AVweb Podcast: Monday, June 12, 2006

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • AOPA is working to reduce medical barriers for recreational and sport pilots, while NATCA plans to challenge FAA work rules, and there's new hope for commercial pilots flying past age 60.
  • Safety concerns include flaws found in a Boeing 787 test section, a fatal plane crash into a house, and a 767 engine incident on the ramp, though two also survived a ditching in the Pacific.
  • ADS-B technology is slated for implementation in the Gulf of Mexico.
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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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