A mid-summer trip between Chicago and Kansas City, what could go wrong? The weather at the destination was the main consideration when the go/no go decision was made. Things became very interesting very fast when lower clouds were experienced before getting out of Chicago. Having the XM weather in-op was to be a minor […]
The Chicago Executive Pilots Association (CEPA) Board of Directors meets to discuss the business of the PAPA Scholarship and pilots association organizations. Thank you, Mike Kurgan, General Manager, Atlantic Aviation, for providing us your board room.
We welcome Ryan Schile and Andrew Rice, Certified Professional Controllers (CPC) from O’Hare towers. Last year, on March 1st, the two of them saved a few hundred people from a very bad day, separating an ERJ-145 from a B737-8 who got within 0.23 nm from each other. This won them the coveted President’s Award, aka Archie Award, at […]