The Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE) has uploaded the high definition video of the Growth Panel at the recent Training Reform Symposium. Moderated by Cessna Pilot Center Manager Julie Filucci, the hour-long presentation includes remarks by AOPA Director of Flight Training Initiatives Jennifer Storm; Sporty’s Academy President Eric Radtke; Redbird Flight Simulations Founder […]
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Legal challenge planned against DOT
The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) and Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) say they will mount a legal challenge to the decision by the Department of Transportation (DOT) to dismantle the Block Aircraft Registration Request (BARR) program. The three associations will seek an injunction to prevent the decision from taking […]
Training reform preliminary report released
The Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE) has published its preliminary report stemming from the Pilot Training Reform Symposium. Thirty recommendations generated during the symposium have been consolidated into six project proposals.The recommendations are: Conduct a thorough general aviation fatal accident root cause analysis to pinpoint underlying accident causality as a means to create […]
GA seeks relief for losses from TFRs
Presidents of six of GA’s alphabet groups have asked the Transportation Security Administration to work with general aviation on ways to reduce business losses sustained under airspace restrictions during presidential travel, according to a report at AOPA.org, which gives as one example at FBO a Midway Airport that loses an average of $60,000 a day […]
Illinois kicks off airport economic impact study
The Illinois Department of Transportation is launching a new study to determine the economic impact that the more than 100 Illinois airports statewide bring to their communities, according to a report in the Quad City Times. The 18-month study will update a similar study conducted in 2002.
Hunt inducted into Florida Aviation Hall of Fame
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s former president Jack Hunt was inducted into the Florida Aviation Hall of Fame at the Florida Air Museum May 21. Hunt, who died in 1984, was Embry-Riddle’s longest-serving president. He was represented at the induction ceremony by his widow Lynn Hunt-Doten and her husband, former Embry-Riddle vice president Eric Doten. Hunt served […]
Landmark Aviation makes donation to Ronald McDonald House
Landmark Aviation has made a $75,000 donation to Ronald McDonald House Charities of San Diego to support the newly built Ronald McDonald House in San Diego, which provides a “home away from home” for families with sick children being treated at local hospitals. The donation was made as part of the company’s “Landmark Cares” corporate […]
First flight: Teen Flight’s RV-12
In late 2009, a group of men in Aurora, Ore. — all successful in business, all deeply involved in aviation – were discussing a frequent lament: How to interest young people in flying? Maybe it was the expense, maybe it was some sort of cultural divide, maybe aviation seemed so remote and unreachable that teenagers […]
SEF gets $1.5 million to extend runway
Florida’s Sebring Regional Airport (SEF), home to the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo, has received the green light from the Florida State Legislature to proceed with a 1,476-foot extension to runway 18-36 with the approval of a 90-acre land acquisition. A $1.5 million state legislative appropriation will go to the airport as a result of the […]