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Largest-Ever Airlift Under Way It’s being billed as the largest airlift in U.S. history and it’s bringing relief to tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina’s victims. Operation Air Care swung into high gear over the weekend, with dozens of commercial airliners, flying VFR, bringing tons of food, clothing, medical supplies and other necessities to storm-ravaged […]

As aircraft from the military, Civil Air Patrol and Coast Guard Auxiliary, not to mention dozens of media helicopters, flocked to disaster scenes in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, the FAA had some disasters of its own to cope with. Katrina did serious damage to numerous FAA installations, leaving controllers with little to work with, and, […]

Standard phraseology is the product of years of experience and has been developed to combine precision, brevity, and audibility. … Talk slowly and speak distinctly, do not run words together. Make the listener hear all you say the first time you say it.”That sounds like a quote straight out of the AIM, doesn’t it? It […]

An interesting wrinkle in the carefully refined rules that define Light Sport Aircraft is its “conforming standards” provision. What it all means in the practical world of instrumentation, is glass, glass, glass. Of the thirteen aircraft on display in EAA’s Sport Pilot Mall at Oshkosh 2005, multiple examples incorporated multifunction wonder-boxes placed prominently (dare we […]

General Aviation Security & Public Fears Let’s stop preaching to the choir (NewsWire, July 14). Whenever GA makes the news, listen carefully to the patter coming from those who do not fly. The public instantly forgets the positive stories (i.e., Rutan’s space shot), and yet they easily remember negative reports. I still endure hearing about […]

Each season, the FAA considers adopting a reservation system for IFR operations into such popular destinations as Nantucket, Mass., Aspen, Colo., and other airports with limited facilities and acceptance rates but with high demand. Those restrictions have rarely, if ever, been implemented to restrict or prohibit VFR-only flights. And it appears they won’t again, even […]

Summer finally arrived, so someone stuck up a notice in the Pilot’s Lounge here at the virtual airport that stated we might as well have an airport cookout before Mother Nature changes her mind. On the appointed date the weather cooperated and there was an excellent turnout. It provided an opportunity to chat with some […]

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in Twin & Turbine, Jan. 2004, and is reprinted here by permission. Whether you’re cruising the Rockies or the Appalachians, mountain flying is a spectacular way to enjoy the benefits of an aircraft. Unfortunately, many pilots think of the mountains as a “no-fly zone.” Some aviators go out of […]

Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta has submitted his resignation – what now for user fees? GAO suggests VFR may not yet fit into plans for future airspace; IAOPA’s push for international rules governing UAVs; flight schools fight background checks; charity flight for pediatric neurosurgery may set aviation record; paying $1 billion to accommodate an airplane; FAA […]

The HondaJet will make its public debut at EAA Airventure. The jet, with Honda engines mounted on above-wing pylons, is said to be more efficient and roomier than comparable bizjets… The pilot of a U-2 spy plane died in a crash somewhere in the Middle East Wednesday. The Pentagon refused to say where the plane […]