The NTSB recently issued four safety alerts for general aviation pilots and mechanics: Mastering Mountain Flying, Understanding Flight Experience (A rating alone cannot ensure safety: Training is key); Pilots: Perform Advanced Preflight After Maintenance; and Mechanics: Prevent Misrigging Mistakes. Each of the alerts, in PDF, includes an outline of the problem, summarizes related incidents and accidents, […]
Call for entries for Combs Gates award
DAYTON, Ohio — The National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) has officially made its nationwide “call for entries” for the 13th Annual Combs Gates Award. The $20,000 cash award is presented each year to an individual or group for a submitted project judged to be exemplary in the promotion and preservation of America’s air and space […]
Hartzell awarded TC for Bantam prop for Rotax engines
Hartzell Propeller has received a Type Certificate for the new two-blade Bantam propeller for use with the Rotax 912 and 914 four-stroke engines series, used mostly for light-sport and ultra light aircraft. The Hartzell Bantam propeller series consists of small, lightweight two- and three-blade propellers with a thin, wide chord and swept high performance airfoils. […]
Avidyne debuts remote-mount transponder with ADS-B Out
On opening day of the Aircraft Electronics Association convention, Avidyne introduced the AXP322 remote-mounted Mode S Extended Squitter Transponder with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Out. The AXP322 can be controlled by Avidyne’s IFD540 or IFD440 GPS/NAV/COMs, which also provide an approved GPS position input to the AXP322 for extended squitter ADS-B Out broadcasts. Avidyne previously certified […]
AEA convention kicks off today
DALLAS — More than 1,500 avionics manufacturers, repair stations, installers and other general aviation professionals have converged at the 58th annual Aircraft Electronics Association International Convention & Trade Show, which opened today at the Gaylord Texan Convention Center in Grapevine (Dallas), Texas. The four-day event, which goes until April 11, is the largest gathering of avionics manufacturers, […]
Fuel starvation during approach for Beech
The pilot of the Beech Debonair intended to land at the airport in San Manuel, Ariz., in order to refuel. He performed a 360° descending left turn to join the downwind leg of the pattern. As he began the turn to final he attempted to add power, but the engine did not respond. He turned […]
Picture of the day: How beautiful is that?
Rafael Cortes sent in this photo of him flying at Humacao, Puerto Rico. He adds: “How beautiful is that?”
The joy of seaplanes
By MIKE KINCAID Contrary to what some of the younger pilots I examine for the Single-Engine-Sea rating might think, I didn’t begin flying when seaplanes were first introduced. That honor goes to a Frenchman named Henri Fabre, who lifted off from the water in Southern France in 1908 (Glenn Curtiss began seaplane flights later that year […]
New seaplane book published
Mike Kincaid’s latest book, “Seaplaning,” has just been published. The book is the successor to “Seaplane Rating Basics,” which was published in December 2013. The new book is for “students, instructors, pilots, and seaplane lovers everywhere,” according to Kincaid. “It is the complete guide to earning your Single-Engine-Sea rating, and to keeping safe thereafter,” he adds. […]