Airports and Pilots Book

The author's intent is not to teach flying in this book, although there are many lessons to learn in it, but to honor many of the pilots he flew with and to keep alive the flying spirit in our great country that is being so sorely tested today. At one time I taught an instrument ground school in PHN. I started each of my ground schools with the following statement. ?If you fly instruments in this area, sooner or later you will have icing conditions. If you get ice on a light aircraft you go to a big airport and drive it on the runway.? Over a period of years I had two pilots that attended my ground school, went to small airports and totaled their aircraft. This is why at the start of this book I am again making the above statement. I hope none of you repeat their performance. The sky above, the ground below and a beauty in my hands, the beauty of course is the aircraft of our choice.