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Experimental Aircraft Association June, 2017 (4th Edition)
Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania Volume 41, Number 06
Doylestown Airport (KDYL)
3879 Old Easton Rd.
Doylestown, PA 18902
Meets: Last Wed each of month (7:30 PM)

CHAPTER CHATTER

Chapter Number 78 Flying Through History

Takeoffs and Landings: Crosswind Landings Deadly Turn: Base to Final

Every pilot learns the technique for a proper crosswind landing, but this Arguably, the deadliest turn in aviation is the one from base leg to final
skill requires more than knowing the proper control inputs. approach.

Going Direct: Trump ATC

Takeoffs and Landing: Base-to-Final Turn Proposal Shocks GA World

GA pilots, industry players, member organizations
respond with outrage over the administration’s
proposed adoption of ATC giveaway to the airlines.

It shouldn’t have come as a surprise, but the aviation
world responded in shock and outrage when President
Trump, as the first step in his major infrastructure
upgrade plan, announced his proposal to turn over
control of United States Air Traffic Control functions to
an organization to be controlled by major U.S. airlines.
The president had announced in his budget in late
March his intention to do just that, but the industry did
not then respond forcefully, and some insiders voiced
their hope at the time that the proposal would be

Overshooting that base-to-final turn can be a problem. Trying to get forgotten. We voiced our concern over the budget item
back on course safely can be dangerous. back when the administration announced it, writing that
such a giveaway would be disastrous for GA in the
United States.