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The New Mexico Pilots Association will hold its annual mountain flying clinic in Roswell, N.M., Sept. 23-25. The clinic includes three hours of ground school taught by an FAA Aviation Safety Counselor experienced in mountain flying and three hours of flying in your plane with an experienced mountain flying CFI.   Cost of flying in […]

Rand Peck has written a new tailwheel instruction manual for pilots who “yearn to fly a Piper Cub or a Luscombe or a Champ on a warm summer day,” as he writes. Just published, Peck’s “Tailwheel Training Manual” is written in a style that is fun to read and easy to understand, but which offers […]

There is no such thing as a little ice, say officials at the National Air Transportation Association, pointing out that de-icing season is right around the corner. To be sure that line techs, ground personnel, flight crews and dispatch personnel can comply with FAA and Transport Canada requirements, NATA is offering a series of de-icing […]

FlightSafety International and the Mayo Clinic are offering a new hypoxia awareness training program at FlightSafety Learning Centers. The program was developed by the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research and FlightSafety’s simulation and courseware developers. It is conducted without using hypobaric chambers. Hypoxia is caused by a lack of oxygen or the inability […]

Skytech, Inc. has delivered its 250th Piper PA-46 aircraft.  The aircraft was delivered in early June to Michael Bell, a real estate and insurance executive from Rockville, Md. The PA-46 designation applies to the Piper Malibu, which previously used a Continental engine, the Mirage (Malibu with a Lycoming engine) and the Pratt & Whitney turboprop […]

Elliott Aviation has received an FAA STC to install Honeywell’s Runway Awareness and Advisory System (RAAS), along with windshear alerting, in Citation models 560 Ultra and 560XL Excel. RAAS offers a significant safety enhancement to Honeywell’s Mark VII Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) and can be added to existing or new installations. It provides […]

Aviation Industry veteran Brendon Docherty has established Docherty Aviation LLC to assist corporations and individuals with business aircraft transactions and strategic planning. Docherty and his team provide needs analyses, turnkey transaction assistance, aircraft brokerage services and fractional share assistance. Docherty Aviation, LLC is in Northfield, Ill., just north of Chicago. For more information: 847-832-0548.

Professional Instrument Courses, Inc. of Essex, Conn., a pioneer in the 10-day instrument course, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Founded in 1980, the company is best known for its personalized 10-day instrument rating course presented at a student’s location anywhere in the United States. P.I.C. sends a professional instructor with a portable flight […]

Sportsplanes.com has inked an agreement to market the German-made Ikarus C42 in North America through its Sport Aircraft Regional Centers. The C42 complies with the new Light Sport Aircraft criteria and can be flown by sport pilots and used for sport pilot training. It will be introduced at EAA AirVenture 2005. Already a popular design […]