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AVweb
Most everyone in the aviation industry found something to hate in the "skinny budget" released by the Trump administration. EAA, NBAA, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association and the Alliance for Aviation Across America all released statements opposing ATC privatization. EAA CEO & Chairman Jack J. Pelton in a written statement released said, "The Trump Administration released a budget proposal that confirms one of our greatest concerns regarding the future of U.S. general aviation: the potential separation of the FAA's Air Traffic Organization into an "independent, non-governmental organization."
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WHIO-TV
The anticipated rumble of 17 World War II B-25 Mitchell bombers will soar over Dayton, Ohio, next month to mark the 75th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid, officials said.
The airplanes are set to fly over Memorial Park at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at 2:30 p.m. April 18.
Two B-1B Lancer bombers from Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, will end the fly over, officials said.
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AVweb
According to author Rick Durden: A while ago I had a long, interesting discussion on the topic of preparing for inflight emergencies with a pilot whose day job was as a surgeon who trained surgeons. He had an interesting perspective on the subject based on how he taught aspiring cutters: He had them sit down and write down everything that could go wrong during an upcoming operation and then set out what should be done to deal with each anomaly. He asked whether flight instructors engaged in such a practice.
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Source: www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/2016/media/novdec2016.pdf, By Penny Giovanetti, D.O. Manager, Aerospace Medical Specialties Division
Q. How do I know how long I should wait to resume flying after I take a medication? Is there a standard waiting period?
A. There is no standard waiting period. A rule of thumb is to wait 5 dosing intervals. For example, if you take the medication every 4-6 hours, wait 30 hours (6 hours x 5 intervals) after the last dose. To be on the safe side, consult your AME. Medications may act differently in different people, and often the safety concern is not so much the medication itself, but the underlying condition for which you are taking the medication.
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I Fly America
1. The number of threshold stripes indicates the width of a runway. A runway 75 feet wide will have how many stripes?
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 8
2. On Aug. 7, 1980, an aircraft flew for two miles near Edwards Air Force Base. What was unusual about it?
- It was a drone with no pilot.
- It had freewheeling rotary blades.
- It was powered by pedals.
- It was solar powered.
Continue the quiz and find out the answers.
I Fly America
At 2030 hours Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 150J experienced a loss of engine power and made a forced landing in a vineyard approximately 2 miles northwest of the Sonoma Skypark Airport, Sonoma, California. The airplane was operated by the student pilot/owner under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91, and sustained substantial damage. The pilot, the sole occupant, was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the night cross-country flight, and no flight plan had been filed. The airplane had departed the Calaveras County-Maury Rasmussen Field Airport, San Andreas, California, about 1930, and was scheduled to terminate at the Sonoma Skypark Airport.
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Daily Local News
Be passionate about your work and every day is a dream. That is the philosophy adopted by Stephen Richards, who a year ago retired from his job and took ownership of Brandywine Flight School in West Goshen, Pennsylvania.
"I was a lawyer in a pharmaceutical company and as I turned 60, I thought 'if not now, when?'" Richards said from the flight school offices at the Brandywine Airport complex on Ward Avenue. "This is my passion."
That passion is seconded by longtime flight school owner Ted Behrle, who sold him the business.
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Plane & Pilot
There's a new G1000 in town, G1000 NXi. And while the name might imply a minor upgrade to the legendary flat-panel system, nothing could be further from the truth. NXi is a new ballgame.
Since its introduction a decade ago in the Cessna Citation Mustang and Skyhawk, Garmin's seminal flat-panel avionics suite has become the de facto standard in aircraft avionics, commanding a huge market share among owner-flown airplanes from two-seaters to light jets.
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Jalopnik
U.S. and Canadian authorities are rightfully spooked following a plane crash in Ontario, Canada. What's got them shook? There's absolutely no trace than anybody actually went down with the plane, sparking one of the weirdest mysteries of the year so far.
The alleged "ghost plane" was a rented Cessna 172 based out of Michigan, which went down into the snow near the north shore of Lake Superior around 11:30 p.m. near Marathon, Ontario, according to AVweb.com.
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General Aviation News
Humans have dreamed of flight for hundreds — if not thousands — of years. And today is no different from centuries ago. Want proof? BBC Culture's Fiona Macdonald wrote a marvelous story about the making of the book, "Aeronautics in the Backyard."
"He [Zhang Dousan] retrieved an engine from the wreckage of a light aircraft destroyed in a typhoon, and in 1998, the first plane he built flew continuously for 500 km. It was a light two-seater aircraft with a 6 m-long frame, and Zhang wrote 'I'm from Chaozhou. No striving, no win!' on the aerofoil."
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