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Vaisala Inc. is now producing its AWOS IV, which includes a freezing rain sensor that provides real-time, fully automated reporting and is the first such AWOS to receive FAA approval. The system is designed to measure both the duration and intensity of freezing rain and adds that to a more standard list of altimeter setting, […]

Universal aims to announce, on Sept. 25 at the NBAA Convention in Atlanta, FAA certification for a new FMS that “marks the very first WAAS-FMS system TSO’d and capable for installation on Part 23 & 25 aircraft.” The new “W” series of Flight Management Systems is certified to TSO-C146b, Class Gamma-3, “the highest possible,” and […]

FAA Administrator Marion Blakey warned the airline industry Tuesday in her final week in office to address scheduling practices that are “out of line with reality,” or be ready “when the government steps in,” according to a report by The Associated Press. Any changes should include international airlines and business jets, too, according to a […]

Two men were killed Tuesday morning when a helicopter crashed into the sea while filming video near Sarasota, Fla. A third person in the helicopter was seriously hurt. The group was working on a project for Powerboat magazine. The boat was also damaged, but the two people on board escaped unhurt, according to The Associated […]

Three people walked away from the emergency landing of a Cessna Cardinal on the roof of a warehouse in Columbia, S.C., on Sunday. And it appears that in this case, hitting power lines actually helped. Pilot Larry Ross and passengers James and Joanne Keisler had just taken off from Owens Field in Columbia when the […]

As a community of aviators, AVweb‘s subscribers have come through again. On Saturday and Sunday, 21,633 people used the links on AVweb‘s home page and e-mail alert to log on to Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk site and take part in the search for Steve Fossett. We didn’t have the numbers from our normal Monday AVwebFlash e-mail […]

Searchers rushed to the scene of another promising lead in the hunt for Steve Fossett today only to find the latest in a series of previous wrecks. Over the past week, at least six old wrecks have been spotted by searchers, proof that the crews are doing a thorough job of combing the area, according […]

Anyone who thought airspace security for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Sydney, Australia this week was a lot of hot air found out differently if they breached it. And that included a couple of hot air balloon pilots who were ordered to make emergency landings as they approached the 45 nm exclusion zone. […]

After two years of painstaking work, the reproduction shop of the Glenn Curtiss Museum is ready to let another of its creations take flight. On Sept. 14, during the annual Seaplane Homecoming at the museum, retired American Airlines pilot Jim Poel will fly a recreation of the 1914 Rodman Wannamaker America, a twin-engine flying boat […]

The day after the NTSB issued a recommendation that the FAA require that all aircraft be equipped with 406 Mhz ELTs, the FAA issued a safety bulletin reminding pilots that as of Feb. 1, 2009, search and rescue satellites will no longer scan 121.5. However, the agency doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to […]