Ok, it's not really a renovation. But it is a new look for our beloved terminal building. More from Meredith Saini: As the Female In Charge (FIC) of the MCAA, I decided it was high time to toss the dusty, dated artificial flowers and fake ficus on the main level of the terminal building and replace them with something a bit more modern and fresh looking. So next time you're at the airport, please take a moment to gaze upon the display and let me know what you think. I am not an interior designer by any stretch but I do my best. It is a work in progress. We, together with John Luke, are starting to make some aesthetic ...

The Washington Post published an editorial on August 22 with its take on this summer’s airline delays. A letter to the editor on September 1 had another take. Now our own Wendell Pope offers his view: My reaction was the same concerning congestion in the national airspace system. The biggest problem by far is runway congestion so why is this ADS-B project being presented as a solution? My cynical side sees this as a way to funnel big contract money to contractors rather than dealing with the political hot potato of building more runways. ADS-B technology is great, but this is not a solution to airline congestion problems. Another interesting aspect of this congestion issue ...

The TSS fleet will fan out across Pennsylvania on October 14 for the Great Grass Race. This is an exercise in old fashioned dead reckoning and pilotage. Participants in the race will navigate to grass strips using nothing but their compasses, their eyes and whatever features they can pick out on the ground. No GPS, no VORs, no ADFs, no radar vectors. Oh yeah, no LORAN either! Our most eager TSS pilots are already preparing for the challenge. TSS pilots Herb and Mark honed their grass field skills this past weekend. Here is Herb’s report: --- 1. We flew to Hays Field (180 RAD about 15 miles from EMI) and did some takeoffs and landings. It is a challenging but ...

We hope you will join us on Saturday, September 15 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. for the MCAA's annual airport picnic and open house. As always, free food and beverages will be provided by the MCAA with the help and support of the GAI flying clubs and the local Rotary Club. This year, there will be several fun and hopefully interesting activities in store, including thrill rides in a classic 1942 Waco open-cockpit biplane owned and operated by John Corradi of Blue Ridge Biplane Rides. John is a retired United Airlines Boeing 777 captain with more than 23,000 hours of flight time, who has flown his Waco in the Bealton Flying Circus since 1999. Rides cost $50 for ...

Last year we had the TSS Hudson River Caravan. This year we'll be heading to a Bed-and-Breakfast/Hunting Lodge/Skydiving School/All-around interesting place called Freefall Oz. Using good old-fashion pilotage we'll navigate without aid of ADF, VOR, and GPS to this grass strip located on the border of PA/NY. If you're interested in joining us, contact us at info@tss.org.

TSS has upgraded all of our Garmin GNS-430s to the Garmin GNS-430w -- the new WAAS-certified moving map GPS from Garmin. The GNS-430W is available in N405JH, N7605V, N52126, and N711DA. If you'd like to read more about WAAS, try the WAAS Wikipedia entry.

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