The Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA’s) Aviation Security Advisory Committee (ASAC) met earlier this month for the first time in nearly three years to receive updates on security programs affecting airports, cargo and general aviation. According to a report from the National Business Aviation Association, the TSA indicated that the Large Aircraft Security Program (LASP) is […]
Sporty’s G1000 Course goes online
Sporty’s Garmin G1000 Checkout Course is now available in an online format with new interactive features. “You get everything included with the DVD version, plus some,” says Sporty’s Academy President Eric Radtke. The Garmin G1000 Checkout is a perfect complement to in-aircraft training with an instructor, covering everything you need to know to be safe, […]
Retired pilot publishes memoir
“The Rogue Aviator: In the Back Alleys of Aviation” was recently published. Writing under the pen name Ace Abbott, the retiree tells tales of his life as a pilot, which began in 1965 when he began his career as an F-4 Phantom pilot in the Air Force. He returned to the civilian world in 1971, […]
Yay! Planes lands at Amazon.com
Yay! Planes, touted as a DVD for kids who love airplanes, is now available at Amazon.com. In the DVD, preschoolers get to learn about the shapes that make up an airplane from hosts Argyle & Jim, two socks who live in lost luggage. Children will learn the ABCs using the words that pilots use for […]
CigPen ashtray converters available
Now available at Aircraft Spruce is the CigPen ashtray converters. CigPen installation is easy: Pull the ashtray out, peel the double stick tape, insert and press in CigPen. CigPen was designed to hold two standard pencils or pens along with a Mini Mag Lite AAA. Fits C-150, 172, 182, and Cardinals. A Cessna 150 door […]
Cheetah XLS newest SLSA
The Cheetah XLS has received its Special-Light Sport Aircraft certification. Midwest Sport Aviation, LLC has been designated as the U.S. assembly center and distributor for the Cheetah XLS by Rainbow Aircraft (Pty) Ltd. of South Africa. The Cheetah XLS is a high-wing tube and fabric aircraft. It is available Ready to Fly at prices beginning […]
Rinaldi elected NATCA president
Paul M. Rinaldi, an 18-year veteran air traffic controller from Washington-Dulles Tower, won a runoff election Sept. 17 to become the new president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA). Rinaldi, who served as executive vice president since 2006, will take office Oct. 17 to begin his three-year term as the sixth president in […]
FAA approves first U.S. ground based augmentation system
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The FAA has approved Honeywell’s Smartpath Precision Landing System, clearing the way for increased safety and efficiency at airports by providing precise navigation service based on the global positioning system (GPS). The first U.S.-approved system, located in Memphis, Tenn., will become operational early next year. “The approval of Honeywell’s system marks the […]
‘The First Thing I Knew, I Was Flying’
The first in a series of events to celebrate Wisconsin’s Centennial of Flight is slated for Sept. 29. On Nov. 4, 1909, Arthur Pratt Warner flew a Curtiss aircraft from a farmer’s field in Beloit, Wisconsin, bringing Wisconsin into the age of aviation. To celebrate this history-making flight, the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame has […]