Spring Flying around NJ

“Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.” —Gustav Mahler

A Note from our instructor Paul King

I am doing a CFI stall / spin refresh session with Jason Flood.  I have also asked a few of my students if they would be interested in an abbreviated version that Jason does for student, private and commercial pilots.

We’ve put together a FLYER describing the training.  If you are interested, please contact Jason directly by email early in April 2019.

If you’ve never done this training before, I can assure you that it will change the way you think about flying.  And, as Jason put it, “It could save your life.”

Thank you, 

Paul A. King

Take A Tour

2019 East Coast Hurricane Awareness Tour at Harrisburg International Airport – May 7th. Interact with the pilots, forecaster, local meteorologists, and others involved in hurricane preparedness.

Take A Trip to Rhinebeck Aerodrome where you can still see World War I airplanes flying.

Visit this CNN Travel Page Link to learn more about Rhinebeck Aerodrome.

A place to fly or drive. If flying, we recommend flying into Kingston-Ulster N20, NY Airport. A car ride from Kingston to Rhinebeck is about 15 minutes.

Private Pilot Ground School by Instructor Bob McCabe

Class Starting Date – TUESDAY MAY 21ST: 6 pm – 9:30 pm

A comprehensive ground school covering all aeronautical knowledge required for the Private 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 please see our link below, give us a call, or send us an email.

More about Mr McCabe’s PPL Ground School on our Facebook Page

Click HERE for Bob McCabe’s Ground School Flyer.

Local Upcoming Events

Medford Living & Neighborhood sponsors presents Wings & Wheels III

Join us for a Neighbors’ Night Out event for the entire family.

Wings and Wheels III at the Flying W Airport and Resort.

Thursday, May 16, 6-9 pm.

R.S.V.P: Email: joe.vianna@n2pub.com or call 917-334-7391

All proceeds from this Medford Living neighborhood residents will go to benefit the Medford Youth Athletic Association – MYAA h

Aerospace Camp for Kids 2019

Discovery the Flying W Airport hidden in lovely Medford NJ.  This location is once again offering the exclusive, fun, hands on aerospace camp for any girl or boy 7-12 years old can participate. Two sessions will be offered: July 29-August 2 and August 5 – August 9.

To learn more, visit the AEROSPACE CAMP webpage: http://www.aerospace4kids.com or download their application HERE.

FAA Charts

Since the Flying W Airport and the South Jersey Regional Airport are no longer supplying paper charts, we at Freeflight will be carrying a few local charts and the local airport facility directory.

Freeflight plans on sending out an email prior to renewing our supply to customers interesting in ordering charts along with our order.  If you are interested in having us preorder charts for you, please send us an email by visiting our contact page.

To find out the Dates of latest Editions – (DOLEs) Charts visit the FAA Website.

Discovery Flight Packages for You!

If you are interested in taking a Discovery Flight with us, just give us a call or send us an email.

You can learn more about our Discovery Flight Packages by clicking HERE.

“March bustles in on windy feet
And sweeps my doorstep and my street.
She washes and cleans with pounding rains,
Scrubbing the earth of winter stains.
She shakes the grime from carpet green
Till naught but fresh new blades are seen.
Then, house in order, all neat as a pin,
She ushers gentle springtime in.”
–  Susan Reiner, Spring Cleaning 

The Winds

The position of our jet stream and the angle of the sun have a lot effect on our winds.

During the winter season, the jet stream is way down south, but as spring arrives, the jet spring begins to move north.

The lifting jet stream and the increased sunny weather can cause increased atmospheric instability. The mixing of the cold and warmer air brings stronger winds. These fluctuations in the temperature can make one day feel like summer and the next day feel like winter.

Why the Spring season is so windy.

Created by the National Weather Service in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Wind Strategies For Flying

Tips for handling blustery breezes from AOPA.

Combating Crosswinds from Plane and Pilot Magazine

Learn to love the wind from Sporty’s Student Pilot News.

