Over the weekend I was able to attend an FAA / WINGS presentation at the Dowagiac Airport (C91) on the South Bend Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) and Airspace & Services they provide.

Dowagiac is a smaller Michigan airport  so they do not have the ability to really clean the runway of snow and ice so I drove over rather than flew.

For non-pilots:  FAA = Federal Aviation Administration which is part of  the  Department of Transportation. The WINGS Pilot Proficiency Program is the FAA’s recurrent training program for general aviation (GA) pilots. The bottom-line mission of WINGS is fairly simple which is to reduce the number of GA accidents. To accomplish that objective, WINGS employs an assortment of targeted education and training opportunities to help pilots apply the principles of aviation risk assessment and risk management.

Did I mention they also usually have Free Coffee and Donuts for attendees 🙂

As a side note, one of my old skydiving and flying buddies has a hanger at the Dowagiac  airport so a few of us dropped over to check out his Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) that he is in the process of building.