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ENJOY THE VIEW

OUR CAPACITY FOR WONDER

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just finished reading "Right Seat: Enjoy the View" in Flight
Training (March 2014). Having retired from flying around the
world for United Airlines this past summer after turning 65
years of age, the view from the cockpit is what I really miss.

I have been flying for 49 years. My
solo cross-country was in a Cessna 150 in
South Florida. I pulled banners in a Cub
in Daytona Beach; I have flown a visual
approach in a Cessna 310 into LGA; flown
a polar route to China in a Boeing 777.
It has always been what I see through
the front windows, or as a passenger looking out the side windows-this is what
flying is all about.
Roger Anuskewicz
Barrington, Illinois
Reading Ian Twombly's "Right Seat: Enjoy
the View" put a smile on my face. I am
nearing 50, and can't help feeling like a
kid when I exercise my privilege to fly as
a pilot. I refuse to see through the eyes of
an adult. Thank heavens for the children
in the world-and aviation for keeping my
capacity to wonder intact.
Martín Lozano
San Rafael, California

told, it has happened again and again-little airplanes landing at big military fields,
and the (rare) big airplane squeezing into
a GA runway.
As a CFI, I teach students "the best way
to avoid landing on the wrong runway is
to visually identify all of the runways."
Similarly, "the best way to avoid landing at
a nearby airport is to visually identify all
the nearby airports."
It is pure irony that the graphic on page
48 misidentifies the Cessna Aircraft field
(CEA) as McConnell Air Force base (IAB).
Your circle is drawn around the magenta
airfield at the Cessna plant, just to the
north of the approach end of Runway 19 at
McConnell AFB, which is depicted in blue
on the chart. Please tell me that 100 other
pilots caught this error! It does show how
easily this mistake can be made.
Jim Walters
Littleton, Colorado
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OOPS, WRONG AIRPORT

Great story about "Oops, Wrong Airport"
(February 2014 Flight Training). Truth be

Being an aspiring commercial pilot and
college student can be full of tough decisions. While I sit here wondering which

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