By DALE FORTON. On Aug. 19, 1972, the first annual convention in Pittsburgh, Penna., was held where the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) was established. We are proud to be celebrating 40 years as the only non-profit organization that is an advocate for the Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT). PAMA promotes professionalism and recognition for AMTs […]
Honesty and integrity: Where have they gone?
By DALE FORTON. On June 1 the website for the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) went down. On Google it came up as a server issue, so we called the host who maintains our server and backs up our site to a separate server in their company. At least that’s what we paid for. After several […]
ADS-B’s two-for-one deal
By JEFFREY BOCCACCIO. This is the 11th in a series of articles looking at the impact of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) on GA pilots. Sounds like a sale doesn’t it? Well, not really. Instead, it’s a reference to the FAA’s decision as part of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) to […]
Keeping the spirit of flight alive
Story and Photos By JEAN-PIERRE BONIN I like to call myself an aviation freak. Though I never became a pilot, I have been an aviation lover since I was a teenager, but it was not until some decades later that I stumbled into general aviation. In 2000, a neighbor began building a Ultravia Pelican Sport […]
Unmanned Aircraft Systems and the GA pilot
By UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA OFFICIALS Unmanned aircraft systems — UAS — are now in the public lexicon. Everybody’s heard of UAS, but not everyone knows what they’re all about. That state of affairs underpins some widespread misconceptions about what UAS are, who uses them, and how they’ll affect the National Airspace. Very simply, an […]
Latest General Aviation Security Magazine released
General Aviation News’s GA Security blogger, Dave Hook, has released the Summer 2012 edition of his General Aviation Security Magazine. It’s chock full of interesting articles from a number of guest authors. Check it out here.
First Steam Plant Fly-In a success
By ELLIOTT PRATT The Sumner County Regional Airport, in Gallatin, Tennessee, hosted the first-ever Tennessee Steam Plant Fly-In Saturday, June 23. Organized by EAA Chapter 1343 and GTO Aviation, Inc., the inaugural fly-in featured vendors, information sessions, flight simulators, food, music, and more than 200 airplanes. Aviators from across the southeast and as far as […]
The closing of Mattituck
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: I believe it was in 2003 that my brother told me about a program called the Mattituck Engine Workshop sponsored, as you can guess, by Teledyne Mattituck Services. It was free and all you had to do was to get there. The program took a group of people, put them in […]
AMT Model Code of Conduct
By DALE FORTON. I was recently pointed to a little-known document that was constructed by seven well-known individuals in the general aviation industry: The Aviation Maintenance Technicians Model Code of Conduct, which offers recommendations to advance professionalism among aviation maintenance professionals. The code is organized into seven sections: General responsibilities of Aviation Maintenance Technicians; Third-party […]