AOPA update
I had two days of meetings at AOPA headquarters on December 14-15 as a member of the reconstituted ASN Board of Advisors. AOPA has moved far enough along on President Mark Baker’s Things To Do list to show some much needed love to this volunteer program. I’m the Airport Support Network volunteer for our airport. I got a call from […]
Read More →Our New Name
After 18 months of our airport’s name change sitting ignored on the desks of various FAA employees, we were surprised by a set of FDC NOTAMs released on Friday, October 13 for each of our instrument approaches, like this one: !FDC 7/2843 FNL IAP FORT COLLINS-LOVELAND MUNI, Fort Collins/Loveland, CO. VOR/DME-A, AMDT 7 … CHART NOTE: DME REQUIRED. CHANGE AIRPORT NAME […]
Read More →Third Class Medical Reform
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably aware that Congress finally passed third class medical reform into law last July. They gave the FAA one year to implement the law. The latest FAAST Blast from the FAA includes this paragraph, entitled FAA Making Progress on New Pilot Medical Qualifications: The FAA is working to implement Section 2307 of […]
Read More →Sorry, no FNL Pilots Association Christmas Party this year
In years past we held our Christmas party in the modular terminal building, but that’s now occupied by Greenride. Last year we co-hosted the party with EAA Chapter 515 at Rick Raez’s home. But this year we weren’t able to secure a spot. EAA Chapter 515 and jetCenter have sent out invitations and are hosting their own holiday gatherings — […]
Read More →IMC Club
Last Spring, a pilot friend flew down to Centennial Airport to attend an “IMC Club” meeting put on by Independence Aviation. He enjoyed it very much, and told me he thought it would be great if we could create such a club at FNL. The idea of the IMC Club is to present a scenario of something going awry during […]
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