Spring Stormy Weather

Thunderstorms are another major flying hazard in the spring. Dangerous thunderstorms can bring lightning, tornadoes, and flooding. When warm, moist air collides with cool, dry air, thunderstorms can occur. The three main ingredients: unstable air, an initial updraft, and high moisture content in the air can be the prefect mixture of a dangerous thunderstorm.

Thunderstorms and the ATC

Learn More

Severe Weather 101 – Thunderstorms Basics from the National Severe Storm Laboratory.

Thunderstorms: Managing the Risk from Plane and Pilot Magazine.

The Need to Divert

Taking Flight

Flight Training is our Passion. Managing the risks of flying is part of the training involved in learning to fly. One on the main reasons the aviation industry has such as good safety record. Always have a questioning attitude and be willing to learn more about your aircraft, about weather, about your avionics, and about airspace.

Come take flight with us.

Interested in purchasing or learning more about our Introductory Discovery Flight Package, Click HERE!

One of our newest private pilots, Mark!

“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller, Philologist

They’re Dreaming to fly!

Does your love one have a passion to take flight. This may be just the right Valentine’s gift for them.

To learn more about our Gift Certificates, please visit our Gift Certificate Link HERE

A little Chocolate for your Pilot?

Checkout the Chocolate Vault for a variety of aircraft for that special pilot in your life.

Recommended Readings

Maintaining control of an airplane while it’s on its wheels becomes a lot easier once you understand it’s a really lousy ground vehicle. Click HERE to Read this Article.

By Joseph E. (Jeb) Burnsideh

How To Land An Airplane On The Freeway

With Style And Grace (And Survive)

From AvWeb: Lately, there seems to have been a rash of airplanes landing on highways. What’s going on? In this AVweb video, Paul Bertorelli explains how to land an airplane on a highway in an emergency.

Tips on Winter Flying.

Click HERE for a link to an article on winter flying from AOPA

Congratulations to our Students

Student accomplishments since November 2018.

• Instructor Tony’s student Mark on his private pilot rating.
• Instructor Tony’s student Austin one his solo flight
• Instructor Tony’s student Matt on his instrument rating
• Instructor Bob’s student, Trisha on her solo flight
• Instructor Josh’s student, David on his commercial rating.
• Instructor Josh’s student, Jake Todd on his private pilot rating.
• Instructor Josh on getting his Multi Engine rating.
• Instructor Josh student Ashwin on getting his private pilot rating
• Student Christian Lassen on getting his Multi Engine rating
• Instructor Bob B’s student James on his solo flight
• Instructor Shannon’s student Greg on his solo flight
• Instructor Bryan’s student Matthew on his solo flight
• Student Matthew recent is a recent owner of a Mooney Aircraft.
• If we missed anyone, please let us know. 

Take Flight in our Simulator

Several of our flight instructors are now available to provide training on our Elite Simulator. 

Our Simulator is available to rent by Freeflight Aviation flight school members and not flight school members.  Non-members will be required to fill out a form and provide personal documents and citizenship. 

Cost is $25.00 per hour plus tax.  Instructor time on the SIM and Ground Time on the sim is an added cost. 

Jason Soroski — ‘There is nothing magical about the flip of the calendar, but it represents a clean break, a new hope, and a blank canvas.’

New Year Aviation Resolutions 2019

Sweepstakes pays you to be a safer pilot

Working to reverse that trend is Paul Burger, a retired successful businessman and pilot, who founded the WINGS Industry Advisory Committee, a coalition of industry representatives, government officials, and individuals dedicated to increasing participation in the FAA’s WINGS Pilot Proficiency Program.

Fly the Elite Simulator at Freeflight

Tired of the bad weather, make an appointment with one of our flight instructors to take flight in our Elite Simulator.  The Simulator is only $25.00 per hour plus instructor cost and it’s a great way to get to know your radios or to stay instrument current.

Start your Flight Training

Sign up to learn to fly at a flight school.  If could be Freeflight Aviation or some other local flight school near you.  Just search “flight training schools near me” and see your choices. Give them a call ask for information, ask questions, go take a Discovery Flight.Take a Private Pilot Ground School or other training classroom training. Meet student with similar interest, learn together, study together, fly together.

