Slip Sliding Away, Part 1

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How often in business aviation have you found yourself at a small county airport with a fresh coating of snow? Obviously at large metropolitan airports the field maintenance crews would have been out there during the night clearing the runway, but runway clearing duties sometimes seem to take a...
Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.

Upon his retirement as a non-routine flight operations captain from a fractional operator in 2015, Dr. Veillette had accumulated more than 20,000 hours of flight experience in 240 types of aircraft—including balloons, rotorcraft, sea planes, gliders, war birds, supersonic jets and large commercial transports. He is an adjunct professor at Utah Valley University.

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