“An FAA investigation is conducted by non-flying types who take six months to itemize the mistakes made by a crew that had six seconds to do something.” — Anonymous “If you build a mile of road you can go a mile. If you build a mile of runway you can go anywhere in the world.” […]
Just not enough…ADS-B can’t solve flight delays alone
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The FAA issued a notice of proposed rule making calling for aircraft to be equipped for satellite-based traffic control by the year 2020, amid Congressional, media and public clamoring for quick solutions to the worst period of flight delays in the history of aviation. Even the outgoing FAA administrator acknowledged that many […]
Should I lean while taxiing?
QUESTION: I have had instructors insist that I lean the engine while taxiing my O-320 Lycoming. My current Citabria has a JPI 700 engine analyzer with fuel flow. In the testing that I have done, the EGT will change less than 20° and fuel flow less than 0.1 gallon when adjusting mixture at less than […]
The difference between 100/130 and 100LL
Dennis writes that he’s been been buying 100LL for many years and thought that 100/130 was different from 100LL. He remembers buying 100/130 one time and it was green, not blue like 100LL. He also noted that the chart for adding TCP to the fuel calls for more additive when 100/130 is used than when 100LL is used.
Passenger’s attempts to help end in emergency landing
Power loss for undetermined reasons and the pilot mistakenly shutting down the operating engine when the passenger interfered with the rudder pedals.
The Google Prize
Google, the online everything company, is offering a prize that could reach $30 million to anyone who can send an unmanned vehicle to the Moon, land it there successfully, keep it running through the night, discover ice, transmit data back to Earth, and complete several other interesting tasks by 2012. Like Google itself, the prize […]
A new control tower stands tall
A ribbon cutting on Sept. 25 officially opened the new control tower at Easton, Maryland’s Newnam Field (ESN). Controllers went to work two days later, learning procedures for the state’s second-busiest airport. The tower is scheduled to become operational Oct. 26, almost a month earlier than originally planned. Easton’s is a contract tower, operated under […]
Jacksonville repeals ordinance that bans homebuilding
Education and persistence have paid off for members of the Experimental Aircraft Association in Jacksonville, Fla. For more than a year, EAA members have been fighting a city ordinance that prohibited the parking, storing, repairing, building and operating of aircraft and airboats in residential neighborhoods. On Sept. 25 the City Council voted to repeal the […]
New GA terminal on tap for New Bern, N.C.
Spring will bring a new general aviation facility to Craven Regional Airport (EWN) in New Bern, North Carolina. The bid for construction of the 4,000-square-foot general aviation terminal was recently awarded to local contractor Brydge and Lee Inc. The facility will house FBO Tidewater Air Services, Inc. “The new facility will be twice the size […]