Short Final: Flight Following
I was flying with a student in SoCal. Before taxi, she got an appropriate VFR clearance as required per ATIS...
Short Final: Visibility Good
On a particularly clear day I was practicing commercial maneuvers west of Sioux Falls when I heard a King Air check in with Approach...
Short Final: Jumpers Away
While flying on a pleasant Sunday afternoon near Northwest Missouri, I heard the following on a local Unicom frequency...
Short Final: Job Well Done
About a year ago I was training a student pilot. The college student was very intense and strived to be perfect at all her training....
Short Final: Florida Geography
My brother, J.R., and I have made a number of flights to the Bahamas in one of our two airplanes. Once we had a crowd, so we took both airplanes...
Short Final: Mistaken Identity
I was flying south over a water route just off the East Coast nearing Washington, D.C., when a Baron called ATC and this was the exchange...
Short Final: Mach 3
A few days ago, departing Minot North Dakota for Duluth in a Skylane, I asked ATC if the NOTAM for military training at Duluth had the airport closed, or whether it was open to GA traffic...
Short Final: That Can’t Be Right
Eastbound through Chicago OHares Class Bravo, we were on frequency with a controller rattling off instructions to several airplanes in rapid fire...
Short Final: Concorde Criticism
About 30 years ago I had a business trip to London and took the BOAC Concorde from Washington Dulles International Airport to London Heathrow Airport...
Short Final: Highway 101
Heading north from Santa Monica to Oakland and approaching San Jose, I heard the following...
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