It is easy to get caught up in the business side of flying. The future of fuel, security directives, regulations, Congress, and the economy tend to stress a great many pilots out. An antidote to that stress is an old-fashioned fly-in. The 37th annual Copperstate Fly-In, held Oct. 21-23 at Casa Grande Municipal Airport (CGZ), […]
Sky Manor wins top N.J. aviation award
Sky Manor Airport in Pittstown, New Jersey was recently awarded the 2010 Gill Robb Wilson Award for outstanding contribution to New Jersey Aviation. The award was given by the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Coalition in recognition of saving the airport. New Jersey airports have been closing at an alarming rate in recent years, reducing the network of […]
U-Fuel names Misegades sales rep
EAU CLAIRE, Wisc — U-Fuel, an aviation fuel systems provider, has named Kent Misegades its Aviation Sales Representative. U-Fuel introduced self-service fuel stations to aviation in the 1980s. Misegades has worked as an aerospace engineer for three decades and is an award-winning aviation speaker and writer. He is an authority on aviation fuels and co-author […]
Why you should care about TTF
Public comments are interesting…or can be. Following are but three comments made at the Sept. 22 hearing of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on an FAA proposal to prohibit any new residential through the fence (TTF) agreements at publicly-funded airports that are part of the National System of Airports and therefore eligible for […]
Planehook takes issue with FAA’s TTF proposal
Planehook Aviation Services takes issue with the FAA’s proposal to prohibit residential through-the-fence operations at publicly funded airports. In a white paper [download here] released Oct. 5, David Hook, Planehook’s president, outlines the impact to security the proposal would create. From the white paper: “This FAA policy proposal contradicts previously established national policy and bears […]
Lycoming O-233 flies on Falcon 2.0
The Falcon 2.0 from Renegade Light Sport flew for the first time Saturday, Oct. 2 (see video and test pilot interviews here). Lycoming‘s new O-233 LSA engine provides the power for the Falcon 2.0. First flight lasted .6 hours with four takeoffs and landings. Test pilot Rob Runyan, “saw 1,000 feet AGL by the end […]
Approved Model List expansion for AvTek’s Pulsar
The Pulsar-MOSFET Landing Light Flasher System from AvTek has received an expanded Approved Model List from the FAA. The AML expansion (which includes nearly all popular certificated aircraft) is applicable to either the one-light or two-light system. See the AvTek website for pricing.
Flight Guide’s iEFB app hits the mark
Airguide Publications has jumped head first into electronic delivery of what has traditionally been, at least until 2010, an ink on paper product. Judging from the activity around their exhibits at Sun ’n Fun in April and AirVenture in July, a great many pilots are interested in their efforts. Specifically, the Flight Guide iEFB iPad […]
Planes on Poles… really!
From the press release, “Don’t roll your eyes when you hear I have yet another app. This one is so stupid you have to love it!” Okay, maybe that part is from the pre-roll to the release, but AircraftMerchants president and nascent iPhone/iPad app-creator Todd Huvard has done it again. This time with Planes on […]