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Celebrating the fun of flying!

Every pilot likes to share his experiences and show how much fun it is to fly. I am no different. So I decided to dedicate this page to the single engine airplanes I am flying.>

Have fun!

Listen in to ATC!

Listen to Tower Control at John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Orange County, California!
Frequency 126.80 MHz, Tower Control for Runway 19R/1L. Feed from my Airband Scanner.
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The tower is active from 6:15 to 23:00 Pacific Time.
The tower is currently active.

See approaches to and departures from various airports as the pilot sees it!

These video clips were shot from the passenger seat of several Cessna 172s while the pilot (me) was flying.

See approaches to

I also added some departures to my video collection:

Carlsbad, CA (CRQ)
Palm Springs, CA (PSP)

These video clips are best viewed using a high speed connection to the internet, e.g. a Cable modem or DSL connection.

Other Aviation Links

Friends of Meigs Field Meigs Field in Chicago (the "greatest little airport on the planet") is probably the best-known airport in the world, since it is the home airport of Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
Newsflash: disregarding all agreements, Chicago mayor Daley has started demolishing Meigs Field. For details, see the Friends of Meigs Field website.
SoCal Approach, A Web Resource for Aviation Enthusiasts
What can happen if you fly into IMC. Something to contemplate, especially for VFR-only pilots
FAA Order 7110.65L, Paragraph 5-5-3, regarding separation for wake turbulence for aircraft operating behind B757's, was partly motivated by an accident in the approach path to SNA, which killed the owner of the In-N-Out Hamburger Chain. The NTSB has the synopsis and the detailed narrative with voice recorder excerpts online.

Stop Dreaming, Start Flying

I support the Be A Pilot campaign to revitalize General Aviation. Find out more about it here or call 1-800-BE-A-PILOT.

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His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circum- stances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit. Silence, though, could. It was in the days of the rains that their prayers went up, not from the fingering of knotted prayer cords or the spinning of prayer wheels, but from the great pray-machine in the monastery of Ratri, goddess of the Night. The high-frequency prayers were directed upward through the atmosphere and out beyond it, passing into that golden cloud called the Bridge of the Gods, which circles the entire world, is seen as a bronze rainbow at night and is the place where the red sun becomes orange at midday. Some of the monks doubted the orthodoxy of this prayer technique... -- Roger Zelazny, "Lord of Light"

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