Showalter Flying Service at Orlando Executive Airport (ORL) in Florida has unveiled a new program, the SimCom Advantage Plan, designed to help save SimCom customers money. Showalter, located minutes from the SimCom Orlando headquarters, has dedicated three covered hangars, which can store everything up to and including a Lear 35, for SimCom training customer’s exclusive […]
Rare aircraft to be showcased at OSH
Rare vintage aircraft will be on hand to showcase the early years of flight at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2010 on July 26-Aug. 1 at Wittman Regional Airport (OSH). Among the pioneering aircraft present will be an original Hamilton H-47 Metalplane, plus replicas of a 1909 Bleriot XI, Avions Caudron C.460, and five warbirds from World […]
PiperSport lands at First Landings Aviation
First Landings Aviation, a sport pilot flight school founded by two young entrepreneurs in May 2009 at Apopka Airport (X04) in Orlando, has taken delivery of a 2010 PiperSport LTD. The addition of the PiperSport allows the school to offer both low-wing training in the PiperSport and high-wing training in a Remos G3 600. Both […]
Satcom Direct adds weather to FlightDeck Freedom
Satcom Direct has added graphical weather to its FlightDeck Freedom (FDF) service for aircraft equipped with Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 Integrated Flight Information System (IFIS). Aircraft that use Pro Line 21 include the Bombardier Challenger 300 and 605; the Cessna CJ1+, CJ2+, CJ3, CJ4, Encore+, and XLS+; the Gulfstream G150; and the Hawker 750, […]
10,000 miles in an LSA, 10,000 to go
With the total distance traveled at nearly 11,000 miles, Michael Combs has piloted his Remos Light Sport Aircraft beyond the halfway point of The Flight for the Human Spirit, designed to inspire people to never give up on their dreams. At the 79th stop in 19 flying days of a 50-state journey, Combs was greeted […]
Luscombe ‘Win Me’ winners chosen
The Luscombe Endowment’s “WIN ME” promotion kicked off in 2008, with pilots buying tickets for the chance to win a variety of prizes, including the grand prize: A Luscombe T8F. In a drawing held June 7, Moiya Linden of Wickenburg, Ariz., won the grand prize. The official presentation of her prize is tentatively slated at […]
Rochester Wings Expo prepares for takeoff
Avemco Insurance Company President Jim Lauerman is the featured speaker for the Rochester Wings Aviation Expo at the Greater Rochester International Airport (ROC) in New York June 18-19. Lauerman will address the issues of risk management in the cockpit that go beyond training and technology in his presentation titled, “We Have Met the Enemy, and […]
Modified LASP expected later this year
A rewrite of the Large Aircraft Security Program (LASP) is underway by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials, according to a report by Aviation International News, which quotes TSA Assistant Administrator John Sammon: “The regulation is being written as we speak and hopefully we’ll get [a notice of proposed rulemaking] out on the street sometime this […]
Crossing the line
LETTER TO THE EDITOR “If you cross the line, you’ve crossed the line” (FAA runway safety initiative launched). How true, but it more often occurs after landing and not completely clearing the runway. Just because your seat in the cockpit is across the hold short line doesn’t mean you are “clear of the runway.” I […]