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One day at Spangdahlem Air Base (Germany GCA), I was working a couple of F-16s. One was on the go for his last approach. Me:“Callsign, reset transponder, squawk XXXX, and ident.” Pilot:“Roger. XXXX on the flash.” Me:“Callsign, radar contact.” [after a moment] Me:“Callsign, your ident feature appears stuck.” Pilot:“Roger.” [pause] Pilot:“How about now?” Me:“Negative. Still […]
We’re seeing more capable navigation apps for Android tablets, including the new AvNav EFB app. It has some of the same features that iOS users are accustomed to, including plates-on-map and DUATS flight planning and filing. In this video, AvNav’s Sanjay Kumar offers a tour of the app’s functions during its debut at AirVenture 2014 […]
The aircraft involved was a 1973 Cessna T210L. It had a current annual inspection, was ADS-B compliant, had a GPS approved for IFR operations and the database for the avionics was found to be current. The aircraft was not approved for flight into known icing conditions, a concern for the planned October flight into the […]
Three people who were on a rescue helicopter that went down in the remote mountains of Myanmar walked out of the forest 10 days after the crash. The Chiang Mai (Thailand) Mail is reporting the Thai pilot, identified as Capt. Chatwal Thanthong, suffered a spinal injury and is in the hospital but his Burmese copilot […]
It’s not enough that the airlines want to reduce the distance between seats to the width of a human hair, now the flight attendants want to take away our phones again. It’s been barely a year since the airlines and the FAA relented, tossing the downtrodden traveling masses the leanest bone of being able to […]
AVweb’s weekly submersion into what’s new in general aviation uncovered news of everything from a new Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame inductee through a Canadian flight safety contest, an SMS program for EMS transport to a new line of high performance brakes that can be retrofitted onto Cirrus Aircraft. Charlie Johnson, President and COO of […]
Based on my data sources, since August 1, 2014, we have not administered a single ATP knowledge test that would allow a pilot to then go on to take the ATP multi-engine practical test and become ATP qualified for service in an airline. Yup. None. For two whole months and I expect this trend to […]
Mark Twain once said, “If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way.” That’s also true of flying a Cat I ILS to minimums. No amount of training, except maybe in the best simulators, prepares you for what it’s like to reach DA and see … very […]
NASA has developed a new technology to help deliver information to pilots flying in remote areas of Alaska without access to navigation aids and communications. The project, called Traffic and Atmospheric Information for General Aviation (TAIGA), can provide a pilot with customized data sets that can be downloaded quickly via satellite and plugged into a […]
Due to fears of the disease Ebola, five of the busiest international airports in the U.S. are enhancing screening measures for arriving passengers who began their travel in West African countries. According to a report in the Washington Post, the travelers will be given questionnaires and have their temperatures taken at John F. Kennedy International […]
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