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Pilots, Businesses, Officials Learn To Cope… Nancy Lynn, an aerobatic instructor out of Bay Bridge Airport in Maryland — and inside the D.C. ADIZ — told AVweb that on March 8 she waited 90 minutes for an open phone line to the Potomac TRACON to obtain the clearance and code required to fly from her […]

Life In The ADIZ Pilots, Businesses, Officials Learn To Cope… Nancy Lynn, an aerobatic instructor out of Bay Bridge Airport in Maryland — and inside the D.C. ADIZ — told AVweb that on March 8 she waited 90 minutes for an open phone line to the Potomac TRACON to obtain the clearance and code required […]

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1. VFR “over the top” flight is permitted under the OTT (Over The Top) visual flight rules, which also requires a separate rating on Canadian pilot certificates if they are not already IFR rated (or have been in the past). U.S. pilots who do not have an instrument rating should not expect to be able […]

Flying in Canada is just different enough from flying in the U.S. to make it a learning experience, and similar enough to make it comfortable. Canada’s aviation heritage is like a vein whose branches nourish virtually every facet of the diverse country’s social, business and even political life. To a large degree, aviation built Canada, […]

The Fight To Stay In Business WMU Consolidates Aviation Programs… Western Michigan University (WMU) — which has held contracts with British Airways, Aer Lingus, Emirates Airlines and European Pilot Selection and Training, and is one of the largest aviation colleges in the U.S. — is giving up on its foreign pilot training program. At WMU, […]

Brave New World Yesterday, while flying near the Washington ADIZ, Com radio 1 on the local CTAF and 2 on 121.5, I heard the following, in a clearly synthesized voice with an oddly foreign accent: “Aircraft approaching Washington Air Defense Identification Zone! Turn away! Shiply(sic)!” Ah, brave new world! Richard Matlick Airline Training Academy Your […]

Cirrus Launches Safety Study I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts that the results of the upcomming Cirrus study will be inconclusive.Having said that, I’ll make the same bet again by stating that the real cause of most if not all of those accidents, is over-confidence caused by color moving map displays and other modern electronic […]

Unless you’re looking at one of Paul Bowen’s beautiful and instructive photographs, wake turbulence is an invisible enemy. We’ve all heard about it in ground school and we’ve all read the news reports about wake turbulence encounters — proven or suspected — but what is it that makes this hazard so hard to track and […]

Opposition Grows To Security Rule Revocation Rule Unconstitutional?… Pressure is mounting on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to change the controversial rule that allows it to unilaterally force the suspension and revocation of any airman’s certificate (mechanics are also subject to the rule). Currently, the only appeal is to the TSA. Don Young (R-Ala.), chairman […]