Earlier this year, Jet Aviation was awarded a 30-year lease for a 17-acre site by the City of Los Angeles to establish an FBO at Van Nuys Airport (VNY). The company has since been granted approval by Los Angeles World Airports to begin operating, and is now offering FBO services from an interim terminal. Offerings include […]
Lightspeed Aviation introduces flight bag
Lightspeed Aviation has introduced the DeLaurentis leather flight bag. The messenger bag is named for modern aviation adventurer and author Robert DeLaurentis. To help kick off the launch, Lightspeed is offering a free autographed copy of DeLaurentis’s new book “Zen Pilot: Flight of Passion and the Journey Within” with the first 100 DeLaurentis flight bags ordered. The DeLaurentis […]
Lundeen appointed president of Seeker Aircraft
Seeker Aircraft has appointed Ed Lundeen as president of Seeker Aircraft and managing director of Seabird Aviation Australia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Seeker Aircraft. Prior to joining Seeker Aircraft, Lundeen served as executive vice president, business operations for Eclipse Aerospace. He previously served as the Supply Deputy Division Leader for Los Alamos National Laboratory and is a […]
Aircraft Spruce carries Tempest PowerFlight products
Aircraft Spruce now carries the Tempest PowerFlite Series, which is a collaborative effort from Tempest and Aerospace Components. Tempest is the only aftermarket direct replacement alternator available for late model Cessna aircraft, according to company officials. Tempest PowerFlite has starter motors that are FAA-PMA approved and eligible on TCM engines.
Fuel exhaustion leads to forced landing
The pilot stated that he calculated that the Piper PA 24-250 had sufficient fuel on board for about 90 minutes of flight; he estimated that the flight to his intended destination would take about 70 minutes. The flight encountered weather as it approached its destination, so he decided to circle the area until the weather cleared. Once […]
Pictures of the day: Santa visits KFDK
More than 300 families gathered at Frederick Municipal Airport (KFDK) in Maryland Nov. 19 to welcome Santa Claus at the second annual Paws and Planes: Holiday at the Airport. After Santa arrived at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association National Aviation Community Center by plane, kids lined up to meet him and Mrs. Claus, enjoyed aviation […]
A big idea at a little airport
Myricks Airport (1M8) in Berkley, Massachusetts, is a small general aviation airport privately owned by Murray Randall. Its one grass runway averages 88 flights a week and there are nine aircraft based at the field. But there is a big mission at the former cow pasture turned airport: To preserve the grass runways that abound […]
Video: Trying out ForeFlight’s Synthetic Vision feature
Gene Lee of The HD Pilot recently posted this video, which shows he and a friend using the Synthetic Vision feature of ForeFlight Mobile during a recent flight. He notes the feature is a “very intriguing tool to experiment with. At night, or in poor visibility, ‘seeing’ what’s out ahead of you could be an absolute life […]
Stabilized approach study launches
On the heels of the NTSB’s Nov. 14 release of its “Most Wanted” list of transportation safety improvements that included general aviation loss of control, the University of North Dakota, in partnership with the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Air Safety Institute (ASI), have launched a study of the use of a continuous turning approach […]