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https://avweb.com/avmail/ Reader mail this week about ATC privatization, the Enola Gay exhibit, sharing the airspace with mini-jets and more.

Congratulations and an AVweb hat go out to Gary Thayer, this week’s AVscoop winner. Submit news tips via email to newstips@avweb.com. Rules and information are at https://avweb.com/contact/newstips.html.

Canadian commercial pilots are trained to handle everything the vast (and often forbidding) country can throw at them and don’t need special training for Northern flying, says a Transport Canada official. Michel Gaudreau was responding to the findings of a coroner’s inquest into a crash that ultimately killed four people in the Northwest Territories almost […]

A European engine manufacturer says owners can count on at least 2,400 hours of service from their product even though the FAA says each engine must be replaced (not overhauled) after 1,000 hours. The FAA certified Thielert’s 135-horsepower diesel last week but set a 1,000-hour initial Time Before Replacement (TBR); Thielert countered. Each engine comes […]

If you think it couldn’t happen to you at your small, safe, everyone-knows-everyone-else local airport, Albert Paul, of Bergen County, N.J., would beg to differ. Nearby Lakewood Municipal Airport is planning to install a perimeter fence and a security gate after Paul’s Cessna was hot-wired and flown halfway across the country to Minnesota, via Canada, […]

Authorities are investigating the fatal midair collision of two Robinson helicopters at the company’s home airport in Torrance, Calif., Thursday. Two people died in an R-44 that was taking off when it collided with an R-22 that was landing. The pilot of the R-22 was taken to hospital with leg and head injuries. FAA spokesman […]

The FAA is looking at revising its enforcement policy for pilots who bust TFRs and the Washington ADIZ. Agency officials told a recent meeting of the GA Coalition that federal security agencies are not in favor of a flexible system of enforcement that takes mitigating factors into consideration. In fact, according to EAA’s account of […]

Cessna appears to be in no hurry to fill its third “leadership” vacancy in 16 months. Last week, longtime Cessna exec Charlie Johnson announced he was retiring for undisclosed personal reasons, although he told The Wichita Eagle his recent health problems played a role. Johnson, 60, has worked for Cessna for 24 years and took […]

In late October, the FAA issued its long-anticipated Final Rule on Domestic Reduced Vertical Separation Minimums (DRVSM) decreeing that on January 20, 2005, the required vertical separation between aircraft above the U.S. at altitudes from 29,000 to 41,000 feet will be reduced from 2,000 feet to 1,000. That means more available routes, which the FAA […]

Congratulations and an AVweb hat go out to Josh Timms, this week’s AVscoop winner. Submit news tips via email to newstips@avweb.com. Rules and information are at https://avweb.com/contact/newstips.html.