Tag "promoting-aviation"

December 19, 2012

Christmas light rides for fun or profit

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Christmas light rides for fun or profit As a starving flight instructor working for a start-up FBO in a small town of 25,000 people, we were always looking for ways to drum up new business. The Christmas of 1992 we concocted a great…

December 18, 2012

Ohio declares December as GA Appreciation Month

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Ohio declares December as GA Appreciation Month I often lament about living in Ohio, mostly because of the lousy weather. One thing I can’t complain about is general aviation (GA) in this state, it is alive and well.

December 15, 2012

A shout-out to aviation’s volunteers

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! A shout-out to aviation’s volunteers Flying creates such an emotional connection that it really draws people in, many of these folks actually never fly. In fact, some of the more important people to our hobby aren’t licensed at all. The good news about aviation…

December 13, 2012

Virtual Self-Righteous Aviator

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Virtual Self-Righteous Aviator As a companion article to the Self-Righteous Aviator(SRA), I present to you the Virtual Self-Righteous Aviator (V-SRA). This particular sub-species of SRA, can usually be found lurking on message boards throughout the Internet as trolls. Their modus operandi is to…

November 28, 2012

The Self-Righteous Aviator

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! The Self-Righteous Aviator One of the phenomena that I have observed in the wild is the self-righteous aviator (SRA). You know the one; they think they know it all and everyone else is beneath them. This curious species usually migrates to local airports…

November 23, 2012

Why do people live near airports and then complain?

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Why do people live near airports and then complain? Editorial Help me out. Why do people move in next to an airport and then complain about the airplanes? This completely blows my mind. Are they so compulsive that they go through the arduous…

October 26, 2012

What Should You Do To Help The Declining Pilot Population

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! What Should You Do To Help The Declining Pilot Population Editorial There has been a lot published lately on the deterioration of our sport, but I haven’t seen much on what we should be doing to help. Setting aside the barriers, we all know…

September 19, 2012

iFLYblog.com Audiocast Episode #3

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! This is episode #3 of the iFLYblog.com Audiocast. To be fair, this isn’t a podcast in the traditional sense. The audiocast will simply be an audio version of posts that are here on the blog. The truth is, lots of folks like to…