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The FAA has settled a lawsuit in which a white male worker at the agency’s William J. Hughes Technical Center, in Atlantic City, N.J., alleged that he was repeatedly passed over for promotion during his 28-year career while the positions he applied for were given to less-qualified minority and female applicants. Michael Ryan will be […]

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_______COLUMNS As the Beacon Turns #82: A Review to RememberThe FAA says a flight review can be conducted mostly at the discretion of the CFI, but that means you could get anything from a “checkride” to a pencil-whipped joyride. AVweb’s Michael Maya Charles has a better way — a way to help the pilot remember […]

It depends on how you define your “firsts” but a celebration of one Canadian aviation milestone in Goderich, Ontario, has raised an issue of clarity among the relatives of some aviation pioneers in British Columbia. The town of Goderich is planning an event next August to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first flight of […]

The test for development of new aircraft appears to be how much governments are willing to ante up. Earlier this week, Bombardier and Airbus both said they were going to the public trough to fund the creation of new products. And in Canada’s Ottawa, there appear to be sympathetic ears. Canada’s Industry Minister David Emerson […]

You can now get an N-number for your ultralight or homebuilt but, ironically, it would mean you can’t fly it. The conundrum comes as various parts of the massive Light Sport/Sport Pilot implementation process fail to synchronize in the creation of the new aircraft class. According to EAA, the part of the FAA that deals […]

That shiny new Garmin G1000 in your panel (new production Cessna, Mooney, and Diamond aircraft — just to name a few — all have a G1000 option) might as well be a DVD player until you get it checked for some capacitors that may have been installed backward. Garmin issued an “urgent notice” to owners […]

They still don’t know what caused the fire that destroyed the Yankee Air Museum at Ypsilanti, Mich., last week but there are some grim truths surfacing about the future of the institution. For instance, it’s estimated it will cost $5.5 million just to replace the hangar that housed the collection of more than 13,000 aviation […]