The FAA has approved the extension of the service life of the Eclipse 500 and 550 aircraft to 20,000 hours/20,000 cycles with unlimited calendar life. This provides the typical Eclipse Jet owner with over 50 years of safe operation and improved airframe residual value, according to company officials. “To reach this goal, Eclipse invested hundreds […]
Patient Air Lift Services reaches milestone
Patient Air Lift Services (PALS), a nonprofit volunteer pilot organization, recently completed its 2,000th flight. Pilot Tony Braddock flew cancer patient, Olivia Chin, from Binghamton, N.Y., to the Million Air terminal at Westchester Airport, N.Y. Not only did he fly her to the airport, he acted as an “auto pilot” and drove her to Cornell […]
Price cut for Solent Flying Boat Experience
The Oakland Aviation Museum in California is now accepting reservations for the Solent Flying Boat Experience. This two-hour evening experience offers guests an immersion into the luxury of food and service provided during the Golden Age of travel. The gourmet menu is the same as that served originally by British Overseas Airways Corporation on the […]
IMC Club releases chapter training video
The IMC Club International, a membership-based organization focused on instrument rated pilots and flight instructors with a network of chapters throughout the nation, has released a 30-minute training DVD on how to start and run an IMC Club Chapter. The viewer gets to see an introduction by the IMC Club founder and Club President Radek […]
Grass compromises Waco’s wing
Aircraft: Waco Classic YMF-F5C. Injuries: None. Location: Charleston, Ill. Aircraft damage: Substantial. What reportedly happened: The pilot performed a precautionary landing in a field because he thought the engine was running rough. After the landing, he decided that the airplane was airworthy, and attempted to take off from a nearby gravel road. During the takeoff […]
Frugal Flying
Do you have any tips on how to save money while flying? We are collecting them from our readers for an upcoming special issue. What have you learned that will be helpful to other pilots about how to save money — on anything from training to buying an aircraft (or renting) to operations, maintenance, upgrades, […]
The show must go on
GUEST EDITORIAL By PHILIP HANDLEMAN Sequestration is forcing the Pentagon to slash $41 billion this year on top of the $487 billion reduction in defense spending already mandated over the next 10 years. Resultantly, a cruel triage within the Defense Department has taken hold. Communities across America are waking to the reality that their scheduled […]
Turn your flights into a work of art
Sporty’s now can create a custom framed print showing the track map of all IFR flights you made in a time period up to one year. Using data from Flight Aware, this print shows all IFR flights, including departure and destination airport identifiers and the actual route flown. “Then we add a custom-engraved plaque with […]
Five new aviation history websites launched
Delta Mike Airfield has launched five related websites that celebrate the aircraft and people who landed and signed the Golden Age Airfield Registers at Clover Field, Santa Monica, Calif., Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, Calif., Parks Field, East St. Louis, Ill., Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Pitcairn Field, Willow Grove, Pa. Each interactive site […]