The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Air Safety Institute (ASI) has released the first in a multi-part video series covering aviation weather, with an emphasis on preflight planning and en route weather evaluation. As the most complex variable in any flight, weather, and a pilot’s understanding of it, play a critical role in flight […]
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Auckland Aero Club newest Cessna Pilot Training Center
Oceania Aviation, parent company of Flightline Aviation Limited, New Zealand’s Textron Aviation partner for Cessna piston aircraft, reports that Auckland Aero Club has been approved as a Cessna Pilot Training Center. As a Cessna approved Pilot Training Center, Auckland Aero Club will receive support from the manufacturer, including ongoing training for the club’s instructors and the potential for […]
Bosco joins Women in Aviation staff
Cassandra Bosco has joined the Women in Aviation International staff as Education and Industry Relations Director. The position was created as part of the organization’s plan to grow WAI’s education offerings and reach out to youth and college and university students, WAI officials said. A founding board member of WAI and WAI member #3, Bosco’s background includes […]
The Triple Tree ’15 experience
The organizers at Triple Tree Aerodrome in Woodruff, S.C., have a pleasant problem. Their annual fly-in has such a remarkably good reputation in the flying community that expectations for more and better activities grow with each successful year. And the recently completed Sept. 9-13 event was no exception. This year more than 320 planes flew […]
Seaplane Pilots Association plans new HQ, seaplane base
The Seaplane Pilots Association Foundation has been awarded a 30-year lease on lakefront land at Gilbert Airport in Winter Haven, Florida, to build a public seaplane base and a new headquarters building — the first such facility in the association’s 44-year history. The Winter Haven City Council approved the lease at its monthly meeting Oct. […]
Enhanced technology improves CAP’s flood damage assessment in SC
COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Civil Air Patrol pilots photographing the flood damage in South Carolina began using a new tool in their emergency response arsenal — a Garmin Virb camera system that attaches to their planes’ wing strut. The cameras capture ground images directly below, which allows officials to make much faster use of the images. South Carolina Wing […]
TBM owners meet in Charleston
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Daher and the TBM Owners and Pilots Association (TBMOPA) report record attendance for its latest annual gathering Oct. 7-11, with more than 100 TBMs — including 20 new TBM 900s, as well as the predecessor TBM 850s and TBM 700s — arrived at Charleston Executive Airport (KJZI). TBMOPA’s meeting of its worldwide membership included three days of […]
New Hartzell props now flying on more than 20% of TBM fleet
Hartzell Propeller reported at the 15th annual TBM Owners and Pilots Association Convention held in Charleston, S.C., Oct. 7-11 it has delivered more than 150 swept airfoil five-blade props for Daher TBM 700/850/900 aircraft in the 18 months since receiving FAA type certificate approval. “Hartzell’s new high performance structural composite propellers are flying on more than 20% […]
FAA expands RPA Pathfinder efforts
The FAA has entered into a Pathfinder agreement with CACI International to evaluate how the company’s technology can help detect Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) in the vicinity of airports. In testimony recently given before the House Aviation Subcommittee, FAA Deputy Administrator Mike Whitaker said that flying an unmanned aircraft near a busy airfield poses an unacceptable […]