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https://avweb.com/avmail/ Reader mail this week about user fees, thrust reversers, wake turbulence and more.

AIRMANSHIP The Weather WizardsMore and more pilots are getting weather information from the Web before they call Flight Service — and that information is getting more detailed and more accurate all the time. Mike Haenggi has the story of who is doing the aviation weather research and what is coming next. ___________WHAT’S NEW February 2006AVweb’s […]

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COLUMNS Say Again? #59: Dear ChipOn January 1, 2006, Warren “Chip” Jones replaced Don Brown as the Facility Safety Representative of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) at Atlanta Center. Don will continue his work as a Safety Representative for NATCA while he prepares for his upcoming retirement. Don’s column this month is his […]

New Jersey Rep. Steven Rothman says the FAA will regret it if the agency continues to stand in the way of local authorities who want to curb flights into Teterboro Airport. “If the FAA were to punish the Port Authority for taking any of these actions, I would use every ounce of strength I had, […]

An orbit change by one of two satellites providing Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) signals for precision GPS approaches could result in the vertical component of those signals being unavailable at times in the next couple of months. According to AOPA, when the move is finished, WAAS service will be lost to a couple of […]

An explosion of low-cost carriers and a shortage of viable flight schools is behind a pilot shortage that has forced some airlines to ground aircraft and even cancel flights in India. According to Rediff.com, the country will need about 3,500 pilots in the next five years and domestic schools are only producing about 100 a […]