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With a booming economy and a rapidly expanding aviation sector, India is finding it tough to fill all of its pilot seats, and extra demands are made on the pilots that are available. Pilots at Air India are assigned to legs as long as 10 hours without relief, a practice that would not be allowed […]

Arizona has hosted some form of the popular Copperstate Fly-In every year for over 30 years, and it has been held at at least six different sites. This year, the change is all about the date, pushing back to later in the fall in hopes of cooler weather. This year’s show will run Thursday through […]

As if the radio frequencies weren’t already busy enough, now pirate radio stations in Florida are interfering with aviation communications. “It’s a nightmare,” Jim Marinitti, president of the Miami Tower branch of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Monday. For the last month, pilots have been hearing hip-hop tunes […]

The directors of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) met in Montreal, Canada, this week to discuss a global strategy for aviation safety. While most of the conference dealt with air-carrier issues, GA concerns were represented by John Sheehan, of the International Council of Aircraft Owner and Pilot Associations (IAOPA). Addressing the conference, Sheehan emphasized […]

The Aviation Subcommittee of the U.S. House traveled to Wichita yesterday to hold a field hearing on economic competitiveness in the aviation industry. Peter Bunce, CEO of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), urged committee members to support GA with tax relief and clarified export rules. He also assured the panel that the introduction of […]

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COLUMNS Motor Head #12: Troubleshooting 101 — Never Give Up, Never SurrenderIt takes patience and tenacity to build an airplane. And a bit of luck and a lot of skill (and help) to do it in less than three weeks. But if you try to rush the troubleshooting when finishing, you may take longer and […]

A story in the March 16 edition concerning John Cox’s report on the dangers posed by electrical fires on aircraft may have left the incorrect impression with readers that the report indicates a greater risk associated with modern fly-by-wire aircraft. The report did not compare fly-by-wire and conventional aircraft in-flight fire risk, Cox told AVweb.