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When the world’s richest celebrities and industrialists arrive at the single runway of Friedman Memorial Airport in Sun Valley, Idaho, tomorrow for their annual luxury-recreation-and-dealmaking retreat — Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Ted Turner, etc., are expected — their Gulfstreams and Citations will have to wait their turn right along with the local Huskies and Bonanzas. […]

Reminders From AOPA About Airport Security In the wake of two recent incidents where non-pilots easily entered airport property and took off with unsecured aircraft, the general public and the mainstream media have been in an uproar about the dangers of those little airplanes. To counter that, AOPA last week went on the offensive, but […]

Meanwhile, some senior FAA workers frustrated over a lack of response to their complaints say they may go to federal court to seek satisfaction, GovExec.com reported last week. Under rules instituted by the FAA’s “pay-for-performance” system, some 2,000 senior employees have been locked out of base salary increases. The workers say this means they lose […]

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) is at odds yet again with the FAA, this time over the agency’s unilateral cancellation of a liaison program. The FAA last week abruptly terminated the program, in what NATCA called “a terse, 79-word fax.” The controllers had been working on technical projects such as en route modernization […]

Workers Vs. The FAA The U.S. House on Thursday passed a bill that would allow Flight Service Station (FSS) workers to retain their jobs as FAA employees, but the measure, which has won bipartisan support, still has a long way to go to become law. First, a Senate version must pass, then the two versions […]

When a low-level maneuver went awry during an air show near Lviv, Ukraine, in 2002, the two pilots safely ejected from their Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet, but the uncontrolled jet crashed into the crowd, killing 77 people in the world’s worst-ever air show disaster. Last week, a military court sentenced the jet’s pilot to 14 […]

A 24-year-old woman who had hoped for a modeling career but was crippled in a plane crash in 2002 has sued the pilot for 100 million pounds in a British court, The Times of India reported Monday. The woman, who is originally from Italy but was going to school in London, accepted a ride in […]

The Cost Of A Choice A pilot who made an emergency landing on a California freeway in April 2004 won some consideration in an appeal before an NTSB judge in Denver last week. In October, the FAA had ordered a six-month suspension for “reckless” behavior, but the NTSB reduced it to five months. The pilot […]

Under the new agreement, EAA will showcase LAMA members through its events, programs and publications, promoting the wide array of aircraft available through those manufacturers. A number of LAMA companies will stage their aircraft in a special “light-sport-aircraft mall” at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2005, July 25-31. Further EAA/LAMA joint initiatives will be introduced later this […]

EAA Joins Forces With LAMA EAA and the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association (LAMA) have forged an agreement to help each other expand the new sport-flying community. The collaboration grew from the two groups’ work together in the EAA Sport Pilot Tour, which started earlier this month to bring sport aircraft and information to various locations […]