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Doctors who work for University of North Carolina’s Area Health Education Center (AHEC) say they’ve been pressured to not oppose the university’s plan to close the on-campus airport that allows them quick deployment to far-flung areas of the state. The university wants to close Horace Williams Airport to make way for a new research center, […]

FAA Administrator Marion Blakey is painting a bleak picture of the future of air travel if her controversial formula to fund the agency isn’t adopted. In a speech delivered during the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) Day on the Hill late last week, Blakey told members of Congress that air traffic gridlock is on […]

The FAA declared Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) to be fully operational in Alaska on May 31, and now it’s working on the rest of the country. Following “extensive technical analysis,” the agency determined that ADS-B is a far more accurate way to keep airplanes from banging into each other. “The evaluation found that over 96 […]

John Carr, the former president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, says high-level talks are under way to get NATCA and the FAA back to the bargaining table with the aim of hammering out a negotiated settlement. In his blog last week he wrote that a tentative agreement has been reached to return to […]

BRAINTEASERS Quiz #121: Stress — Deal With It Stress accompanies flight — Don’t Panic! Some stress is good, some not so. Recently, while checking out in a stubby-winged Thorp T-18, the Brainteaser author stressed himself and the airplane. Share the humiliation and test your stress limits.

Hawker Beechcraft plans to mark the 60th anniversary of the Bonanza and the 75th anniversary of Beechcraft next month at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis. The events begin with the Bonanzas-to-Oshkosh arrival on Saturday, before the show starts. At least 100 Bonanzas and Barons of all models will gather at Rockford, Ill., to fly in […]

When the air traffic system clogged up along the East Coast last Friday, a spokesman for the Air Transport Association told the media that general aviation is a significant cause of delays. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” says Dan Hubbard, spokesman for the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA). “Almost all delays are caused […]

The FAA on Wednesday released its 2008-2012 Draft FAA Flight Plan, a to-do list of the agency’s latest goals. The document is now available online for review and the FAA invites comment. “Simply put, we need to overhaul our aviation system,” the document states, and it provides a “roadmap” to achieve that over the next […]

Liberty Aerospace has received certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for both VFR and IFR ratings of the Liberty XL2, the company announced on Wednesday. The company now plans to develop new overseas markets. As Libertys global expansion continues I am confident that our aircrafts unique mix of economy, affordability and modern technology […]

Miscommunications are a major cause of runway incursions, the FAA said in a safety notice issued this week. Statistics show that incursions this year are higher than last year, with 139 incursions so far in FY2007, compared to 117 in the same period the year before. The incursions included incidents such as crossing hold-short lines […]