All General aviation articles – Page 666
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Locator rule irks Australian AOPA
AUSTRALIAN GENERAL-aviation pilots are trying to block a new Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) requirement for all light aircraft to carry aircraft-mounted emergency locator transmitters (ELTs). The Australian Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) says that while over three-quarters of its membership agrees that ELT carriage should ...
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A better pace-setter
Harry Hopkins/OBERPFAFFENHOFEN SINCE IT FIRST ENTERED service, the Dornier 328 high-speed turboprop has been the subject of a great many detail refinements, not least to its aerodynamics, its propellers and systems. So extensive are these changes that the designation of the current production version has been changed from ...
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USA calls for disclosure of pilot work records
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC David Learmount/LONDON THE US NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is to examine airline rights of access to pilots' previous employment history, following the investigation of a 1994 regional-airliner accident which killed 15 people. The NTSB, which blames the pilot of the Flagship Airlines ...
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UK police to evaluate fixed-wing types for air support
THE UK POLICE Department Procurement Unit is seeking an independent contractor to evaluate up to eight fixed-wing aircraft types, to enable police air-support units to determine which is best suited to their needs. The Home Office Police Department has invited bids from potential contractors to "...undertake a comparative ...
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New Ansett holding company is set up
NEWS CORPORATION and TNT have set up a new holding-company structure for the Ansett group, opening the way for fresh investment, possibly by a new partner. Talks are still in progress with Air New Zealand over its ambitions to take a stake, although issues of price and control remain to ...
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Jet Aviation names date for shared-scheme start
Basle, SWITZERLAND-based Jet Aviation will begin operating its new Corpavia Club shared-aircraft scheme at the beginning of 1996, using two Beechjet 400As: it has options on a further ten. Corpavia Club members do not buy shares in aircraft: each pays a joining fee, an annual subscription and a ...
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Safety certification
The British Aerospace (Systems and Equipment) SCR500 range of digital cockpit voice and combined voice/data recorders has received ED55/ED56A crash-protection certification from the UK Civil Aviation Authority. The approval means SCR500 recorders can be incorporated in any aircraft on the UK register, and BASE expects similar approvals from other aviation ...
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School uses GPS to check proficiency
EMBRY-RIDDLE Aeronautical University is experimenting with the global-positioning system (GPS) as a means of evaluating students and instructors in its flight-training programme. GPS position data is being recorded in flight then replayed on the ground, to evaluate pilot proficiency objectively. Embry-Riddle's campus in Prescott, Arizona has developed an ...
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Dassault
Ron Velivis has been named director of technical support at Dassault Falcon Jet, of Paramus, New Jersey. He replaces Ray Villano, who has retired. Velivis, who has held positions with Cessna Aircraft and Ronson Aviation, was most recently Dassault Falcon Jet's manager for service network administration. Source: Flight ...
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Dassault eyes Thomson-CSF stake
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS DASSAULT AVIATION IS considering taking a stake in Thomson-CSF, the French defence-electronics giant, which is due to be privatised in 1996, but the company has ruled out an alliance with Aerospatiale. "I've no interest in buying into Aerospatiale," says chairman Serge Dassault, claiming ...
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European rules must be tighter
Sir - In your editorial "Associate membership" (Flight International, 20-26 September), "bizarre anomalies just around the corner" is a good description of what is being allowed to happen to civil aviation within the European Union. This particular club (non-affiliated) must be the only such to charge high subscription ...
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Regulatory fatigue
EUROPE, THE USA and Canada are all about to draw up vital new regulations on the safety-related issue of aircrew flight-time limitations, yet there is no evidence that they are trying to harmonise those rules. Given that the same bodies wish rulemaking to harmonise everything from aircrew licensing to aircraft ...
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Growing up
The flag carriers of the scattered Pacific islands are maturing and learning how to cooperate both with one another and major airlines. However, geography and colonial legacies remain the biggest obstacles to their future development. David Knibb reports. Isolation makes the scattered Pacific islands different from all other developing countries. ...
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CL-44: putting the record straight
Sir - In your Aging Airliner Census (Flight International, 4-10 October, P49), you do not mention the Canadair CL-44 turboprop freighter. There are still five in active service in the USA, one with Buffalo and four with Tradewinds (formerly Bluebell), now trading under US Federal Aviation Regulations Part 121. We ...
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AOPA
Stacy Hamm has been named regional representative for Arizona, Utah and Nevada by the US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), of Frederick, Maryland. Hamm, who replaces Carl Smith, was formerly an aviation-insurance agent and is a member of the Arizona Aviation Safety Advisory Group. ...
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Flights from Taiwan to China via Macau gain approval
TAIWAN HAS concluded a five-year commercial air agreement with Macau, which permits for the first time "through flights" to China, using the same aircraft. Under the agreement, signed on 17 October, start-up carrier Air Macau will be permitted to fly from Taipei or Kaoshiung to Macau and ...
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Jet Aviation
Jack Brooks, has become sales manager for maintenance and modifications, at service company Jet Aviation of West Palm Beach, Florida. He was most recently manager of corporate sales for aircraft maintenance and modifications at Page Avjet. Source: Flight International
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Please explain the plane in Spain
Sir - In June, I saw a large ruined castle on a hill above the village of Coruna del Conde, Spain, on the battlements of which, mounted on a plinth and visible from more than a kilometre away, is a full-size jet fighter with a Spanish roundel. The ...
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FAA
Steven Brown senior vice-president for Government and technical affairs at the US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has been appointed vice-chairman of the US Federal Aviation Administration's Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee. He will hold the position for 1995-6 and will become chairman for 1996-7, succeeding Sarah MacLeod of the Aeronautical ...