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Lately I've been flying a lot out of Montgomery County Airpark (GAI) north of DC and deal with a lot of traffic each time; there are four flight schools, a CAP Wing, a Coast Guard element, and over 155 based aircraft. As of 2022, estimates put total operations at GAI close to 80,000 (a 12%...

In the last few years I got into reading several of John Grisham's novels when a common thread began to reveal itself... that he must be a pilot (and sure enough, he is in the FAA database as a PP, ASEL/AMEL) and his books incorporate some aspect of general aviation flying. The ones I've come...

After a 38-year flying career (22 USAF and 16 airline), I retired and took what turned out to be a nearly 3-year break from aviation. I began with a PPL prior to the USAF and remained active in General Aviation pretty much throughout my career, mostly renting at whatever airport happened to be...

Hi everyone, my first post here on this forum. I'm a "somewhat" rusty pilot not having flown anything in the GA world in about three years and looking forward to getting started again before the end of the month. I began flying with a PPL in 1982 (as a non-flying Air Force officer at the Hanscom...