SAN BRUNO, CA - On a clear Sunday morning in December, at national cemeteries in all 50 states, a grateful nation paid homage to its fallen heroes by laying a Christmas wreath on their tombstone. Various veterans groups, local residents, families and Civil Air Patrol Squadrons took part in the Wreaths Across America campaign whose mission is to Remember, Honor and Teach.
BYRON, CA - On Sunday, December 4’th, Cadets and Senior members from Squadrons 18 and 188 flew in gliders at Byron Airport.
Today, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 2011, our Nation will pause to honor America’s Veterans and celebrate their contributions to our way of life. Few have given more to our Nation than the men and women who have served in our Armed Forces in peace and in war. At 11:00 am, 93 years have passed since the armistice that ended World War I, and the unforgotten horridness of 39 Million Allied and Central Powers soldiers KIA, WIA, and MIA.
OAKLAND, CA - I started off Sunday, Sept 4 having already attended the Group5 SAREX in Sacramento with 1st Lt Doug Perreira the day before. Capt Frank Riebli, 1st Lt Patrick Bitz and I were planning to fly a training and technology development mission out in the Central Valley.
1st Lt Louie Rivas
Assistant Public Affairs Officer and Mission Pilot
Amelia Earhart Senior Squadron 188
California Wing
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - San Francisco Fleet Week, the annual event celebrating the sea services is a very popular event in the Bay Area. It’s a weeklong event held on the marina green and wharfs along the bay and consists among other things, air shows by the Blue Angels, the Royal Canadian Airforce Snowbirds, and various aerobatic pilots.
The California Wing Mission Pilot School (MPS) was an excellent weekend of flying and training.
It was a chance to fly with more seasoned mentor pilots -- all of whom gave up their weekend just to sit in the right seat and teach us -- to get more exposure to a busy base operation (with 13 planes flying multiple sorties each day), and to work with ground teams.
Welcome to the newly renamed Squadron 188 Newsletter: The Logbook. This actually isn't a renaming, it's a renaming of the newsletter back to the original name that was established on 1 September 1989 (Vol.1 No. 1).
A solid deck of clouds hung over Livermore Airport on Saturday morning. The group of Civil Air Patrol cadets looked toward the eastern horizon where the weather was starting to break. It was from this direction too that they hoped to see the approach of one of the familiar red, white and blue single engine aircraft that the Civil Air Patrol flies in its search and rescue and emergency services mission.
Andrew Dilworth, Capt, CAP
Director of Standards and Evaluation
Group 2
California Wing
Having been a full-time flight instructor for nearly 10 years now, I have seen the many ways in which pilots negotiate the normal approach-to-land maneuver from the abeam position
