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An Oregon pilot made sure American troops knew the Sun ‘n Fun crowd was thinking about them. Dean Zinter, of Portland, collected signatures on two signs at the Florida fly-in’s warbird area. Thousands of people added their names to the signs, which will be sent to a Marine aviation unit in the United Arab Emirates… […]

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Continental Crankshaft Failure Just to let you know we have had a crankshaft failure on a Continental IO-520 factory rebuild with 230 hours on the engine. This could be something to watch as we wait results from Continental on cause.Dan KlaesBettles Air Chicago VFR Corridor I’m sure that the FAA is not happy about being […]

Midweek Opening Thins Crowds If we had to pick one word to describe the mood at Sun ‘n Fun’s opening day on Wednesday, April 2, it would be: tentative. What with war jitters and a soft economy looming, we didnt expect to see record crowds and we generally didn’t. A couple of exhibitors told us […]

This article appeared in the January 2002 edition of Aviation Safety and is reprinted here by permission. Aircraft components are tested and retested. Manufacturers are subjected to inspection, airplanes are inspected, mechanics are inspected. The goal: Nothing mechanical should go wrong without plenty of warning.There is one part that bucks that trend. When called on, […]

Hijack Transponder Rule Panned So, instead of labelling the proposed new transponder’s “panic” buttons in the normal way, perhaps they should label them the “Please shoot me down” button. Only a suicidal pilot these days would deliberately squawk a “hijack” code, right? George Horn US Military May Degrade GPS Signal This article indicates that the […]

No doubt about it, pilots are a special breed.And after a day of reading accident reports — which I do without fail at least once a month — I sometimes suffer from the impression that they’re highly motivated, well-trained, steely-eyed idiots. I’ll concede that this is a cynical, over-the-top generalization but when you read about […]

Chicago Gets A TFR Of Its Own… …Alphabets Are Angry, But Daley Is Delighted EAA Executive Vice President Bob Warner said, “Department of Homeland Security [DHS] officials had stated that they would not introduce more widespread restrictions unless intelligence points to a specific target or credible threat. We call on the FAA and DHS to […]

Money Makes The World… Congress To Decide On Next Four Years Of FAA Funding… Tuesday, the Bush administration’s four-year funding plan for the FAA, known as the Centennial of Flight Aviation Authorization Act (Flight-100), went off to Congress. “Flight-100 will help increase capacity and efficiency throughout our aviation system,” DOT Secretary Norman Mineta said in […]

More from our If Only file… The comm radio failed again while practicing instrument approaches. After restoring communications… Cessna 12345: “Approach, Cessna 12345 is going to break off the approach, procede VFR to (uncontrolled home field), and kick this radio down the stairwell.” Controller, “Cessna 12345, approved, squawk VFR. After a short pause, “Will that […]