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Another major technical foul-up briefly snarled California airspace on Thursday. After suffering a power failure last April and the failure of a radio system (in which the backups failed, too) earlier this year, controllers’ screens went blank at the major Terminal Radar Approach Control center watching over the comings and goings at dozens of airports […]

Any GPS can tell you where you are but Control Vision’s Anywhere Map system tells you where you should be in case your engine quits. Anywhere Map’s “cones of safety” feature has now been patented and it falls under the category of “why didn’t I think of that?” As part of the moving map’s “personal […]

The first Eclipse 500 certification test airplane — complete with new Pratt & Whitney Canada engines — rolled out of the company’s Albuquerque assembly plant on Saturday. The airplane is the first of five flying test beds that will go through the certification process. Other airframes will be used for static and fatigue testing. First […]

Pennsylvania still doesn’t have a law against flying while drunk because Gov. Ed Rendell doesn’t want to spend $6 million on rural transit. Huh? you ask. Well, that’s politics as usual in Harrisburg, where getting things done is apparently an exercise in trickery and one-upmanship. As AVweb told you last month, both state houses had […]

The Canadian Armed Forces has temporarily grounded the Snowbirds air demonstration team after a midair collision killed a pilot and slightly injured another. Capt. Miles Selby died when his CT-114 Tutor jet crashed in a field near Mossbank, Saskatchewan. The other pilot, Capt. Chuck Mallet, was able to eject and is being treated for minor […]

Starting with your next rating or certificate, your pilot’s certificate will sport a new feature. You. In living color. Buried deep in a contentious bill that revamps the U.S.’s intelligence and anti-terrorism posture is a provision requiring pilot certificates to carry the photo of the license holder. The new certificates will also be tamper- and […]

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_______COLUMNS Say Again? #44: Looking For TroubleTrouble can come from an air traffic controller who, like AVweb’s Don Brown, is conscious of all the ways things can go wrong and keeps bothering his supervisors about them. Trouble can also come from a radar system that, apparently, ignores the very traffic a controller (and other pilots) […]

Wichita, Kan., is pondering an ambitious idea being floated by Cessna Chairman Russ Meyer. Meyer wants to convert the company’s massive 21st Street Training Center into likely one of the largest and most capable Boys and Girls Clubs anywhere. Under Meyer’s vision, the 15-acre site would become home to a club to, in the words […]