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The White House released the Fiscal Year 2008 budget amid fanfare on Monday morning, but general aviation groups arent jumping for joy. In the DOT budget breakdown, the FAA allotment includes $175 million for a 21st Century satellite navigation system to replace older air traffic control equipment and $900 million in additional air traffic control […]

On Monday morning, FAA Administrator Marion Blakey announced that FAA Chief Operating Officer Russ Chew would be leaving at the end of February. “We were hoping to keep hold on him longer, but this was an opportunity he just couldn’t pass up,” she told staff at a weekly meeting. Just what that opportunity will be […]

In Thursday’s issue, the Age-65 story (FAA Chief: Controller Age Limit “Law Of The Land”) referred to the drafting of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that will change the retirement age for airline pilots. FAA spokeswoman Alison Duquette told AVweb the role of the Aviation Rulemaking Committee will be to provide specific economic data to […]

WHAT’S NEW INDEX What’s New: February 2007This month AVweb‘s survey of the latest products and services for pilots, mechanics and aircraft owners brings you books, an electronic E6-B, DVDs, e-books and more.

COLUMN INDEX Leading Edge #1: After Your Checkride — The Next 100 HoursThis week AVweb introduces a new columnist, Thomas Turner, whose monthly Leading Edge column will address pilot training and proficiency issues culled from his extensive experience as a flight instructor. This month he tackles the question that pops up after you get your […]

The DHL A300 that was hit by a missile before enduring a miraculous no-hydraulics landing at Baghdad Airport in November 2004 might not survive the court battle that has blown up around it. The courier company apparently walked away from the aircraft, which, in addition to a rather large hole in the left wing courtesy […]

Its not often that both pilots walk away from a midair collision. Its rarer still when the airplanes involved are 60-year-old wire and wood antiques and at least one of the pilots is older than the aircraft. It happened Saturday when Ralph Baxter, an 82-year-old former airline and Navy pilot, was practicing aerobatics in his […]

Last week AOPA President Phil Boyer was in Washington, D.C., to brief the national media on the dark days that lie ahead if FAA Administrator Marion Blakey and the Bush administration hold sway on user fees. Boyer told the National Press Club that the real agenda is to cut Congress out of the decision-making process […]

Just because the Bush administration and FAA Administrator Marion Blakey want them doesnt necessarily mean theyll get the user-fee structure they seem to favor. The current incarnation of Congress is feeling its oats these days, and all the groundwork laid by the alphabet groups to curry favor with key members could pay off in those […]