By JEFFREY BOCCACCIO. This is the 14th in a series of articles looking at the impact of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) on GA pilots. The last discussion on Traffic Information Service–Broadcast (TIS-B) was a clear example of how the FAA is trying to put together a Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) […]
The fizz on TIS
By JEFFREY BOCCACCIO. This is the 13th in a series of articles looking at the impact of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) on GA pilots. In my last post, ADS-B: Twice as nice, I spent a fair amount of time detailing the fact that there are two separate ADS-B systems in the U.S. […]
Copperstate Fly-In program
A poetic checklist
When Kenneth Karnes, now 75, recently started flying again after a several-year hiatus, he bought a Cessna 210 and began studying the airplane and procedures. One day his son, David, picked him up from the airport and noticed he was reading something. It turned out the elder Karnes had written a poem to help him […]
Rare bird to be featured at Copperstate
One of the world’s only Aero Vodochody L-39 ZA Czechoslovakian fighter jets will take to the skies this week in Casa Grande, Ariz., at the 40th annual COPPERSTATE Fly-In & Aviation Expo. Now based at Stellar Airpark in Chandler, Ariz., the journey for this stunning red-white-and-black Czechoslovakian L-39 ZA fighter jet — owned, maintained and […]
Free maintenance symposium slated
By DALE FORTON. Planning is underway for the First State Chapter–PAMA Maintenance Symposium on Feb. 9, 2013, at the Deerfield Country Club in Newark, Delaware. One of the most important aspects of this eight-hour maintenance training is that the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) keeps it accessible to everyone. That is why this will always […]
Chapter and verse
By DALE FORTON. The Professional Aviation Maintenance Association has an unrecognized strength in its organization that makes it a resource for what’s going on in aircraft maintenance. That strength is our chapter network, which is, of course, made up of our members. Besides being a member-driven organization, we have a resource from our chapters that […]
NASA and partners test unmanned aircraft technology in N.D.
By KATHERINE BARNSTORFF, NASA Langley Research Center GRAND FORKS, N.D. — A research team made of officials from government, industry, and higher education has completed two weeks of flight testing of “sense and avoid” technology that could some day help unmanned aircraft better integrate into the national air transportation system. The MITRE Corporation and the […]
What has PAMA done for you lately?
By DALE FORTON. Often I am asked: “What does the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) do?” The first response is to tell you what we are supposed to do per our ends statements: Be the industry resource for information regarding aircraft maintenance; Be an advocate for the aviation maintenance professional in legal and regulatory affairs, […]