• 2025 CEPA Holiday Party

    Priester Aviation 1061 S Wolf Rd, Wheeling, IL, United States

    Mark your calendar, save the date. We will be gathering to celebrate the Holiday Season and the end of another great year for our Chicago Executive Pilots’ Association. CEPA has presented Safety Programs, given scholarships and provided airport information to our members. Now it’s time to get together to enjoy each other's company, have a […]

  • 7 Times Lucky – How to Survive a Low-Altitude Engine Failure (Hopefully)

    Harper College 1375 S Wolf Road, Prospect Heights, IL, United States

    Join CFI Daniel Feldman for an exploration of low-altitude engine failures and the lessons he has learned after seven of them.   Speaker Bio: Daniel Feldman is a CFI Sport with more than 3,500 hours of dual given and over 5,000 total flight hours. He is the owner of Foxtrot Aero, which specializes in light […]

  • Flight Following Or Go Rogue?

    Harper College 1375 S Wolf Road, Prospect Heights, IL, United States

    You take off for your VFR one-hour cross-country. You're about to head into a TRSA, so you call for flight following. It's crazy hot and bumpy, so you tell them your destination, and you are climbing to 8,500 feet. Unfortunately, that's not what ATC has in mind. They say maintain at or below 3000'.  Whoa! […]