of thing. Toni Collette

The Patti Wagon Café at the Flying W Airport will have it’s annual Holiday Gathering on Friday Dec 1st starting at 6:30 PM.

All local Pilots and Friends of the airport are invited.

Patti and the Flying W Airport have decorated the facility for the Holiday Season. The restaurant windows are painted with wearths, snowman, and a flying Santa.

We hope to see you on Friday December the 1st. It will be a nice way to start the monthly holiday season off with airport friends and family.