Jeff Skiles, the US Airways Pilot best known as Sully Sullenberger’s first officer in the Miracle on the Hudson, is the featured guest speaker for the regular bi–monthly meeting of the Atlanta Aero Club May 20. Skiles has logged more than 20,000 hours during his flying career, which spans three decades including 24 years with […]
AeroTrack launches
Aero Tec Software Solutions Inc. has introduced “AeroTrack Online,” which electronically tracks flight, duty and rest times. AeroTrack Online is secure, user friendly and accessible from any web browser and some mobile enabled devices, according to company officials. The program has features to ensure that crewmembers remain legal to fly by providing company defined warnings […]
Aviation maintenance industry is major employer
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the national jobless rate front page news, the aviation maintenance industry continues to be a major employer around the country and an important economic contributor in many states. For the first time, the Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) has provided a snapshot of the industry’s state-by-state footprint. The study, prepared by […]
SAFE, Cessna partner for International Learn to Fly Day
As part of International Learn to Fly Day on May 15, the Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE) and Cessna Aircraft Co. have produced a Learn to Fly seminar. A customizable template of the presentation is being made available to Cessna’s global network of more than 280 Cessna Pilot Centers (CPCs) for use not […]
Washington state sets planning review meetings
Washington State Department of Transportation Aviation has set up four public meetings to review and take comments from the public on its draft copy of the updated Airport and Compatible Land Use Program guidebook. Meetings are set for 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the following locations: Monday, May 24 – Arlington Airport meeting room […]
New report charts course to NextGen
How to leverage America’s current leadership in global aviation to assure primacy in the 21st century is the focus of a new report prepared by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Produced in collaboration with Booz Allen Hamilton, the report, “Assuring the […]
AOPA redesigns online airport directory
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has unveiled a completely redesigned online airport directory, and for the first time, made it available to all pilots, whether they are members of AOPA or not. “It started, as all things do, with what our members wanted,” said AOPA President and CEO Craig Fuller. “They wanted easier […]
Two regional airports join Phillips 66 network
Two regional airports and their FBOs – Middle Peninsula Regional Airport (FYJ) in West Point, Va., and Victoria Regional Airport (VCT) in Victoria, Texas – have joined the Phillips 66 Aviation dealer network. The airports recently signed fuel agreements with the Ascent Aviation Group, the largest Phillips 66-branded aviation fuel distributor. Ascent supplies fuel to […]
AEA offers Pitot Static & Transponder Certification Training Course
The Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) will offer a Pitot Static & Transponder Certification Training Course June 24 at the association’s Derby Training Center at its headquarters near Kansas City. Presented by Don Dominguez of Radioman Avionics, the course will cover the proper methods for conducting pitot/static and transponder certification testing. This full-day course offers hands-on […]