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FLYING
Reacting to complaints from pilots and general aviation groups, the FAA has rescinded a notam published at the start of this month which had cautioned that, due to "military activity" in the Southeast U.S., ADS-B and TCAS could be unreliable throughout the region for the month of September.
In its place the FAA has published new notams that specify locations, altitudes, timeframes and equipment affected.
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General Aviation News
Though aerial crossing of the Atlantic was no longer a novelty by the mid-1930s, no round trip flight by airplane had yet taken place.
The first round trip by air was by the British airship R-34 in July 1919. This was just two months after the Navy-Curtiss NC-4 flying boat completed the first airplane crossing of the Atlantic and one month after British aviators Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in an airplane.
The first effort to fly a round trip across the Atlantic was during 1932 by the well-known Scottish aviator, James Mollison.
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I Fly America
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By Charlie Spence, Aviation Writer and IFA Member
Flicker vertigo can be unpleasant and produce dangerous reactions for the pilot. A light flickering at the rate of 4 to 20 cycles per second can produce this illusion. It can result in nausea, vomiting, or, on rare occasions — unconsciousness. It affects helicopter pilots more than those in fixed wing, propeller-driven aircraft, but both are susceptible.
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I Fly America
Here is a double quiz for you. Test your knowledge of these historic aviation events and also see if you can determine what connects all these questions.
1. What was the first city to call a field facility for flight an 'airport?'
a. Atlantic City, N.J.
b. Dayton, OH
c. Mineola, N.Y.
2. The first coast-to-coast air passenger service in the U.S. began in 1929, with just two passengers completing the entire trip and involving three companies. Name the three companies.
a. American, Transcontinental, and Eastern Airlines
b. Transcontinental, Western, and Eastern Airlines
c. Transcontinental Airlines and Pennsylvania and Santa Fe Railroads
Continue the quiz and find out the answers.
I Fly America
At 1445 Eastern Standard Time, a Beech 23 collided with trees and subsequently the ground, and burst into flames while maneuvering for an emergency landing following a reported loss of engine power near Macon, Georgia. The personal flight was operated by the pilot under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91 with no flight plan filed. Visual weather conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The airplane was destroyed, and the private pilot and his passenger received fatal injuries. The flight departed the Herbert Smart Airport in Macon, Georgia, at 1443.
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AVweb
The NTSB will hold a day-long forum addressing loss-of-control accidents in GA on Oct. 14 in Washington, D.C. Loss of control, one of the board's primary topics in accident reduction efforts this year, continues to be a top cause of GA fatalities. The upcoming event, "Humans and Hardware: Preventing Inflight Loss of Control in General Aviation," will examine the various types of accidents in the loss-of-control category, human performance factors, aeromedical issues, potential improvements in flight training and the use of technology such as angle-of-attack indicators to improve safety.
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General Aviation News
EPIC Aviation, a fuel supplier to the general and commercial aviation industries, reports it has dispatched more than 2 million gallons of aviation fuel since the beginning of July to FBOs and fire bases supporting aerial firefighting operations in the Western United States.
Aviation fuel and ground-support resources used in aerial firefighting operations have been in very high demand with multiple wildfires burning at the same time in California, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Washington.
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AVweb
If you're a YouTube aviation video junkie, you've probably seen this one of what's called a blade-out test. It's intended to prove that the containment around a high-bypass turbofan engine can prevent shrapnel from ricocheting outside the engine in the event that the fan loses one or more blades. Or the engine core comes asunder. It's an expensive test, since it involves trashing a multi-million dollar engine, and it's considered to be a big deal because uncontained failures are potential nightmares. Thankfully, they're rare.
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FLYING
According to author Stephen Pope: Flying isn't safe. I will admit that. But it's less dangerous today than it ever has been. It will be safer still five years from now. We should be celebrating this victory — but cautiously. Because we never want to slip back into our old habits and return to the bad old days when flying light airplanes was an exercise fraught with unacceptable risks.
In the old days we didn't have adequate weather information.
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