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Here it is the first day of May. It’s hard to believe it’s here already. The daffodils are done. The azaleas are blooming and it’s time to put the tomato seedlings in the ground. What? You wanted me to write an article about emergencies? You meant “MAYDAY!” huh? It just goes to show you how […]

Maybe you can see forever, on a clear day, but it’s getting harder and harder to fly there — especially for GA pilots, who have to avoid 16 security-related TFRs scattered from coast to coast and “pop-up” TFRs that follow President Bush everywhere he goes. EAA complained last week that presidential TFRs in Ohio created […]

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Guns in the Cockpit While reader Boney’s hypothesis [AVmail April 20] can’t be disproven (that’s the neat thing about hypotheses), the U.S. score at this point in the terrorist war is Suicidal Terrorists 19, Suicidal Pilots 0 for fatal cockpit insurrections. In the case of a single, armed pilot, the probability is at least 50% […]

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TSA Says No To Michigan’s Pilot Law… The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is the latest to say Michigan’s pilot background check law is illegal. The agency recently told AOPA, which is fighting the Michigan law in court, that individual states have no authority to require pilot background security checks and that power lies solely with […]

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Chelton System Gets First TSO… A company in Boise, Idaho, has registered the first milestone on the Highway In The Sky. Chelton Flight Systems was recently granted a technical standard order (TSO) for its synthetic vision Electronic Flight Information System. That means anyone can install this panel-of-the-future technology, which provides nearly every conceivable type of […]

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ADIZ Flight Plans I just returned from Sun-N-Fun this weekend. Coming from Raleigh, N.C., to Hyannis, Mass., the handling of the ADIZ flight plans was cumbersome and does not, in my opinion, add any level of extra security to the area. Our experience was as follows: Sunday (April 6) at 12:00 called 1-800-WX BRIEF, was […]