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In an effort to prevent unmanned aerial systems from buzzing around Washington, D.C., during the busy tourist season, the FAA launched a public awareness campaign to declare the area a “No Drone Zone.” The announcement reminds the public that unmanned UAS flights are prohibited in the airspace in the 15-mile radius of Ronald Reagan Washington […]
The FAA awarded contracts this week for its DUATS II program to CSC DUATS and Lockheed Martin, dropping longtime provider DTC DUATfrom the online pilot briefing/flight planning service. Both CSC and DTC had provided the service for the last 26 years. CSC won a 5-year contract along with Lockheed Martin, which runs the Flight Services […]
Instrument pilots take far more checkrides than their more visually oriented counterparts. In addition to the initial rating check, you occasionally face an instrument competency ride when you are more than six months out of currency. Most times when you add a rating, like a multi-engine ticket, you’ll be expected to show off your gauge […]
Cessna’s admission this week that it now has no definite timeline for its diesel 182 JT-A invites speculation. Or maybe I’m the only one who can’t resist asking what’s going on in Wichita. Earlier this week, we got an email from a reader trying to snag some hangar space at Independence, Kansas, where Cessna builds […]
Overheard this while working in the pattern with a student years ago. Along the Connecticut coast, airports ABC and XYZ were often mistaken for each other by pilots. One day a student pilot pilot called in and was told to call a four-mile final for the active runway. When he did report on final, the […]
Four of six people aboard an Airbus A400M military transport were killed with the aircraft crashed in a field in Seville, Spain, Saturday. The new four-engine turboprops are assembled in Seville and the aircraft was on a test flight when it hit an electrical tower while attempting an emergency landing. The nature of the emergency […]
During a test flight on Friday, Aeromobil’s flying-car prototype crashed, after the pilot, designer Stefan Klein, pulled the parachute. Klein suffered no injuries, according to Aeromobil’s statement, and the airplane was “only partially damaged.” News photos show the aircraft apparently mostly intact, with some damage to the fuselage. “Experience and data from the test flight […]
Want to start an argument on an online aviation forum or while having a $200 hamburger with your buds? Express an opinion on flap use on landing in a light single. The responses you’ll get are aviation’s form of red states versus blue states. The no-flap or partial-flap crowd points to a number of Owner’s […]
A Piper PA-32 Saratoga crashed on Interstate 285 in Atlanta about 10 a.m. Friday morning, killing all four on board. Nobody on the freeway was hurt, but the highway was shut down in both directions for hours, to secure the crash site for investigators. The airplane had departed from Runway 3R at Dekalb Peachtree Airport, […]
The FAA contractor who started a fire at the Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center during a suicide attempt last fall will plead guilty to federal charges in June. In court on Thursday, Brian Howard’s attorney entered a not guilty plea as a formality that buys time to process a deal with prosecutors, the Chicago […]
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