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AVmail: September 19, 2005Reader mail this week about user fuel prices, user fees, huricane relief and much more.

NEWS FEATURES Katrina: The GA ResponseWhen Hurricane Katrina left the Gulf Coast devastated, general-aviation aircraft and pilots were there to help. AVweb reports on what has been done so far and what else we can do. _____________WHAT’S NEW What’s New For SeptemberThis month AVweb’s survey of the latest products and services for pilots, mechanics and […]

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While Katrina is now a middle item, at best, on the evening news, there is still much work to be done in the Gulf Coast area and GA continues to do its share. While most of the GA activity involves short hops into the affected areas with supplies and back out with refugees, pilots have […]

To his colleagues, he’s Frank Ferrante, photocopier repairman. But on weekends, he’s Trapdoor, the flight leader of a flight of five F-14s from the famed VF-103 Jolly Rogers squadron, yankin’ and bankin’ over the desert expanses of Nellis Air Force Base. Or, at least what Nellis looks like on the screens inside a nondescript industrial […]

Dade County will receive $2.5 million in damages and restitution to help cover the costs of fuel thefts, inflated contractor bills and various other forms of corruption that occurred at the Miami International Airport’s (MIA) fuel farm. Up to 30,000 gallon of jet fuel per month were stolen and sold on the black market while […]

A former flight instructor who allegedly thought that threatening to crash a Piper Cherokee into New Zealand’s tallest building was the way to win back his estranged wife’s heart is in hospital in Auckland, N.Z., after a two-hour drama that ended Saturday with the Cherokee crashing in the water 150 feet from a downtown beach. […]

Cessna’s long-time training partner FlightSafety International will provide initial type training for customers of the new Mustang “personal” jet. FlightSafety will operate simulator and classroom sessions at training centers in Wichita and Farnborough, England. Cessna spokesman Roger Whyte said the large number of European customers made the English center necessary. Each school will have a […]

Stanley Kubrick couldn’t have scripted anything more eerie than the real-life odyssey of a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 that seemed hell-bent on crashing itself on a trip from Perth to Kuala Lumpur last Aug. 1. According to The Australian newspaper, the Malaysian flight crew had to literally battle for control of the aircraft after something […]