Freeflight Aviation will be offering a PRIVATE PILOT GROUND SCHOOL taught by Shannon Wea starting January 29, 2019. More information please visit our Freeflight Aviation Facebook Page.

Freeflight Aviation will be offering an INSTRUMENT GROUND SCHOOL taught by Bob McCabe starting February 27, 2019. More information please visit our Freeflight Aviation Facebook Page.

Stay Warm

Order a Freeflight Aviation Sweatshirt by Friday Jan 10th. For our order sheet please send us an email, download our order form or visit our pilot shop page. You can also give our office a call to place an order.

Just Go Fly

Join a Facebook Group such as East Coast Private Pilot Group or
Sign up on Social Flight for emails on upcoming events.
Attend an AOPA fly-in in Frederick Maryland this year. Take yourself, spouse or friend out to lunch to the Apron Cafe at Hammonton Airport or the Sky Cafe at Sky Manor Airport. Have a place you love to fly, please share it with use. You’ve earned your license, now use it and Go Fly!

Get a new rating.

Whether you work on your instrument rating, visit Jason Flood for some upset recovery training, or get a tail wheel endorsement from Jim, this keeps you in the air, flying and current.

Best of All
Just have FUN!

“The things we share with each other are deeply felt from within our hearts that neither of us will ever forget. For the gifts that are priceless are the ones that are heartfelt; their roots are within our soul. They are the greatest gifts, of all.”
― Ellen J. Barrier

Holiday Gift Certificates for the would be pilot!

Full Time Flight Instructor Opening

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, works well together, and share their knowledge and passion of aviation with each other, including their students.

 Resume Required

Please provide:

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

We expect the spring season to get busy and it is almost around the corner.

Send us a Resume or Contact Us, Click HERE.

Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.

2 Corinthians 9:10-11

A simple gift can transform a life’s soul

Richard Bach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull.

Richard Bach, an American Writer of several books, is well known for his book Jonathan Livingston Seagull .  His story is about a young seagull learning about life, flying, and passion.  Jonathan Livingston Seagull  was named after John H. Livingston, a Waco test pilot who died of a heart attack at 76 while test flying an acrobatic home-built Pitts Special.  Richard Bach gratitude of flight has been given in the stories he has written.

Give the Gift of Flight this Holiday Season.

We offer 1/2 hour and 1 hour Discovery Flight Gift Certificate Packages for any time of the year!

To Learn more or to purchase online go the our Discovery Flight Page.

UPCOMING

Private Pilot Ground School for Primary and Potential Students

Tentative Start Date will be Tuesday Jan 29, 2019

Class size is limited to 10 people.

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 tentatively start Tuesday Jan 29, 2019 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 maintenance shop. This class will be taught by Flight Instructor Shannon Wea.

Price is only $270.00. (Training books not included…)

To Sign up or learn more, please contact us.

Interested Reads

The Richard Collins Writing Prize For Young Pilots
Call for Entries: The Richard Collins Writing Prize for Young Pilots
$2,500 award for a pilot up to age 24
https://goo.gl/vyzpAq

Best Weather Tool online from AOPA.
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2018/october/30/the-best-weather-tool-youve-never-heard-of?utm_source=ebrief&utm_medium=email

Why You’re More Likely To Have An Engine Fire This Fall
https://goo.gl/mMS2h2

Upcoming Events

Nov 13 (other future events are available)

NYC Drone Lesson w/ a Certified Pilot

Nov 17-18
EAA Sport Pilot Workshop in Phila., PA
You can build your own airplane.

Dec 1
Tangier Island 50th Annual Holly Run
Registration now Open
December 1, 2018 rain/snow date December 8, 2018

Dec 2
Massey Open Hangar Party & Fly-In
11 AM to 3 PM.

Dec 8
Breakfast with Santa at New Garden Flying Field. Fox Fire (Stone Barn) will be catering this fabulous breakfast. Call the airport today to make your reservation, 610-268-2619. Limited seating available.

Dec 24
For the 43rd year Princeton Airport will host it’s annual Santa Fly-In.  This year’s event will be on Monday, December 24th at 11:00 am.  Santa will fly into the airport with gifts for area children.

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.