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Common in reviews of flashy new flat-panel cockpit displays (and frequently voiced among those who remember piston airliners) is the notion that while Technicolor screens should be easier to use and generally better-suited for communicating information, they don’t seem to be. Science has stepped in to shed some light on this apparent contradiction, which, if […]

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_______COLUMNS Say Again? #42: The Mysterious D-SideThe D-side isn’t the song on the back of the C-side record … it’s an air traffic controller who uses brains rather than eyes to keep track of planes. A data controller can be the best friend a radar controller (and a pilot) ever had, but due to policy […]

Pilots who frequent a Washington State airport known as an incubator of grass-roots aviation say it’s on the verge of losing its innocence. Arlington Airport (among the first to have dedicated facilities for ultralights and sure to be a Sport Pilot hotbed) could soon be filled periodically with the Gulfstreams, Challengers, Citations and Hawkers of […]

Two Cessnas became a biplane near Cincinnati on Sunday, but the results could have been a lot worse. In fact, all three occupants of the two planes, a 172 and a 152, survived the ensuing crash-landing with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police. Both planes were reportedly doing touch-and-goes at Cincinnati West Airport when the landing […]

It’s not often that GA topics rate an editorial in the mainstream press, let alone in a college newspaper, but even the editor of the Columbia Chronicle, the student newspaper at Chicago’s Columbia College, was moved enough by the ongoing saga of Meigs Field to put fingers to keyboard. Now, Managing Editor Kristen Menke doesn’t […]

Authorities are investigating how an airplane mechanic was killed after an unoccupied Cessna 172 “started on its own” and crashed into another aircraft at the airport in Grand Junction, Colo. Dana Brewer, manager of Monument Aircraft Services, said the mechanic, who he declined to identify, was struck in the chest by the 172’s propeller, which […]

Cessna is hiring about 600 workers over the next year as it gets ready for a return to business as usual. The Wichita-based plane-maker has laid off thousands of people in the last couple of years but renewed optimism and a fattened order book have it looking for staff. The company has so far this […]

The horse-trading that characterizes the political game in Washington has trotted out hundreds of millions in financial perks for GA. In order to coax senators and representatives into voting for an unpopular bill aimed at ending export subsidies deemed illegal by the World Trade Organization, proponents of the legislation offered $137 billion in tax breaks […]