Duncan Aviation has been selected as a full-service, factory-authorized, category 1 service center for the ARTEX 406 Series Emergency Locator Transmitter. Customers can send units to Duncan Aviation for maintenance and programming needs. Duncan Aviation has six factory-trained technicians who are ARTEX-certified. With advanced scheduling, these units can be turned in one day. For more […]
New product makes flight planning a snap
RMS Technology has just added Snap, a new feature now available in Flitesoft, its popular flight planning software program. Snap makes it easy to carry Flitesoft on a USB flash drive for use on any Windows computer. A 2 GB USB flash drive will hold Flitesoft, all your saved aircraft and route files, your pilot […]
Your medical: How can you make the system work for you? Some advice and tips from OKC’s top man
Aviation Medical Examiners, like any other type of medical specialist, are very different. There are some who, when confronted with a pilot who doesn’t have a perfect health history, will walk over to a phone, call a doctor at the Aerospace Medical Certification Division in Oklahoma City and get approval for that pilot right there […]
WHAT ARE THE DISQUALIFYING CONDITIONS?
Certain medical conditions are considered disqualifying for pilots. But if those conditions are “adequately controlled,” the FAA will issue a medical certification contingent on periodic reports. Those conditions are: • Angina pectoris • Bipolar disease • Cardiac valve replacement • Coronary heart disease that has been treated or, if untreated, that has been symptomatic or […]
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“Although the future of general aviation looks bright, we have not allowed this optimism to make us complacent.” — Pete Bunce, president, GAMA. “There must continue to be robust funding for general aviation, something Congress has repeatedly recognized even when an administration has attempted to slash GA funding.” — Phil Boyer, president, AOPA. “Without question, […]
When a pilot goes LASIK: Cirrus Design’s Alan Klapmeier tells us about his LASIK surgery
“I’ve worn glasses since about the first grade,” said Alan Klapmeier, co-founder of Cirrus Design Corp. of Duluth, Minn., which makes the Cirrus SR20 and SR22. “I remember thinking I wouldn’t be able to fly.” Klapmeier has done a lot of flying since then, as we all know, but decided to have LASIK eye surgery […]
A century of aviation: At 101, John Miller has seen most of it
John Miller, whose 101st birthday was last month, didn’t see the first Wright brothers flight in 1903 but he has been part of, or at least witnessed, most other important events in aviation’s 103-year history. When he was 4, he witnessed the prize-winning flight by Glenn Curtiss from Albany to New York City in 1910. […]
A life in motion:Bill Milliken’s autobiography is a wonderfully entertaining book
“Equations of Motion” isn’t the catchiest title on the shelves, and seems to belie the fascination of the book. At first glance, the subtitle may seem more apt: “Adventure, Risk and Innovation.” Far from being the engineering or physics treatise it might sound like, it is the autobiography of William F. Milliken, now 95 and […]
Florida rookie Jason Newburg wins at Reno
When something bad happens, a lot of people can let it get them down. Not Jason Newburg, who took something bad and turned it into victory. The Edgewater, Florida, aerobatics performer bought a Pitts Special S-1 in Jamaica. When it arrived in Florida, he found it had been damaged in shipping. The plane, now named […]