TY - JOUR AB - Arkansas Control Tower. Lewis spoke on the air traffic system The April meeting took in general and addressed what a pilot might be con- plac e at the National cerned with during flight planning. This provided the Weather Service (NWS) of- membership with some insight into the professional- fice in North Little Rock. ism of the pilots in commercial aviation. Lewis, pre- A brief business session viously a commercial pilot, spoke with authority as took place with Chapter President George Wilken dis- to what problems pilots have to cope with, both dur- cussing the topics of upcoming meetings and urging ing flight planning and in flight. the membership to consider presenting a topic of their The session concluded with the presentation of a choice. Chapter member Lawrence Holm volunteered video that traced a typical flight across the United to make a presentation on the Petit Jean Mountain fire, States, showing air traffic facility operations from the as a follow-up to a previous presentation, for the May control tower and air route traffic control center per- meeting. The chapter cookout was announced for June. spectives, as well as what communications take place The chapter meeting for April featured Sonny between TI - chapter news JO - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society DO - 10.1175/1520-0477-82.10.2290 DA - 2001-10-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-meteorological-society/chapter-news-5BEdM5ASxa SP - 2290 EP - 2295 VL - 82 IS - 10 DP - DeepDyve ER -