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New Aviation Event - Lancaster Airport Fly-in Breakfast and Presentation, Lititz, PA - Saturday, Jan 5, 2019

Breakfast from 9-10:30 AM. Cost: Adults $7, Children 6-12 $3. Children 5 and under FREE. Presentation begins at 10:30. To Buy or Not To Buy? What to look for in a pre-buy inspection. Not all pre-buy inspections are created equal, and they can have a big impact on our finances and safety! Our speaker will be a highly experienced AP/IA and aircraft restorer. Join us as we learn about the elements of a good pre-buy and other maintenance issues important to aircraft owners. To register visit: https://www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/event_details.aspx?eid=88206&caller=/SPANS/events/EventList.aspx

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Pilot Destination Update - Ponderosa Lodge and Golf, Lock Haven, PA

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"My wife Brenda and I stayed at the Doll House. Beautiful little cabin and a great way to get away for the weekend,,,,,we actually saw our first snow of the season on the way to the cabin. Nice people, reasonable price and great location. I have also flown our Autogyro Cavalon gyrocopter into their airport and the runway is in good condition. Call ahead and they will come out to meet you with a golf cart." - Submitted by Ronald Andress.
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Pilot Destination Update - Brenham Municipal Airport, Brenham, TX

"The Southern Flyer airport cafe has reopened. Good food and atmosphere. The Diner hours are Friday thru Monday. 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM." - Submitted by C.Baker.
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New Aviation Event - US Sport Aviation Expo, Sebring, FL - Wednesday - Saturday, Jan 23-26, 2019

Exhibits open from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Sebring Regional Airport's U.S. Sport Aviation Expo will have a grand entrance through the stunning airport Galleria January 23-26, 2019 flanked with aircraft parked directly in front of the entrance. Visitors will have the opportunity to listen to many new speakers such as Dr. Jocelyn Dunn, NASA Research Scientist Scott Farnsworth, DASH Flight Team Barrington Irving the youngest person to pilot a plane around the world solo to name a few. Large scale MultiGP sanctioned Drone Race will be happening again for 2019. Expo is encouraging people with amateur-built aircraft or kit planes to fly in to Sebring's Expo and show off for four days.

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Sport Aviation Expo 2018 - Sebring, Florida - AVweb

Check out AVweb coverage for the Sport Aviation Expo back in January, 2018.

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Biggest & Smallest Van's Aircraft (RV-10 VS RV-12) Fleet demo Flying - FlightChops

Steve Thorne gets a unique opportunity to tour and fly multiple Van's RVs.

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New Aviation Event - EAA Chapter 1592 New Years Fly-In, Rusk, TX - Tuesday, Jan 1, 2019

Join us as we celebrate the new year with ham, black-eyed peas, greens, and cornbread! Donations appreciated!

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New Aviation Event - Holiday Fun, Winter Haven, FL - Friday, Dec 21, 2018

Tree lighting and holiday fun at Wi tee Haven Airport 4-6pm Book Reading with Santa, cookies and crafts for the kids. Prizes and guess the count games.

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New Aviation Event - All You Can Eat Pancakes, Arcadia, FL - Saturday, Dec 15, 2018

All you can eat pancakes, sausage, OJ coffee only $6. Starts at 9 am. Bring the family for a great day at the airport. PIC eats free for a low pass on arrival. While here visit Aviation City. Note: 100LL is only $ 3.58 so come and get it!

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New Aviation Event - Dinner with a Slice of History The Story of Bessie Coleman, Presented by her Great-Niece, Cleveland, OH - Friday, Feb 15, 2019

Feb. 15, 2018 - Dinner with a Slice of History. Don't miss the chance to meet the great-niece of Bessie Coleman and hear the story of this aviation pioneer who refused to take no for an answer! After being denied access to American flight schools because of her race and gender, Coleman traveled to France, where she became the first African-American woman to obtain a pilot's license. In honor of Black History Month, Gigi Coleman will be at IWASM to perform her one-woman show based on the life of her great-aunt. This event will inspire guests of all ages to follow their dreams. Dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. with presentation to follow. To reserve your tickets, please call the office at 216.623.1111. The 2019 Dinner Series is made possible from the residents of Cuyahoga County through a grant from Cuyahoga Arts Culture.

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Class D Airspace Radio Communications (Arrival) - MzeroA Flight Training

In part 2 of MzeroA's radio communication series in class delta airspace, they bring you back to the Ocala airport. Showing proper arrival procedures.

