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...
Short Final: Southbound
With the easing of pandemic travel restrictions commercial flights have increased, seemingly often with crews not necessarily familiar with local procedures. Case...
Short Final: One‑Cat Approach
We were flying in our Cessna Cardinal RG from Poughkeepsie, NY, to Norwood, MA. On board were my wife, me, and our...
Short Final: Niner-Niner
Scanner chatter heard near Wisconsin Dells:
“Madison Approach, Cirrus one-niner-niner-Echo-Echo checking in at 5,000.”
Short Final: Breakfast Break
Early on a quiet morning, as I was taxiing, a rather over‑eager student pilot called ground control. A young voice, with textbook...
Short Final: Oshkosh Short
Many moons ago I was flying into Denver's Centennial airport when tower asked me if I could make a short approach. As...
Short Final: Other Than That…
I was driving to my hangar at Manchester Airport one really nasty, windy and turbulent day. I had no plans to actually...
Short Final: IFR Checkride
I rarely clog the radio frequency with unimportant chatter, but this was a very special day. It was March 19, 2015, when...
Short Final: Dress Code
I recently heard the following on the air.
N1234: “Wilkes‑Barre approach, November 1234 is canceling flight following.”
Short Final: POTUS TFR
In 2004, I was flying to Tampa Exec when George W. had a POTUS TFR centered at nearby Tampa International. The TFR...
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KITPLANES’ Video: SubSonex Jet Flight
The word "accessible" and "jet aircraft" don't belong in the same sentence, but the SubSonex mini-jet probably comes closest to the idea....