Short Final: Skydiving All Day
I was flying along, monitoring CTAFs and heard the following: “Penn Ridge, Penn Ridge, use caution. Use caution. Multiple parachutes in the air near Penn...
Short Final: A Beech By Any Other Name
When my girls were young, we planned a trip to visit an old high school friend of my wife's who lived near the beach...
Short Final: U.S. Army Ale Force
As the World War II story goes … at an advance American fighter base during the North African offensive, mechanics fixed up a left-behind...
Short Final: Whisky Golf
Several years ago, I offered to take my young adult son and two of his friends in my Cirrus and drop them off at...
Short Final: Flight Following
Several years ago, not long after earning my private pilot certificate, I departed the Burlington/Alamance Regional Airport, North Carolina, where I was based. My...
Short Final: Break Out
One day I landed at Snohomish County Airport (Paine Field), Washington, after doing some practice approaches in nice actual benign IMC. After I had...
Short Final: Best In The Area
One day while doing an Angel Flight between Santa Monica Airport and Prescott Regional Airport, I heard the following on center frequency: Aircraft checking in:...
Short Final: Request
When traffic was diminished initially in the pandemic, it sure seemed different flying into New York airspace, with far fewer airplanes and fewer grumpy...
Short Final: Invasion
As a CFI, I recently had the opportunity to attend a Mooney Pilot Proficiency Program at KSMX, Santa Maria airport, up the coast from...
Short Final: O Romeo, Tango Romeo
My friend had just completed his Pulsar XP kit, flew off the required hours, got it signed off, and asked me if we could...