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Airports near Vero Beach, Fla., are recovering from last year’s hurricanes, TCPalm.com reported last week. St. Lucie International sustained $30 million in damages and curtailed operations for about six weeks, but still showed an increase overall in operations for 2004 from the year before. “Our business and corporate traffic continues to increase,” said Airport Director […]

Scott Thurner, 57, of Milwaukee, was flying his Cessna 172 from Laughlin, Nev., to Paonia, Colo., last Wednesday when he crashed in rough terrain about 30 miles from Montrose, Colo. He had reportedly descended to stay below clouds and found himself in a canyon with no way out. Thurner was unhurt, other than minor cuts […]

With the production of thousands of Very Light Jets looming in the next few years, manufacturers of parts for the fleet are gearing up to supply the demand. Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC), in Quebec, is building production lines capable of cranking out its PW600F turbofans at the rate of 1,000 per year, The Hartford […]

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AVmail: Feb 21, 2005Reader mail this week about the FSS contract, armed and disgruntled airline pilots, the Lycoming lawsuit and much more.

_______COLUMNS The Pilot’s Lounge #84: Arrogance, Etiquette And Big Fat Traffic Patterns“Are you going to land here or keep going on downwind into the next county?” It’s painful to be in the pattern behind a pilot who thinks a stabilized final approach in a Cessna means a two-mile final. But just what are the rules […]

It was not the TSA’s finest hour but at least they followed their own rules — according to the TSA. A woman was barred from a Mesa Airlines flight from Phoenix to San Diego on Thursday after she allegedly told a screener that the TSA “couldn’t find a bomb [in her bag] if there was […]

Alan Klapmeier called it correctly. The engaging and unflappable president of Cirrus Design told AVweb at AirVenture 2004 he didn’t expect to sell more airplanes than Cessna last year, even though he was winning the numbers game at the end of the first two quarters. He was almost wrong. Cessna edged Cirrus by only 12 […]

Thanks to the Internet, it’s now not only easier to find parts for your plane, it’s also simpler to make sure you’re not getting something the FAA hasn’t approved. Inventory Locator Service has cross-referenced its database of more than five billion (yes, that’s a B) parts with the FAA’s Part Manufacturer Approval (PMA) system, which […]