Short Final: Horizontal Or Vertical
My home airport is KAPA, which used to be Arapahoe County Airport but is now Centennial Airport in the south metropolitan area...
Short Final: Left Or Right
I was returning to Denver from some mountain and canyon flying in Idaho one busy Friday afternoon in July, headed towards my...
Short Final: Re-Entry
On one flight, with only a crew of three (no passengers) onboard the Global Express and light on fuel, I requested a...
Short Final: Progressive Instructions
In the summer of 1970, at the ripe old age of 16, with a total of 27 hours (13 solo), I convinced...
Short Final: Expedite
About 25 years ago, I was working 'ramp' for a local airshow. Three Warbirds called the Tower upon their arrival. Number one...
Short Final: For Your Viewing Pleasure
I overheard this exchange with the local TRACON, NorCal Approach, while flying along California’s central valley:
NorCal Approach: Cessna...
Short Final: Texas Weather
There are many stories about the horrible freeze we had in Texas this year, but I think this one of the funniest....
Short Final: Umpire
We were flying into Watsonville, a non‑towered airport on California's Monterey Bay coast recently, on an unexpectedly clear summer evening. When we...
Short Final: Alien Intercept
During the peak of last summer’s pandemic there was not a lot of air traffic or radio traffic with commercial travel being...
Short Final: Alphabet Soup
Pre-pandemic, a group of Windsor Flying Club members based at CYQG made an annual excursion to the Bahama Islands from Canada. Our...
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Best Of The Web: Real World Engine Failure And Turnback
From the One-More-Time-But-With-Pictures file comes this week’s Best of the Web video. It was posted by Cessna Centurion owner Edward Frye earlier...