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The FAA has been monitoring Caravan winter performance and issued an Airworthiness Directive last March requiring pilots to run their hand over the top surface of the wing to check for ice within five minutes of a departure in icing conditions. On Feb. 22, another AD will be adopted, augmenting the earlier AD and adding […]

In November, a Grand Caravan was on approach to Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow when it dove to the ground from almost 5,000 feet. The difference with this flight was that Russian air regs required the Caravan to carry both cockpit voice and flight data recorders and investigators have been able to piece together the […]

Safety Recommendations Issued The NTSB says the fatal crash of a Cessna 208 Caravan in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada last October “calls into serious question the certification of the Cessna 208 for flight into known icing conditions.” A Jan. 17 letter from the board offers what may be the most scathing indictment yet of the popular […]

The airplane had departed from Birmingham, Ala., headed for Orlando. NTSB investigator Corky Smith told The Daily Home that the pilot filed an IFR flight plan and obtained a DUATS weather briefing before departure. The aircraft entered the clouds at an altitude of 5,000 feet, and at 7,000 feet began taking on ice. At about […]

“I pulled the chute and got a sudden jolt against the seatbelt,” Day told BRS. “The nose pitched down and very quickly leveled itself and in less than a minute we were on the ground.” All three exited the airplane, and a call was placed to 911. The Childersburg Fire Department responded, and the group […]

Aircraft Encountered Icing A Cirrus SR22 with three people on board landed gently in a grove of trees adjacent to a road near Childersburg, Ala., about 4 p.m. Friday after the pilot deployed the ballistic parachute. All three walked away from the airplane unhurt. The pilot, Kerwin Day, is a certified flight instructor and ATP-rated […]

Click through For Tim’s Sebring Image Gallery The Light Aircraft Expo was originally scheduled for October, but Hurricane Wilma made an appearance, pushing the “2005” event to Jan. 12-15, 2006. It’s a convenient show for buyers and sellers: At Sebring, you’re right on the flight line, and virtually every design is available for a demonstration. […]

The EAA Sport Pilot Tour will continue in 2006 with nine more stops, the next one Feb. 18 in Phoenix, Ariz., Johnson said. EAA’s Ron Wagner expressed enthusiastic support for the tour, saying that manufacturers sold about one airplane apiece at each of the six events last year. The rest of this year’s stops will […]

No official crowd estimates were available, but overall, Thursday and Friday were strong, EAA’s marketing consultant Dan Johnson told AVweb. RANS founder Randy Schlitter was there with two airplanes (an S-6 and an S-7) and said he could have sold each one of them several times over if he didn’t prefer to take them home […]

A Formative Year Exhibitors were plentiful and crowds were too, as the second annual U.S. Sport Aviation Expo wrapped up yesterday under sunny skies in Sebring, Fla. Visitors got to check out more than 100 light-sport aircraft on the field, and EAA issued over 75 new student sport-pilot certificates. “There’s a 30-knot wind here today, […]