EVENTS CALENDAR 

Our events calendar is one of the most comprehensive on the Internet for our coverage area.  I don’t mind admitting that it has taken hours and hours of work on my part to accumulate the information and place it on the site.  It is a very comprehensive air events calendar thanks to the efforts of Wayne Gauldin, a reader who lives in Janesville (WI).  This guy must be considered the Air Show Guru.  He has been very helpful to FLY-LOW by sending new and sometimes corrected additions to the FLY-LOW calendar.  Thanks Wayne. 

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As are most websites, we are copyrighted.  Here is what I feel about the FLY-LOW copyright.  If you, as an individual, want to copy material from this website and use it personally or to share with other people (in print or on another website), I have no problem, as long as you use a disclaimer that shows the work and product came from www.fly-low.com.  Sharing of aviation is not a crime; we are in favor of sharing our information with other sources, even our competition.  We don’t charge anyone for the information.  All we ask is a disclaimer that refers the information product as one of ours. 

Now, if you take our product with plans of making lots of money with it… that is another situation all together.  Then we need to talk before you use it.  I have problems with the attitude that if you use my story or picture we’ll sue you.  We want to share our information and photos… we only want those who use it to acknowledge the ownership of the product.  A note that you intend to use it and where is always a nice gesture.  So please use the information you find in FLY-LOW.  Share it with other people… be our guest… help develop an interest in aviation.   

Gray Haired Brigade 

It is disappointing to see most of the pilot association participants and leaders as leaders are also members of AARP.  Just so you’ll know that I am not casting stones an unfamiliar group, I am in the group.  While discussing this dilemma with a friend the other evening, it brought home to me the lack of motivation of those of us in this gray hair brigade.  If we had motivation, we would be bringing the youth into our meetings and right seat rides.  Instead, we become complacent and just hang with our senior citizen buddies.  What is going to happen when we die?  “Who will replace us?” my friend asks.  Who indeed?   

If we don’t bring in more youth to our flying environment, there will be no replacements for you, captain.  No one at all!!!   It could be cost that is keeping the young out, but I think not.  I believe it is the lack of invitations.  If we invite the young to share our wonderful limitless sky, they will enjoy and seek the ability to share it with others.  What is keeping us from bringing the young to the airport and into the right seat?  COMPLACENCY?  Perhaps!  Get it together and do more to provide a teenager a place in the right seat.  INVITE & GO FLYING!!!