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Best Tugs Reinvents the Aircraft Tug - Aviation International News

For a little less than half the price of a Model 3, an FBO or MRO can safely and efficiently move aircraft up to 24,000 pounds in and out of hangars and around the ramp with cutting-edge electronic controls including an autothrottle.

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How Mooney Marries Metal to Composite - AVweb

At Mooney's Kerrville, Texas factory, the company has invested in new production techniques and equipment. In this AVweb video, the company's Kevin Hawley explains how Mooney marries the new composite shell to the traditional metal tail section.

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ForeFlight Update! Synthetic Vision on the iPhone - AOPALive

ForeFlight adds Synthetic Vision to the iPhone and Trip Assistant.

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EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019 - Experience Oshkosh - EAA

Experience the largest annual gathering of aviation enthusiasts. From unique, historic aircraft to world-class daily air shows, you don't want to miss the World's Greatest Aviation Celebration.

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New Places to Fly!

New York City Hudson River Exclusion - New York, NY

Flying the Hudson River Exclusion, Uncontrolled airspace underneath the class B of EWR/JFK/LGA. Ama...

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Hot Springs Memorial Field - Hot Springs, AR

Great in town airport in a great tourist town. Uncontrolled airport but has rental cars and very fri...

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Fly-IN Cafe @ Terre Haute Regional Airport - Terre Haute, IN

Great little breakfast, lunch, and dinner spot right in the Terre Haute Regional Airport. Home cooke...

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Beechcraft Heritage Museum - Tullahoma, TN

A world class aviation museum exhibiting 37 vintage to modern day aircraft within our 78,000 square ...

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St. Igance - Driftwood Restaurant and Motel - St Ignace, MI

Reasonably priced home cooking, drinks and lodging. Five minutes to downtown via Mackinac County Ai...

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Woodring Wall of Honor and Veterans Park, Inc. - Enid, OK

We have a 80 scale replica of the Vietnam Memorial Wall and a small museum and educational center ho...

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Sally's Family Restaurant - White Cloud, MI

Sally's family restaurant was a great mom and pop style comfort food. Only a 1/4 mile walk south of ...

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Foodies Cafe KCIC - Durham, CA

Foodies Cafe is a hidden gem. It is two blocks from KCIC. The owner has been, and still is, a succes...

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Taos Mesa Brewery - El Prado, NM

Taos Mesa Brewing is a local craft brewery located directly across highway 64 from Taos Regional Air...

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Pilot Toys - Record Headset Audio, Intercom and ATC for GoPro Hero5, Hero6, and Hero7 - NFlightCam

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Aviation Videos!

FULL DEMO! V8 Auto Engine with PSRU's Geared Drive for Aircraft - FunPlacesToFly.com

SkyDive 35 - Tandem Skydive in Dallas Fort Worth - FunPlacesToFly.com

EAA Chapter 1246 Auto Engine Adapter Presentation - FunPlacesToFly.com

Majors Field Fly-in - Warbirds! - Greenville, Texas - FunPlacesToFly.com

EAA Chapter 1246 Young Eagles Day - McKinney, Texas - EAA Chapter 1246

Breakfast With the Metal Mistress - FunPlacesToFly.com

Evening Storm - No Flyin' this Afternoon! - FunPlacesToFly.com

AirVenture Oshkosh - Builders and Bombers - FunPlacesToFly.com

Powered Aircraft Tow for Cessna's! PLUS a C172 flight to Commerce, TX - FunPlacesToFly.com

Part 2 - GoPro Session 5 FOV Compare - Split Screen Version - FunPlacesToFly.com

GoPro Session 5 Field of View Aerial Compare: Good-bye Fish-eye! - FunPlacesToFly.com

Lightspeed Zulu 3 Aviation Headset Unboxing - FunPlacesToFly.com

Aviation Blogs!

The Prevalence Error - Why We Look But Do Not See - Rod Machado

Recently, I was having a difficult time seeing things that were in plain view. I was even thinking about visiting the Our Lady of Fatima Optometry Center, where their motto is, "If we can't correct your vision, at least you can have one."

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Runway Safety Madness - Tonque N' Cheek - Rod Machado

Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt. That's my new strategy for preventing runway incursions. It's a reasonable plan, given that these events have actually increased since the FAA began seriously collecting statistics on the issue. That's right. Despite the implementation of new rules and airport signage, incursions continue to increase year after year (about a 25% increase since 2013). If I were superstitious I might suggest we stop doing things to reduce runway incursions so that their numbers will decrease to some previous level. Unfortunately the "Don't look at it and it will go away" trick probably won't work here.

