GPS is always available right? Hundreds of commercial flights were cancelled last night.  It’s always good to practice the basics like Pilotage and VOR navigation.  Keep this a minor inconvenience and review your flight instruction! https://sapt.faa.gov/raim-summaries.php

I’m sure many of you have wondered what happen to the newsletter.  If the is truth to be known,  I lost my discipline to get one out every month even though I know newsletters are important for communicating to members…

Quad City Aviation Director – Ben Leischner has been improving facilities to encourage more General Aviation at our airport.   Stay tuned for updates.   This was taken on May 4th, 2019 and it is still a work in progress.  

Through a lot of effort by Quad City International Airport’s Aviation Director, Ben Leischner, and strong encouragement from our club president Jim Goetsch, we now have self-service fuel at prices that will be among the lowest around, if not the…

Floods from above: Pilot says flood damage is becoming more frequent

                  New Member Joe Aziz joined the club in February.  He is being instructed by Chip Knuckey.  Joe recently finished his residency at the University of Iowa and has moved to the…

Our annual club-wide meeting is being held on Saturday, April 14th at 10am.  We, as usual, will hold the meeting in the Civil Air Patrol building.  However, the building that we met in last year has been demolished, and the…

Dave received his instrument rating November 2017.  He was instructed by Josh Brooks.  I apologize for taking so long to get this piece of news out, but several things conspired to prevent that from happening.  Dave joined the club last…

John recently, December 2, passed his currency test under the instruction of Dean Jones.  He had joined just this past August.  He had not flown for 38 years, so regaining his proficiency with 10 hours of ground school and 15…