DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: Tips for flight amid thunderstorms

The past week’s thunderstorms chased pilots from the skies.

DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: Tech problems? Try old-fashioned tools

Technology is a big part of the piloting experience today. My good friend, fellow pilot and Boonville native Ben Trout, likes to say we used to get to our destination in spite of our technology. Today, we get there because of it.

DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: Observation key to training prospective pilots

As the pilot examiner, there is a good chance I have never seen the applicant before test day. I know nothing about them except what is in their logbook. The performance I am about to judge is just going to be a snapshot of their skills.

DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: Ash affects military flights

One thing you can get pilots to agree on is: a successful flight is conducted only with the assent of Mother Nature. Thunderstorms, fog, ice, turbulence, and this past week, volcanic ash, keep even the biggest and most sophisticated aircraft on the ground. 

DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: Weather can stall flight plans

Publicly, pilots praise the time-saving virtues of flying.  But in private, they have a saying:  “If you have time to spare, go by air.”  That was certainly the dilemma I found myself in last week.

DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: FAA's antidepressants ruling is right move

Randy Babbittt, Federal Aviation Administration administrator, has announced a landmark change in pilot medical certification rules:  The FAA will now allow pilots to take one of four antidepressant drugs and keep their medical certificate.

Wilmsmeyer signs softball letter at CMU

New Franklin senior Melanie Wilmsmeyer inked a national letter of intent Thursday afternoon in softball with Central Methodist University in Fayette.

DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: Student's antics serve as learning experience

Columnist David Bradley, the longtime manager at Boonville's Jesse P. Viertel Memorial Airport, recalls a harrowing experience with a student pilot.


DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: Automated weather system will aid pilots

At its last meeting, the Boonville City Council awarded a contract for the installation of a new automated weather observing system at Jesse P. Viertel Memorial Airport.

DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: Experience key to pilot-training debate

Quantity or quality?  That is the title of the argument occurring in the aviation industry today. 

DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: Board works hard on airport plan

On Tuesday, City Council held its second monthly meeting. In this meeting the council approved the Jesse P. Viertel Airport Master Plan.

DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: My pet peeves about pilots

The Airplane Owners and Pilots Association has announced its new lineup of safety seminars. One such seminar coming to Missouri has me interested. “Ten Things Other Pilots Do Wrong” is the title, and it will be presented in St. Louis and Springfield in April.

DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: Scenario training helps pilots

I was a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps, just home from Vietnam, in March of 1970.

DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: Marshall flight museum details history

On the second Sunday of each month, the Daniel Boone Flying Club assembles for some sort of aviation activity. It might be a ground school, flying refreshers or a field trip.

DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: Planning key to post-storm flight

Start early and stay late. That is necessary to do any flight instruction in the weather we have experienced this past week. During the snowstorm, and the high winds on the backside of the low, the airport was a ghost town. The winds whistled through the planes parked on the ramp. Blowing snow reduced visibility to a quarter-mile.

DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: 2010 brings hope for aviation

It is a new year. 2009 and the decade of the “aughts” are gone.

COLUMN: Christmastime snowfall brings magic to Boonville

It is Friday afternoon, the end of the work week — time for my commute from Columbia to Boonville. Time to turn on some music in the car and shake off the pressures of the office. Time to take off the mask of smiles and pleasantries I must wear in my professional life. Time to go home, where I can be myself, grouchy and irascible.

DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: Winter storms hamper airplane flights

Winter has come to mid-Missouri.

COLUMN: Janice Bradshaw conducts stellar Christmas concert in Boonville

Janice Bradshaw has done it again.  On Monday night at Thespian Hall, she engineered the annual community Christmas concert, and it was a rousing success.

DAVID BRADLEY | ABOVE BOONVILLE: Winter flights challenging, rewarding

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has changed its winter forecast.

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