Alexandra Johnson's blog for ASCI202

            Let's face it, I'm a Cessna pilot- anything and everything is hazardous to me. But there's one thing in particular that I encounter more often than any other thing, and that as a pilot-in-training I didn't quite understand the severity of. Today I'm going to talk about clouds.            I think I speak for all kids when I say that at one point, we've looked at a big fluffy cloud and wondered what it would be like to touch it. Or moreover; walk on it. The logistics behind that did not stray me when as an adult learning how to be a pilot I couldn't shake the desire to at least touch it. I waited and waited and waited for IFR training to finally pop the question. And much to my surprise... No, I couldn't just fly through a cumulus in my 172, open the window, and stick my hand out. Turns out that if I flew through one, I would have to deal with the weight of what created that cloud in the first place. And a ...

            Most of us are all pilots here, we understand that without Air Traffic Control the skies would be chaos and aviation would likely be non-existent. According to the USCA, " The first aerodrome to provide an actual air traffic control service was Croydon, south of London. In 1922, after a minor collision between an arriving and a departing aircraft, the aerodrome published a NOTAM in which it was stated that all the pilots had to obtain a sequence number for departure, as well as authorization from the tower for taking off. This authorization was given waving a red flag from the observation tower. Croydon was also pioneer in establishing an aeronautical radio-navigation system and ground-air communications".            To this day, ATC serves as the primary means of navigation to prevent collision and facilitate aircraft take-off, departure, and navigation. They do this by expediting the flow of traffic and ...