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Some California FBOs are imposing a nickel-per-gallon surcharge on 100LL fuel sales to fund a legal defense and a counter lawsuit filed against an environmental group that’s trying to restrict leaded avgas from the California market. The FBOs, which are part of the California Avgas Coalition, are countersuing the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) and […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. “Complacency has no place in soaring” are the words Larry Hockensmith uses to open a brief description of a video that ends with him crashing a Schweizer 1-26 into a row of mailboxes […]

The LISA Airplanes team announced Friday that its “multi-access” AKOYA amphibious (and snow-capable) aircraft, an LSA hopeful, has flown its first passenger and will be coming to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh this year. The AKOYA is a carbon composite airframe powered by a tail-mounted Rotax 912 engine and boasts a glass cockpit “with EFIS, EMS, GPS,” […]

The IMC Club will continue its program of outreach to instrument-rated pilots at AirVenture Oshkosh this year. The club, which promotes the creation of local chapters of IFR pilots who meet to discuss topics and share information relative to instrument flying, will be discussing its aims and goals at forums July 23, 25 and 27 […]

Zulu Flight Training, a new flight school with a unique concept, is opening this week in an urban shopping center in Spanish Fort, Ala., equipped with Redbird flight simulators. The flight school is owned by Continental Motors, which is headquartered in nearby Mobile. “Our training model is an adaptation of the Redbird Skyport, but rather […]

The FAA raised the mandatory retirement age for pilots from 60 to 65 on Dec., 13, 2007, which means affected pilots will be forced into retirement this year, while some forecasters see growing demand just around the corner. Boeing forecasts that the industry will need more than 460,000 new pilots to meet worldwide demand between […]

The FAA’s acting administrator, Michael Huerta, Thursday promoted the agency’s pursuit of more regulation regarding how pilots are trained. Huerta spoke at a meeting of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) and his comments follow the July 5 release of the BEA’s final report on the crash of Air France Flight 447. Huerta told ALPA […]

Aviation Safety Resources (ASR) has earned a patent for what it calls the Smart Recovery System for General Aviation Aircraft, which “automatically deploys the appropriate device” for a given emergency situation. The company says it is using sensor systems currently available in commercial and military aircraft. It “detects the environment” and “makes decisions based on […]

Santa Monica, Calif., city council members this week shelved the plan they introduced two weeks ago to pay flight school operators to fly student pilots away from the city’s airport for touch and go operations. The original plan would have been introduced as a test program. It would have offered participating flight schools operating from […]

Virgin Galactic will make its maiden tourist flight into space next year, Sir Richard Branson announced at the Farnborough Air Show on Wednesday. He also unveiled plans to use WhiteKnightTwo to carry a vehicle called LauncherOne that will deliver commercial satellites into orbit. The vehicle is already in development and is expected to be ready […]