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I will be flying to Coolidge next Saturday about 8 AM in my S35. It will stay there some hours for some repairs and checks. There is no official fly-in breakfast there that weekend, but if any other members wanted to fly over and meet me there, we can find a ride into Florence or Coolidge for...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-affiliations/2025/08/19/breaking-barriers-and-soaring-into-history-pittsburghs-three-helens-during-the-golden-age-of-aviation/

Summary: A gear collapse of a V35B Bonanza at Deer Valley Airport was caused by a slip of the pilot confusing the gear and flap levers. There was no danger of nor any injuries. The incident caused complete economic loss of the aircraft. Introduction: This incident has been of some interest to...

From the PilotSpin forum on Oct 5, 2021: Since a number of posters seem to be interested in my 2014 protest against the TSA at the Phoenix Sky Harbor airport, I will post a few responses and links here. (I tend to think of it as old news). Firstly, let's clear up some facts. This was a...

Good grief. More over-generalization after an accident. How about just requiring the military to remove these dangerous routes near crowded airspace? Instead Cruz wants all GA aircraft to have to have ADS-B In. But neither of the aircraft involved in the DC collision were GA aircraft...

Interesting bit on the first hijacking. Though I think they get the cost per passenger wrong by quite a few orders of magnitude. And omit the important fact that hijackings in the US had been declining for several years prior to the implementation of mandatory metal detectors...

Have had a number of troubles with hot starts on the S35 here in AZ. This page from CSO Beech is quite good. Especially the part about slowly advancing the throttle during starting to hit the right fuel-air ratio seems to work.

I was landing at Payson KPAN the other day and ended up having a long final for Rwy 24. Have a look at this on Google Earth and tell me what you think. With the drop off to the east it occurred to me later that one probably should really fly this approach rather high on the power off glide...

The start of a much needed scaling back of the FAA’s arbitrary decision making on medicals https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2025/july/03/court-rules-faa-antidepressant-denial-arbitrary

We landed in my C150 Aerobat at KFFZ a few months back and up walked this gentleman. He had owned N6067J decades ago in CA (before its move to Rapid City). Subsequently he moved here and keeps an airplane at Falcon and heard the call sign one day. So he decided to look this up and came out to meet.

https://www.flyingmag.com/william-langewiesche-acclaimed-journalist-and-pilot-dies-at-70/

Like most things the government does - it likely would have been better never Federalized. Now a bunch of pork involved - https://www.npr.org/2025/06/06/nx-s1-5424682/air-traffic-control-overhaul

241 fatalities with 1 survivor. Lifts off and climb for about 12 seconds and then descends. What on earth?

This looks like it may be quite a good read - https://www.amazon.com/Aviator-Showman-Earhart-Marriage-American/dp/0593295900

@James Logajan may recognize this ship. Lake Powell and Navajo Mountain Amazingly green in these small canyons On the way home

Autopilot worked while only co-pilot incapacitated. I do wonder what happened to him… https://airlive.net/reports/2025/05/15/report-lufthansa-co-pilot-experienced-a-severe-incapacitation-mid-air-while-alone-in-cockpit/

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Here is a puzzler regarding the approaches at Phoenix-Gateway KIWA. The VOR 30C is marked radar required, some searching suggests, because there is no way to get to an IAF from the enroute structure without radar vectors from ATC. That makes sense. Why is the ILS 30C not subject to the same...

Well, this is nice to see. We really do just need to be rid of them. https://www.gatechecked.com/boom-supersonic-ceo-wants-airport-screening-abolished-10388

Remember, the S stands for “surveillance” https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2025/april/17/aircraft-owners-speak-up-for-your-privacy