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AVmail: October 24, 2005Reader mail this week about how old (or young) pilots should be, how much flying costs and much more.

_______COLUMNS CEO of the Cockpit #50: On Their ShouldersThere aren’t many from the Greatest Generation left — people and planes — to remind young folks what flying was like back then … and what it was like to leave home at a young age to fight halfway around the world. AVweb’s CEO of the Cockpit […]

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A full-grown moose can weigh up to 1,000 pounds, so if one wanders across a runway while you are landing your Cessna 172, that’s not a good thing. The Wasilla Airport, about 40 miles north of Anchorage, has found a solution — an electric anti-moose mat. The Electro-Mat, which was first tested against deer in […]

If you need an extra enticement to go ahead and buy yourself a shiny new airplane before the year’s out, some of the GA manufacturers are ready to give you that excuse. Diamond Aircraft is offering free fuel and free maintenance for up to two years on new and demonstrator DA40 Diamond Stars bought before […]

Pilot William Buchmann and skydiver Albert Wing were known to indulge in games of “chicken,” local police have told the FAA. Wing was killed in April when Buchmann, who was flying the jump plane, collided with him near the Deland, Fla., airport. Buchmann’s certificate was revoked by the FAA in August. The FAA said he […]

An airplane was landing, an airport worker was driving a pickup truck, and somehow the two collided … not much else is clear yet in the incident that took place at Cable Airport in Upland, Calif., on Wednesday morning. The airplane hit the driver’s side of the truck. The pilot was not hurt, but the […]

EAA last week chimed in with its views on the FAA’s Flight Plan 2006-2010, an annually revised blueprint that charts the agency’s strategy. In a letter to FAA Administrator Marion Blakey, EAA President Tom Poberezny stressed that any hint of switching to a user-fee-based funding mechanism was unwelcome. “We are patently opposed to a replacement […]

Engine Components Inc. , of San Antonio, Texas, said last week it is in “complete disagreement” with a proposed Airworthiness Directive published by the FAA earlier this month that would affect some ECi connecting rods used in GA aircraft engines. The FAA’s concern began with an in-flight failure of the engine in a Cessna 172 […]