Connie Sue White Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Controlled Airspace Communication

As we tracked west over the Straits of Florida’s calm teal- and azure-swirled waters, flying at an altitude of 1,500 feet and just south of the Overseas Highway that links the chain of islands leading to the southernmost tip of the United States, I couldn’t help but marvel at the 127.5 miles of roadway and […]

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Connie Sue White Monday, April 9, 2012

Sport Pilot: Leaving the Comfort Zone

When First Landings, the flight school where I did my Sport Pilot training, announced it was organizing a North Carolina “adventure flight,” I was intrigued. The plan was for a group of us to depart early one Friday morning in April from Apopka, Florida’s X04 for a long weekend of hiking and whitewater rafting in […]

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Connie Sue White Friday, March 30, 2012

Carrying on the Love of Aviation

The scene of the Martin Family relaxing Wednesday morning next tor their just-restored 1946 Fairchild, is captivating for more than one reason. A young family camping at Sun ‘n Fun next to an antique airplane they flew nine hours from Pennsylvania to be at this year’s fly-in speaks volumes in that it is exactly what […]

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Connie Sue White Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Stoking the Romance of Aviation

When CAP Seminole Composite Squadron Deputy Cmdr. Kenny Eads asked a group of five Cadets to volunteer for a unique mission, it caught on like wildfire. The assignment: build the first ever Fire Hub on the Sun ‘n Fun campgrounds. Eads explained to the young men that it would be the first of 50 Fire […]

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Connie Sue White Wednesday, February 22, 2012

More Aeronautical Experience a Plus

(March 2012) When I opened my eyes, an immediate instrument scan of the Remos GX‘s Dynon PFD revealed that we were in a steep climb and right bank, losing airspeed. As I made the scan, I simultaneously took the controls and initiated recovery from the unusual attitude in which my instructor, First Landings Aviation‘s Chris […]

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Connie Sue White Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Sun ‘n Fun Now ‘StormReady’

The property damage, destruction and flooding caused by the E-1 tornado and torrential downpour that hit the Sun ‘n Fun grounds on March 31, 2011, will likely be on the minds of many as the 38th Annual Sun ‘n Fun International Fly-in & Expo approaches. Though the odds of a repeat performance happening again at […]

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Connie Sue White Wednesday, January 25, 2012

A Record-Breaking U.S. Sport Aviation Expo?

For two hours last Saturday, Sebring Regional Airport was the busiest airport in the country. Just one of the preliminary indicators that the 8th Annual U.S. Sport Aviation Expo at Sebring, Florida, saw a record-breaking turnout, at least in flight operations. In addition to the flight ops, early estimates show that 16,000 attended the four-day […]

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Connie Sue White Monday, January 23, 2012

Avionics and LSA

(February 2012) The first time I climbed into the Remos G-3 it was for my Sport Pilot discovery flight. The “shiny” Dynon Avionics glass and Garmin GPS, navcom and radio did not go unnoticed as I scanned the panel. “Wow, this Sport Pilot stuff is cool,” I thought. Especially since prior to this flight I […]

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