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AVweb
The U.S Senate's version of FAA reauthorization legislation, introduced this week, includes measures supported by general aviation such as medical reform and streamlining for aircraft certification. Spinning off air traffic control services from the FAA, however, is no longer part of the picture after the House shelved its version of the bill. U.S. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, introduced the bill along with fellow committee leaders.
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By Ryan Clark
 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently met with U.S. President Barack Obama to address the barriers that have arisen for tourists and businesses wishing to cross the U.S.-Canada border. During a televised news conference, the two world leaders outlined ways travel and trade could be both eased and encouraged in the near future, whether by land, rail or air. Events earlier this year proved just how tenuous travelers' freedom to cross the U.S.-Canada border can be.
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AVweb
The FAA has determined that Huntington Beach, California-based avionics manufacturer Ameri-King Corporation has manufactured, sold or distributed parts and articles for installation on FAA type-certificated aircraft that did not conform to an approved design, but were otherwise represented as FAA-approved.
As a result, the agency has issued an emergency cease and desist order to Ameri-King, while terminating its TSOA and PMA certifications.
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By Susan Parson, reprinted with permission from FAA Safety Briefing
Trust, but verify! While President Ronald Reagan popularized this Russian proverb in a very different context, it is also excellent advice for pilots who fly rental or jointly-owned aircraft.
When it comes to owner-flown aircraft, pilots have the advantage of knowing exactly how an aircraft has been operated and maintained. With rental and jointly-owned aircraft, on the other hand, the pilot has to place a certain amount of trust in both the fellow pilots of that aircraft and its owner or operator. After all, the regulations specifically state that the owner or operator of the aircraft has primary responsibility for maintaining it in an airworthy condition (14 CFR 91.403).
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| IFA pilot quiz — Miscellaneous, part 2
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I Fly America
1. The "J" in Piper J-3 Cub stands for:
a. Normal progression of letters as model designs advanced
b. Walter Jamouneau, new designer when W.T. Piper bought the Taylor Aircraft Company
c. The model number of the engine
2. During World War II, Piper Cub L-4 aircraft were officially named:
a. Light Observation Vehicles
b. Multi-Purpose Air Machines
c. Grasshoppers
Continue the quiz and find out the answers.
I Fly America
The pilot canceled the IFR flight plan as the aircraft crossed the VOR and reported the airport in site. The last radio contact with Air Traffic Control was at 0935:16. The crew did not report any problems before or during the accident flight. The distance from the VOR to the airport was 4 nautical miles. Witnesses saw the airplane enter right traffic at a low altitude, for a landing on runway 36, then turn right from base leg to final, less than 1/2-mile from the approach end of the runway. Witnesses saw the airplane pitch up nose high, and the right wing drop. The airplane than struck trees west of the runway, struck wires, caught fire, and impacted on a hard surface road.
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AVweb
Officials at the Germanwings airline couldn't have done anything to prevent last year's fatal crash, according to the final report issued yesterday, because they were not informed by anyone — "neither the co-pilot himself, nor by anybody else, such as a physician, a colleague, or family member" — that Andreas Lubitz was suffering from mental-health problems at the time of the flight.
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The Grand Island Independent
According to author Alan Corr: Here in Nebraska, our land is our livelihoods — farms and ranches cover 92 percent of the state's total land area. Agricultural production in Nebraska accounts for $22.6 billion of the Gross State Product and supports nearly a quarter of the state's workforce, but because our farms and are so expansive, small aircraft help us to get food on the table for our own families and for citizens around us country, and often, the world.
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CNN
The French town of Les Sables d'Olonne is no stranger to ambitious missions to harness the forces of nature.
It's best known as the departure and arrival point of the Vendee Globe, the notoriously tough round-the-world nonstop solo sailing race.
Maybe that explains why it's here, far from the world's major centers of aircraft manufacturing, that a team of visionaries is readying a ground-breaking new aircraft concept.
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General Aviation News
Evoking the open-air feeling of sport plane flying from the 1930s, the single-seat Pober Pixie, with its parasol wing and open cockpit, is a playful and happy-spirited flying machine.
NX321PX was completed by co-owners Rick Gritters and Tom Vander Linden of Pella, Iowa.
Designed by Paul Poberezny in 1974, the Pixie's appealing appearance is similar to a Heath LNB-4, and both aircraft have a Clark Y airfoil.
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CNN
We live in an era of fast technological change: self-driving cars, drones, artificial intelligence.
Yet the tube-shaped subsonic airliners we keep flying on wouldn't look out of place in the 1960s.
Take, for example, the Boeing 737.
A 50-year-old design that remains one of the workhorses of the airline industry.
And going strong: Its latest iteration, the Boeing 737 MAX is expected to enter service next year.
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