just finished reading “Right Seat: Enjoy the View” in Flight Training (March 2014). Having retired from flying around the world for United Airlines this past summer after turning 65 years of age, the view from the cockpit is what I really miss.
I have been flying for 49 years. My solo cross-country was in a Cessna 150 in South Florida. I pulled banners in a Cub in Daytona Beach; I have flown a visual approach in a Cessna 310 into LGA; flown a polar route to China in a Boeing 777.
It has always been what I see through the front windows, or as a passenger looking out the side windows—this is what flying is all about.
Roger Anuskewicz
Reading Ian Twombly’s “Right Seat: Enjoy the View” put a smile on my face. I am nearing 50, and can’t help feeling like a kid when I exercise my privilege to fly as a pilot. I refuse to see through the eyes of an adult. Thank heavens for the children in the world—and aviation for keeping my capacity to wonder intact.
Martín Lozano
Oops, wrong airport
Great story about “Oops, Wrong Airport” (February 2014 Flight Training). Truth be told, it has happened again and again—little airplanes landing at big military fields, and the (rare) big airplane squeezing into a GA runway.
As a CFI, I teach students “the best way to avoid landing on the wrong runway is to visually identify all of the runways.” Similarly, “the best way to avoid landing at a nearby airport is to visually identify all the nearby airports.”
It is pure irony that the graphic on page 48 misidentifies the Cessna Aircraft field (CEA) as McConnell Air Force base (IAB). Your circle is drawn around the magenta airfield at the Cessna plant, just to the north of the approach end of Runway 19 at McConnell AFB, which is depicted in blue on the chart. Please tell me that 100 other pilots caught this error! It does show how easily this mistake can be made.
Jim Walters
Kudos
Being an aspiring commercial pilot and college student can be full of tough decisions. While I sit here wondering which luxury item I must do without to afford my AOPA renewal for Flight Training magazine, I ponder what life would be like without it. Then I ponder what life would be like without beer. After that I read “Flight Lesson: Unseen Cell” (March 2014 Flight Training), which made my decision that much easier—only great stories and useful information come from Flight Training magazine. AOPA delivers; love you guys.
Nick Hendershot
I just wanted to let Greg Brown know how much I enjoyed another great article he wrote in Flight Training. I just read it this morning (“Flying Carpet: Picnicking Pilots,” March 2014). Well done. I have flown to Payson for breakfast, but never thought about a day trip to enjoy Tonto. His description of an evening return to Sedona and then the night flight decision making was excellent. His writing makes aviation relatable and relevant by identifying its most fundamental rewards. That’s what GA needs.
Darrell Wilson
Phoenix, Arizona
Erratum
In “Walk the Talk” (Flight Training March 2014), the correct reference for finding the clearances is Section 8 of Chapter 3, not the way it is printed. Flight Training regrets the error.
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