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Podcast Index |How to Listen |Subscribe Via RSS NATA president Jim Coyne knows Washington, D.C., having served as a Congressman and as an aviation association head for many years. AVweb asked him to clarify the FAA reauthorization debate and give his insight into other aviation-related hot topics on Capitol Hill. Click here to listen. Brought […]

Buttressing its argument with the negative effect on small business and significant logistical obstacles that prevent the law from fully achieving its goals, AOPA has filed a federal lawsuit against New York state’s pilot criminal background check requirement. More to the point: “This law is unnecessary, discriminatory, anti-business and ineffective,” said AOPA president Phil Boyer, […]

COLUMNS Say Again? #70: Speaking FreelyAVweb’s Don Brown is freed from the confines of the FAA and can speak his mind — and he’s got a lot on his mind, what with massive retirements in ATC, user fees, restructuring and more.

AVweb posts audio news on Mondays, plus a new in-depth interview each Friday. In last Friday’s podcast, you’ll find an interview with Eclipse Aviation CEO Vern Raburn. And AVweb’s podcast index includes interviews with Honda Aircraft’s Jeffrey Smith; Cirrus Design cofounder and CEO Alan Klapmeier; Cessna chairman, president and CEO Jack Pelton; Spectrum Aeronautical chairman […]

HAVE YOU SIGNED UP yet for AVwebs NO-COST twice monthly Business AVflash? Reporting on breaking news, Business AVflash also focuses on the companies, the products and the industry leaders that make headlines in the Business of Aviation. Business AVflash is a must read. Watch for a Business AVflash regular feature, TSA WATCH: GA IN THE […]

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According to data obtained from the FAA by AOPA, there have been 6,658 Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) violations between Sept. 11, 2001, and the end of last month. Broken down even further, 1,632 of these infringements are presidential TFR busts and another 3,254 are due to “Washington, D.C. security-related” breaches, AOPA said. Some 2,672 of […]

Two helicopter pilots, Jennifer Murray and Colin Bodill, took off from Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday on the first leg of a flight that will take them to both the North and South Poles. If they succeed, it will be a first. The two will fly their Bell 407 helicopter through 34 countries and cover […]

Virgin Atlantic is making good on recent promises from CEO Richard Branson to cut emissions of carbon dioxide. Driven by intense consumer concern about global warming in the U.K. and the rest of Europe, Branson has committed billions to research for new biofuels, but also said he’d work to cut consumption right away by reducing […]