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Tips from a former broadcaster to take your radio work with ATC next-level.

What brings us all together is that sense of exploration, adventure, and wonder when we look up to the sky and know we must be there.

CFI Update: Right Seat Landings, an epiphany! .0524. Drop me a line when this has meaning for you. 

You do read your FAR-AIM by candlelight, right? Just you, the FARs, and smooth jazz on the record player.

Can you dentify these weather charts?

I didn't know they had a T-34, I thought. This looks like just the right thing for my spin endorsement. After all, it's aerobatic, it's got warbird flavor — the works.

Some years back. . .after I had been flying for a while, I became increasingly frustrated with the stodgy way in which I oriented to the checklist. I was committed to using it, but I felt like something was missing.

What is your take? Obviously, climate, airframe hours, history of abuse, etc. all weigh in on the matter. I can't help but be reflective of a sobering reality inherent in flying 30, 40, 50 year old airplanes.

May the memory of those mighty souls ever whisper in remembrance on the free air of our lives of peacefulness and abundance. On Memorial Day, always remember.

Don talks with his friend Kenny Smith about airsickness the TEMCO T-35 Buckaroo and more.