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The Stall Horn Fallacy of Stall Prevention - Rod Machado

News flash! The Mona Lisa's eyebrows are missing. That's right. Gone! Some say they were scrubbed off during an early restoration. I suspect they were vaporized when Leonardo had Mona over for a pre-portrait barbecue and he took excessive liberty with the lighter fluid. While I didn't attend a BBQ, my eyebrows are also missing. At least they appeared to disappear as they rose above my forehead in surprise at the FAA's and ACS committee's dumbing-down of standards for commercial pilot certification.

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Be Here Now! - Rod Machado

Over the years, I've seen my grandfather do a number of strange things. One time, while watching football on TV, he sat there yelling at the players. I couldn't help but say, "Grandpa, they can't hear you." He replied, "Oh yeah, that's right, they got their helmets on."

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The Middle-Aged Aviator - Rod Machado

Over the years, I've heard many stories about middle-aged pilots (45-65 years) who gave up flying due to a sudden onset of anxiety. Apparently this wasn't induced by any specific aviation trauma nor inspired by the relatively small and perfectly normal decline of reflexes and mental agility experienced by most middle aged pilots. What in the world might spook a 50-ish pilot into abandoning something he obviously once loved to do?

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Suburi Training - How to Get the Most Out of a Flight Simulator - Rod Machado

The 1984 movie The Karate Kid revealed a rare pedagogical truth of immense value to flight instructors. The movie centers around Daniel, who volunteers to polish the car and sand the deck of his neighbor Mr. Miyagi (a martial arts master).

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BAD INSTRUCTORS: HOW THEY BEHAVE AND WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW - Rod Machado

Rod Machado - "I'm curious about your experience with bad flight instructors and hope you'll add to this blog with your comments. Of course, most flight instructors do a fantastic job. I just can't say that LOUD enough: Most flight instructors do a fantastic job. But not all do! And when they don't, they cause a lot of damage to the flight training industry."

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Synthetic Vision Capability Added to iFly GPS - Adventure Pilot, LLC.

Adventure Pilot has announced the addition of synthetic vision capability to their iFly GPS system. This new feature provides a 3D terrain view, detailed obstruction icons and many other elements that allow pilots to have a better understanding of their surroundings. Synthetic Vision is available as a free upgrade with any paid iFly GPS subscription.

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Those thrilling days of yesteryear... - Tom Speerstra

As boys growing up in the rural Midwest, my brother and I were very fortunate to have been fetched up across the road from a small sod landing strip. As a result we were both bitten by the aviation bug at a young age. I have many fond memories of lying in the tall grass at the foot of a walnut tree on the edge of the field watching the Sunday flyers carve circles around our little sod strip in the hollow in the hills.

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Flying At Night - Clayviation.com

One of my first flights was at night. I was a passenger in a Cessna 172 on a hop up to Chattanooga. The pilot was my friend and future instructor. I was still a little uneasy about flying - something that a few hours of flight training helped to take away. Every so often I would look below and a tinge of uneasiness would make me wonder how I had gotten up there, but the opposing force was the twinkling lights below and the calm stillness of the air around us. So what's different about flying at night?

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Aviate, Navigate, Communicate - A Pilot's Priority Checklist - Clayviation.com

It's a common practice for a checkride examiner to try to distract the pilot applicant. Ah yes, the old 'drop the pen' trick. Here's how it goes. You're a student pilot taking your checkride to become a certificated pilot. In the right seat, your examiner sits with a clipboard. You are flying the airplane and performing various tasks and maneuvers at the request of the examiner. Each task asked of you requires a certain degree of competency to satisfy its requirements. Maintaining plus or minus 100 feet of the assigned altitude, for instance. After a few of these, you grow accustomed to the examiner proverbially asking you to jump and you responding, proverbially, with 'how high?'

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Four Ways To Master Your Airplane's GPS On The Ground - Clayviation.com

We got ahead of some developing weather in Nashville and the route had cleared nicely for my final leg home. It was a smooth ride in a low workload environment - the kind that is easy to get bored or complacent. But a good pilot always has something to do, so I made the most of the cruise. One of the uses I found for my time was to gain a deeper understanding of the avionics in the airplane.

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