AVIATE. NAVIGATE. COMMUNICATE. The cardinal rules for dealing with an emergency were the furthest thing from my mind on a warm, clear Saturday morning. I was taxiing a Cessna Aerobat to my assigned taxiway at the DuPage County Airport (DPA) in west suburban Chicago for an hour of sky dancing.The airplane was owned by a flying club with a half-dozen Cessnas. I was a perennial renter of acrobatic birds wherever I could find one in good shape, and at that moment the Aerobat filled the bill.
展开▼