In my last blog I noted how the air is almost always hazy in the West these days, even in open space hundreds of miles away from urban areas.  One of the reasons I notice this is that I am a private pilot and and you notice haze more from up there.  The Grand Canyon Trust just posted a piece on a pilots group out of Aspen that takes advantage of their general aviation planes to show  the conservation issues facing national parks in the Southwest to folks, particularly students, from the air.  Cool.  It’s part of  what is called EcoFlight’s Flight Across America.  . . . more>>