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General Aviation News
According to author Dean Billing: Reading Ben Visser's blog, "More questions about ethanol," reminded me that December is the month the EPA is supposed to set the ethanol quotas for the next year.
For the first time in several years, the EPA has published the quotas in accordance with the schedule set in the law EISA 2007. The EPA Final Renewable Fuel Standards for 2017 can be found here at the EPA website.
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FLYING Magazine
I seldom experience déjà vu in my aerial life, though it lurks around every corner of my ground-bound existence. Enough changes from flight to flight to find something fresh in every airborne encounter, and the shift in perspective makes even old haunts seem entirely foreign when seen from above. But here and now, with the sun glinting just so off the rippled surface of the Sea of Cortez and the dark, jagged spine of the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir looming to the west, I am hit with a powerful sense of having been in this exact spot before.
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AVweb
John Glenn, a lifelong pilot and public figure who is best known as the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, died recently at 95. The retired military airman and four-term U.S. senator was hospitalized in Columbus, Ohio, in declining health. Glenn, a native of Cambridge in eastern Ohio, is the state's "ultimate hometown hero, and his passing today is an occasion for all of us to grieve," Ohio Gov.
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I Fly America
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1If you become a Lending Club customer and elect to share your contact information with IFA, you'll enjoy a free IFA membership with special member benefits that promote flying safety, affordability, growth, and fun. This free membership is automatic for the duration of your loan and helps support IFA. Visit www.iflyamerica.org to learn more.
Source: FAA Safety Briefing, By Paul Cianciolo
If you've decided to fly this winter — and not flee or fold up shop — then it's time to dig your airplane out of the snow and give it a good checkup. Here are some tips to help you and your airplane bear the cold and have a safe winter flying season.
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I Fly America
On Jan. 17, 2002, about 0700 eastern standard time, a Mooney M20J, registered to a private individual, operating as a Title 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight, crashed into an orange grove in the vicinity of Lake Placid, Florida. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The aircraft was destroyed and the private-rated pilot, the sole occupant, sustained minor injuries. The flight was originating from a private airstrip 4 miles southwest of the city of Lake Placid at the time of the accident.
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I Fly America
Access IFA through Facebook. You will be able to read the latest news from IFA, network with other IFA members, and connect with fellow aviators by sharing your favorite aviation photos and flying destinations.
If you're not already using Facebook, it's easy to set up your own free account. And, once you're on Facebook, and accessing the IFA page, you can easily invite your friends to join you as well. Visit us on Facebook and make sure to "Like" us today!
AVweb
Aeronautical decision-making (ADM) is essentially the mental process of gathering and evaluating information pertinent to a flight; listing the options and their attendant risks; and then choosing the best alternatives. It is an iterative process due to the nature of the changing variables inherent in flight.
ADM is often a relatively simple and subliminal process if we are out for that $100 hamburger on a beautiful Saturday morning. However, when you have a long cross-country and weather ahead of you (and some commitments on the other end), it takes on a far greater significance.
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General Aviation News
Before the flight in the experimental Thorp T-18, the pilot unbolted and rebolted the pilot's seat from its middle position to the forward position.
He did not check to see if the flight control stick movement would be restricted in this new configuration.
During the takeoff roll, the plane would not rotate when he moved the flight control stick aft.
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AVweb
Updated software for the Lynx NGT-9000 series of ADS-B transponders produced by L-3 Communications offers Stormscope compatibility, improved terrain and traffic collision warnings via aural alerts, and, for larger GA aircraft, dual transponder configurations. Originally released in 2015, the Lynx transponders provide access to ADS-B In data directly from a touchscreen interface on the panel mount transponder — an important feature for pilots wanting traffic and weather in the cockpit, but whose aircraft are not equipped with a modern MFD and who don't wish to keep an iPad accessible in flight.
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Plane & Pilot
Defining winter by the severity of cold weather on the North American continent can be a difficult task. In most years, anything south of a line through Atlanta, Little Rock, Oklahoma City, Santa Fe and Los Angeles has a good chance of a modest winter. Any location above 35 degrees north latitude can reasonably expect colder conditions. In this case, we're not talking about the extremes of frigid temperatures, say, colder than -30 degrees F. It's possible to operate in far more severe conditions — Alaskan bush pilots do it all the time — but we're not considering those instances for the moment.
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