I believe it is important to remind every member (and anyone else who will listen) why the Chicago Executive Pilots Association exists, and why so many of us belong. CEPA’s mission is to educate and advocate for our members, our airport (KPWK), and the next generation of aviators. I know of course that the order…

You land at a large airport, exit the ample-sized runway on the first taxiway, and contact ground. You’re unfamiliar with the airport but you’ve briefed the airport diagram. Ground gives you a stream of letters that sound to you like someone reading a Scrabble letter tray with a runway crossing and hold short instructions. Hopefully,…

When I got the news that he died in a plane crash last Wednesday, November 22nd, it was the first glimmer of the void I knew it would leave. Warren Bruhl learned to fly at PWK. We lost one of our own and a good friend of mine at that. I met Warren when then…