AVweb Podcast: Monday, June 12, 2006

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • Aviation organizations are actively addressing pilot medical requirements, age limits, and challenging FAA work rules.
  • New aviation technology, ADS-B, is expanding its coverage to the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Several aviation safety incidents and concerns were reported, including flaws in a Boeing 787 test section, a successful ditching, a fatal plane crash, and an engine failure on a 767.
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AOPA seeks to reduce medical barriers for recreational and sport pilot candidates; NATCA plans to “fight” the FAA until work rules are overturned; two survive a ditching in the Pacific; ADS-B is coming to the Gulf of Mexico; there’s new hope for commercial pilots who plan to fly past age 60; a fuel tanker driver may have saved hundreds of lives; a student buzzed his school; flaws are found in a Boeing 787 test section; pilots killed when plane hits house; and a 767’s engine turned to shrapnel on the ramp. Hear these stories and more in today’s podcast … .

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