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The NTSB on Tuesday asked the FAA to require turbine-powered helicopters that carry six or more passengers to be equipped with a terrain awareness and warning system. “It is well past time for the benefits from these standard safety devices to be made available to passengers on helicopter transports as they are on fixed-wing planes,” […]

Don’t blame lax security on the theft of a Cessna 182 from Marana Airport in Arizona last week. To get the plane airborne and headed for Mexico, the thief had to defeat keypad access, a padlock on the hangar and the plane’s own locks… The FAA is looking at new routes over New Jersey to […]

This article originally appeared in IFR Refresher, April 2005. When we depart on an instrument flight we expect that the journey will progress normally to our intended destination. That, of course, is not a realistic expectation, as anybody at the NTSB can tell you. Because the chance of something going wrong is always there, we […]

It used to be that kids not happy with things at home would run away and join the circus. Nowadays, they grab the keys to the old man’s Mooney and fly away to Mexico. At least, that’s what two California teens would have done if there’d been gas in the plane, according to police in […]

Security measures have increased at airports around the country in the last few years, with fences, cameras and I.D. badges required in places that once were open to all — yet it seems that small airplanes still are not protected from thievery. Last year, 11 GA aircraft were stolen and 68 were burglarized, according to […]

The Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer launched successfully at 7:22 Wednesday morning from Kennedy Space Center on a planned 80-hour, 26,000-mile jaunt around the world, plus. The aim is to fly the longest nonstop non-refueled distance ever in an aircraft. On takeoff, pilot Steve Fossett passed the 8,000-foot mark on the runway where he had hoped to […]

The airspace over Washington, D.C., will be pretty much shut down to GA operations from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Jan. 31, during President Bush’s State of the Union address to Congress. AOPA says the restriction covers 3,000 square miles, and notes that airlines are not affected, and neither are cars and trucks, “which […]

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A Connecticut man pleaded guilty Monday in a New York court to stealing an airplane last June and flying it while drunk. He will spend less than a year in jail… Ballistic Recovery Systems has received a Supplemental Type Certificate from the FAA for a ballistic recovery system for the Symphony SA 160… GlobalFlyer is […]

The FAA has established a Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) to accommodate unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flights by the U.S. Customs Border Patrol near Nogales, Ariz., along the Mexican border. “The unexpected, immediate implementation of this TFR raises concerns that the FAA and the Department of Homeland Security have not taken into consideration the impact that […]