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Like many pilots, I still haven’t gotten my head around all the details related to the Next Generation National Airspace System. EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, I figured, would be the perfect place to learn more about its components, like ADS-B, the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast system, and have the people who really know paint me a big [...]
That Future of Flight Training session at AirVenture a few weeks ago left me feeling pretty cranky … whiny even. Not because of the session itself. All the folks on the panel, including moderator Greg Laslo, couldn’t have been nicer. But we all walked away from the discussion with the same thought … now what? [...]
On many levels the 2010 Electric Aircraft World Symposium was a surprise. Sponsored by GE Aviation and held at the EAA museum on AirVenture Friday, I expected a geek fest with a small audience of a hundred or less, because that’s the space available in the Founder’s Wing, the symposium’s original location. But when I [...]
Given the underwhelming participation at an 1130 panel discussion about the subject the Saturday of AirVenture Oshkosh, the general answer must be a big, boldfaced NO. For the discussion of How to Grow the Pilot Population, just seven of the nearly 100 seats in the Learn to Fly Discovery Center’s presentation area were occupied, by [...]
An EAA AirVenture Oshkosh participant every year since 1978, I started spending the week there in 1989, when I began a decade-long tenure as Flight Training magazine’s booth boy. I spent roughly half that time in the old exhibit buildings, now the Federal Pavilion and GE Aviation Learning Center, and the remainder in one of [...]
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