All General aviation articles – Page 633
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Deja vu with age-60-years ruling
Sir - A US Federal Appeals Court panel will rule shortly on whether the US Federal Aviation Administration can continue to bar pilots of 60 years old from commanding US passenger aircraft. The general consensus seems to be that the "Age 60" rule is not based so much on medical ...
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Frontier leases
Denver-based Frontier Airlines is to lease two new 737-300s from Boullioun Aviation Services, of Belleview, Washington. The aircraft will be delivered in August 1997 and January 1998. Source: Flight International
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ValuJet stalled
In late December the US Federal Aviation Administration denied ValuJet Airlines permission to resume service between Atlanta and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, and West Palm Beach and Fort Meyers, Florida, and add more aircraft. Under a consent agreement, ValuJet is required to seek authority from the aviation agency to expand beyond ...
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Hold fire
Without waiting for impending US Federal Aviation Administration regulation to be confirmed, member carriers of the US Air Transport Association have agreed voluntarily to retrofit cargo-hold fire detection-and- suppression systems to all public-transport aircraft not already equipped with them, and are working with industry to develop appropriate equipment. The FAA ...
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Defender success
The Irish Garda (police) is to become the first operator of the Pilatus Britten-Norman Defender 4000 surveillance aircraft. The new aircraft will be fitted with a variety of sensors, including television and infra-red, and may be used in the counter-terrorist role. The Irish police expect to receive the aircraft in ...
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China puts on the squeeze
China is having mixed success in its aviation policy. Despite easing the moratorium on aircraft orders, Beijing is now having to curb international capacity growth for fear of Chinese carriers losing out to their foreign counterparts. But the authorities are having more success in their drive for domestic consolidation. ...
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Toughing out the boom
In 1997, can the major airlines improve on their performance in the boom year of 1996? Airline Business previews the main issues which will dominate airline executives' thinking in 1997. These are the good times, but life for the average airline manager does not appear to be getting any easier. ...
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IAOPA unhappy with lack of GA ATM plans
The International Council of Aircraft Owner and Pilot Associations (IAOPA) has complained strongly to Eurocontrol about the lack of recognition given to general-aviation interests in the preparation of the future European air-traffic-management (ATM) system. It says that, despite working on the European ATM System (EATMS) concept for a ...
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Airlines
There can be little doubt that one of the recurring themes running through the world airline industry in 1997 will be the continued US-leddrive towards world open skies. In its wake, expect further manoeuvring among carriers to strengthen transpacific and transatlantic alliances. Arguably, the most significant (and certainly ...
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Collins tests 3-D free-flight awareness display
ROCKWELL-Collins has developed a three-dimensional situational-awareness display, which, it believes, has a key role to play in making future "free-flight" air-traffic-management systems safe and viable. The display is made possible by the powerful graphics capability of the large-format, high-resolution, liquid-crystal displays which are under development for Collins' Pro Line 21 ...
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US schools fear GPS shortfall
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA The US flight-training industry fears that a problem may be emerging because students trained on older aircraft, which have no satellite-navigation equipment, are unfamiliar with the global-positioning system (GPS). The US National Air Transportation Association (NATA), representing flight schools, has appealed for information ...
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The disadvantages of supersonic travel
Sir - A 350t, 250-seat supersonic transport (SST), more than twice the size of the Aerospatiale/ British Aerospace Concorde was mentioned in an advertisement (Flight International, 4-10 September). You reported a similar concept from NASA of the USA (Flight International, 17-23 April). Could I place these concepts in relation to ...
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Differential GPS test
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is to equip a light aircraft with Rockwell-Collins avionics to test a Raytheon Aircraft Montek differential global-positioning-system (GPS), precision-approach ground station. Source: Flight International
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Corporate crash
Four Australians, including two senior executives from one of Papua New Guinea's most prominent companies, were killed on 9 December when their corporate Piper Navajo crashed and burned while approaching Papua New Guinea's Porgera gold mine. One passenger survived with severe burns. Source: Flight International
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Atlantic
Charter, management and consultancy Atlantic Aviation, of Teterboro, New Jersey, has appointed Gary Gennari to the newly created position of director for client relations. He was formerly charter-sales supervisor. Michael Sala has become manager of aircraft sales. Source: Flight International
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FAA approval for single-engined IFR operations nears
The long-standing rules, banning single-engined commercial operations under instrument-flight-rules (IFR), will be withdrawn in the USA, if a Federal Aviation Administration notice of proposed rule-making is accepted. If it occurs, this will be a blow to US/European regulatory harmonisation, because the European Joint Aviation Authorities appears to have ...
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AI(R) offers pilots with Avro RJs
Andrew Doyle/LONDON Aero International (Regional)is offering to supply flight crew and pilot-training packages to airlines which buy Avro regional jets, following the success of a ground-breaking project with Sabena. The regional-aircraft manufacturer developed its "bespoke training system" after Delta Air Transport (DAT), Sabena's regional subsidiary, found ...
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Harris' WINGS adds weather to flight-planning system
HARRIS HAS introduced a general-aviation flight-planning system, which allows routes to be overlaid on real-time weather graphics. The company's Weather Information and Navigational Graphics System (WINGS) consists of Windows-compatible software for Pentium-class personal computers (PCs). The system provides dial-up access to Melbourne, Florida-based Harris Information Systems' flight- and ...