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Published: 20 April 2023

  By Howard Deevers   … this is not an obituary, this is a remembrance   Barbara was born in San Diego and was involved in aviation long before coming to Arizona in 1974.  I did not arrive in Arizona until 1999.  Barbara and I first met while we both served on the Board of Directors for the Arizona Pilots Association.  Board meetings were

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Published: 15 April 2023

By Chris Nugent   As you probably saw in last month’s newsletter, the APA team had a great time talking with our members at the recent AOPA Fly-In/Buckeye Air Fair and the Cactus Fly-In. I also had the pleasure of meeting with some of our recent scholarship recipients to get an update on their journey towards their aviation careers. I’m happy to report that they

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Published: 20 March 2023

  By Howard Deevers   Many years ago there was a TV series called SKY KING. “Skyler King” was an Arizona rancher in this series. Before TV it was also a radio drama once a week. Those of us old enough to remember SKY KING also remember the airplane he flew and the adventures that he got into every week. Kirby Grant played the part of Sky King. To many of us

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Published: 15 March 2023

By Chris Nugent   In this month’s Scholarship Corner article, we will continue to provide some more information on our 2023 scholarship recipients. It’s important that you hear from them directly, so I have asked each of them to provide a brief overview of themselves and their aviation career goals in their own word.   Evan Erickson For my 18th birthday

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Published: 20 February 2023

  By Howard Deevers   Learning to fly has many challenges in both skills and book learning. One of the many tasks that we are expected to master is talking on the radio. We must learn how to communicate with Air Traffic Control at airports and along the route with the Center controllers. On your first lesson, the instructor handles all communication on the radio

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Published: 15 February 2023

By Chris Nugent   January was a busy month for the Scholarship Committee. Thanks to your support we were able to award a total of 13 of scholarships for the 2023 academic year – a record for our program. We’ve been busy working with the colleges and flight schools our recipients are attending to ensure their scholarship funding is in place for their spring semester

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Published: 15 January 2023

By Chris Nugent   We had another great turnout for the 2022 scholarship cycle with forty-three applications received. The overall quality of the scholarship applications has always been impressive, and the 2022 submissions were no exception. In past years, the career objectives for the majority of the applicant’s focused on becoming professional aviators. However

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Published: 14 January 2023

  By Howard Deevers   Many of us that have been flying for a long enough time can remember when there were Flight Service Stations located all over the country. Most were at airports, and you could just walk in, fill out a flight plan, get a briefing in person, and be on your way. Oh, the “good old days.” I had flown from Pittsburgh to Dallas in a Mooney M20J

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Published: 15 December 2022

By Chris Nugent   November is typically a busy month for the Scholarship Committee as we focus on evaluating this year’s scholarship applications. As I mentioned last month, we received forty-three applications for the 2022 application cycle, so this past month was no different. The review process is made that much more difficult based on upward trend in the

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Published: 14 December 2022

  By Howard Deevers   On a recent Private Pilot check ride, the examiner asked the student pilot, “How do you turn on your ELT?” The student struggled to answer that question, since there was no remote switch for the ELT in the plane used for the check ride. The question came during the flight portion of the test, and not during the oral part of the