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Representatives from GA’s alphabet groups met with Department of Homeland Security honchos this week to discuss various security regulations and their impact on GA flyers. Adm. James Loy, deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Rear Adm. David Stone, head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), attended the meeting. AOPA sent President […]

The FAA should do a better job monitoring designated flight-test examiners, inspectors, and doctors who give FAA medical exams to pilots, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released Tuesday. The GAO, displaying a remarkable grasp of the obvious, said the FAA is inconsistent in the way it oversees the 13,400 individuals […]

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_______COLUMNS As the Beacon Turns #83: TFRs Again & AgainBeen caught in a TFR yet? It may be just a matter of time, unless you work hard to avoid them. And why do we have to work so hard? Why can’t we find them all in one, easy step? AVweb’s Michael Maya Charles has hints […]

The dream of reviving a timeless aircraft design appears over for Missouri-based Renaissance Aircraft. The company, which was planning to produce an updated and souped-up version of the Luscombe 8F, announced Friday that it has abandoned the venture and will pull out of Cape Girardeau, Mo., within 30 days. The project was dogged from the […]

In Canada, where aircraft owners pay a $60 yearly fee to the privately owned airspace manager Nav Canada, an Ontario pilot is fighting the charges — and could lose his two homebuilt aircraft because of it. Otto Stanat says he never uses Nav Canada services because he always flies from uncontrolled fields and never strays […]

At the heart of the issue, the NTSB is suggesting the FAA isn’t properly reporting incursions and is calling for installation of anti-incursion warning systems at major airports, and pressing its point with a highly publicized — and well animated — August near-collision at LAX recently shown on TV news channels. But a less sensational, […]

Powered by a supersonic combustible ramjet (and an equally powerful media machine) NASA is turning the spotlight back on itself on Monday. After a brief (and perhaps unaccustomed) period in the shadows of the Paul Allen / Burt Rutan / SpaceShipOne show, NASA will grab some limelight this week by trying to make an “airplane” […]