Ever since I was a baby, I’ve loved aviation, and today, I finally took control of a plane for the first time. I booked a one hour discovery flight at Van Nuys airport. I sadly didn’t get to takeoff because it’s the busiest GA airport in the world. We did a rolling expedited departure and once we got up I took controls up until we were about to land. I also got to taxi! Well.. here are the photos
Neither of are correct, actually - the busiest GA airport in America is Phoenix’s Deer Valley Airport. There’s no data I can find on the busiest globally, but it’s definitely not Van Nuys by this metric.
I enjoyed reading about your experience. Being at the controls for the first time is unforgettable!
Wow, fascinating Deer Valley Airport is the busiest and 4 of the top 10 are in Arizona (I learned to fly at one of those, but at a time when I was oblivious to such details).
(Also, Deer Valley is one of the centers of the global avionics industry, oddly descending from the lineage of the GE mainframe industry with a key original design engineer having been Steven Spielberg’s father when the future film producer was still practicing with home movie cameras - my dad worked there)
Fair. I wasn’t putting it out there as irrefutable evidence, I just thought it was funny. Although I didn’t know that about Google’s AI, so that’s good to know
Absolutely valid to point that out. I’ve been getting to the point where I go back and forth between the AI’s to consider what I’m really willing to believe (I’m in particular frustrated with copilot recently.)
I took the copilot result above and put it back into google, stating that copilot “thinks you’re wrong”. This was Google’s new result (so each of us has to judge in the end…as humans )
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