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Near as we can tell, Jack Pelton hasn’t broken any laws, lied, cheated or stolen anything or done anything that thousands of people don’t do quite legally every day. But the Cessna CEO’s job could still be on the line after a 60 Minutes segment on his alma mater, Hamilton University. The news program noted […]

Lt. Col. Scott Neumann, a test pilot and the deputy commander of the 412th Operations Group at Edwards Air Force Base, took the right seat of a 737 during an emergency diversion of the Los Angeles-bound airliner last week. The pilot headed for Colorado Springs to get medical help for the original co-pilot, who apparently […]

_______COLUMNS Say Again? #43: All Points BulletinAir Traffic Bulletins written for controllers may not seem important to a pilot, until you see one that starts, “A fatal aircraft crash …” AVweb’s Don Brown spends some time this month with a few points made for the benefit of controllers and, he hopes, pilots too.

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There aren’t many places you can have this much leading-edge, high-tech fun and help restore a priceless piece of aviation history too. The Commemorative Air Force is unveiling its P-51 Mustang “Tuskegee Airmen” flight simulator at the Mall of America in St. Paul, Minn., today. The simulator will be set up at ACES Flight Simulation […]

Well, don’t get the hankies out yet. 121.5 megahertz — the longtime distress frequency for emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) — is on its way out, but the funeral is not till 2009. The new frequency is 406 MHz, and it’s more precise, more reliable, and less prone to interference from false signals, such as from […]

Feeling blue that with November here, winter is not far behind? Grounded pilots have a good excuse to spend their time playing video games when they can’t get a real flight fix. A study of cadets in the Israeli Air Force flight school showed that a game-playing group performed better in real-life flying tests than […]

As technology marches on, some are bound to get stepped upon, but a Colorado company says it’s doing its best to ease the pain some of its aircraft telephone customers are feeling. AirCell built its earlier systems around the analog cellphone networks that used to be the norm for ground-based cellphones. But now, most cellphones […]

The Canadian Transportation Safety Board is trying to figure out why the drive belt came off a Robinson R-22 helicopter, resulting in a crash that killed its pilot in August. The chopper suffered the “sudden loss of power” over a lake on Vancouver Island. Spokesman Bill Yearwood said that although the pilot initiated autorotation, he […]