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Benton 2024: Big Fly-In, Short Runway

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A combination of weather and a global pandemic kept us away from Benton for five years. Lunch was served in a large hangar with plenty of space to dine under tents. Pilots in command were provided with a free "Fly-In and Pig Out" T-shirt that I have since turned into a wall decoration in my hangar.

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A Port for the Air

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Port Meadville Airport Seventy Seven Years Port Meadville Airport's gate leads directly onto a residential street, though one of the first houses had a hangar within which a J3 Cub waited for its next flight. Tragically, her instructor's Cessna Cardinal crashed after departing into severe weather from Cheyenne, Wyoming.

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Flight training

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The previously mentioned initial type rating is the most ubiquitous form of regulatory need-to-have training for professional pilots. According to US regulations, a type rating is required for the pilot-in-command (PIC) of heavy aircraft (those with a max takeoff weight [MTOW] of more than 12,500 lb) or turbojet-powered airplanes.

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Budget Buys and Early Bye-Bye’s

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A friend reminds you of a couple additional nuggets of due diligence to be reckoned with—a hangar and insurance. Luckily, your friend just so happens to have a friend with some hangar space available at your home airport in Pueblo, Colorado. The weather is VMC but it’s hot, and the density altitude is really creeping up there.

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Alton Bay's "Excellent Water"

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But getting there from Rochester, NY is never a simple task and not only requires the runway to be open with favorable conditions, but the weather between here and there must be amenable to a six hour round trip there and back again. Today would be his first landing on the ice as pilot in command. Still.not cool.

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Intermountain Life Flight

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When hiring pilots, requirements include a minimum of 3000 hours TT and experience in the medical field, although most applicants who join the aviation unit have closer to 5000 hours. Once hired, the company has a pilot development program in which second-in-command (SIC) pilots train to meet pilot-in-command (PIC) standards.

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Intermountain Life Flight

Professional Pilot

When hiring pilots, requirements include a minimum of 3000 hours TT and experience in the medical field, although most applicants who join the aviation unit have closer to 5000 hours. Once hired, the company has a pilot development program in which second-in-command (SIC) pilots train to meet pilot-in-command (PIC) standards.

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