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With the safety of helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) under so much scrutiny it’s worth noting that technology and procedures are under development to make these and other helicopter operations safer. Among the systems being successfully deployed is wide area augmentation system localizer performance with vertical guidance (WAAS LPV) for helicopters. Although WAAS LPV is […]

The town council of Grant-Valkaria, a small town on Florida’s Atlantic coast, voted this week to go ahead with an effort to restrict flight training activities at the Valkaria Airport, even after the town’s own zoning board voted against the plan. “Basically it’s a travesty, it’s an absolute travesty,” one unidentified pilot told the local […]

Cirrus Aircraft said this week it will boost production to eight aircraft per week and recall about 50 furloughed workers. “We are extremely pleased with continuing stronger sales trends that began in the first quarter,” said Pat Waddick, executive vice president of operations at Cirrus. The company had increased production to six airplanes per week […]

Searchers and investigators are now converging on the area where the Brazilian Air Force found a five-mile debris field where an Air France A330 carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew is thought to have gone down while on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris Sunday evening. Brazilian authorities are now saying there is […]

AVweb‘s Fiddling Around America tour wrapped up at Dan Gryder’s home base in Griffin, Ga. after about 3,000 nautical miles and 28.5 hours of flying time on a trip that took the Herpa DC-3 as far north as the upper peninsula of Michigan, as far west as Watertown, S.D. and through the Southeast. Gryder said […]

The Indian air force has slanted to a more ornithologically conscious approach to flight planning following a bird strike involving one of its aircraft and reported in the flight levels. A huge four-engine IAF IL-76 transport was flying at more than 22,000 feet when it struck a yet-unidentified bird. The aircraft landed safely, but the […]

A CFM56-2A-2 engine has flown 19,655 hours on the wing of an E-6 before its first removal, surpassing the old mark of 15,000 hours and setting a military aviation record, according to the official newspaper of Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center. The engine was maintained regularly throughout its life on the aircraft, but its most […]

Flight restrictions in place Wednesday and Thursday last week relating to President Barack Obama’s visit to Los Angeles apparently caught six pilots unaware and they may now all pay for their mistakes. Each one may now face anything from certificate suspension to revocation. During Obama’s overnight in Los Angeles (where he attended a Democratic Party […]

The wake-up call of choice for those attending the annual Red Star Pilots Association fly-in at Gaston’s White River Resort in northern Arkansas is the sound of round engines turning for a flight in the dead-still 6 a.m. air. About 20 Nan Changs and Yaks converged on the picturesque resort where the patrons are usually […]

Air New Zealand is coming out in strong support of alternative fuel, saying that more than 3,000 pounds of fuel can be saved on a 12-hour flight if that flight is flown on a jatropha-seed-oil biofuel blend instead of straight Jet A. The airline makes the claim after flying the plant’s seed oil in a […]