The National Air Transportation Foundation (NATF) has named the winners of its Dan L. Meisinger Sr. Memorial Learn to Fly Scholarship and its Pioneers of Flight Scholarship. NATF annually awards academic and flight training scholarships to assist outstanding candidates in the pursuit of careers in aviation service businesses. Marcus Kaleb Phillips, a student at the […]
Open House slated at L45
EAA Chapter 71 will hold its annual Open House and fly-in Saturday, June 1, at Bakersfield Municipal Airport (L45). All aircraft are welcome, according to organizers. The event will include Harmon Rocket Reunion. On display are expected to be experimentals, sailplanes, helicopters, and kids activities, including a Young Eagles rally. Also scheduled are seminars for […]
Poor fuel management brings down Mooney
Aircraft: Mooney M20R Injuries: 3 Serious. Location: Ravenna, Ohio. Aircraft damage: Substantial. What reportedly happened: According to the pilot and pilot-rated passenger, the airplane’s engine lost power while in level flight. The pilot switched fuel tanks and attempted to restart the engine without success. During the forced landing, the right wing hit a tree at […]
Protect yourself from ‘get-there-itis’
By BRENT OWENS It’s a fancy name for “get-there-itis” — plan continuation bias, which is an unconscious cognitive bias to continue the original plan in spite of changing conditions — and it can be deadly for general aviation pilots. Plan continuation bias was identified in a NASA Ames human factors study from 2004 which analyzed […]
FAA administrator: Sequestration not over yet…
FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said at a hearing that while he is grateful for the law Congress passed to end air traffic controller furloughs and stave off contract tower defunding, it “does not end the sequester. We will not enjoy the benefits or the stability that the FAA reauthorization provides until we find a sensible […]
Their favorite week of the year…
The folks at Calhoun Air Center in Texas have posted a video on their favorite week of the year…check it out here. WOAW 2013 from Jasmine Gordon on Vimeo.
New Orleans FBO hosts B-17
NEW ORLEANS – Hawthorne Global Aviation Services, an FBO at Lakefront Airport in New Orleans, will host the Texas Raiders, an authentically restored World War II B-17 Bomber owned and operated by the Commemorative Air Force, on the weekend of June 1-2. This special warbird will be with Hawthorne Global at its newly renovated facility […]
Pilot asks for help to publish children’s book
Georgia pilot Michael Badger has launched a new project on Kickstarter to fund publishing of “Pilot Tails High Flying Adventures for Kids,” a children’s book set during the 1930s Golden Age of Aviation. Pilot Tails will be a 36 page hardcover 11 x 8.5 full color book professionally printed and bound, henoted. The story follows […]
Arlington Flight Services upgrades
ARLINGTON, Wash. — Arlington Flight Services, Inc. – the Avfuel-branded FBO at Arlington Municipal Airport (AWO), approximately 50 miles north of Seattle – is seeing an uptick in business as it and the airport continue to invest in improvements, including the availability of jet fuel, ramp construction, and the addition of self-serve fuel tanks. “We […]