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As 2016 comes to a close, IFA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the IFA American Flyer a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Wednesday, Jan. 4.
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General Aviation News
From May 11: The Cessna 150 departed on the local night flight in instrument flight rules conditions with 7 miles visibility and overcast clouds at 300 feet above ground level (agl).
Radar data showed it departed the runway, made one flight around the traffic pattern, and landed six minutes later.
It departed again to the west, did not remain in the traffic pattern, and reached an altitude of 740 feet agl. It made a left turn, which tightened as it descended about 1,900 feet per minute.
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Popular Mechanics
From Feb. 3: A huge influx of general aviation air traffic is expected to hit the San Francisco Bay Area during the first week of February in anticipation of Super Bowl 50. While you're watching football, the Air Force will be watching the skies in case an errant pilot wanders into the protected airspace surrounding the big game.
But it takes practice to intercept a slow moving Cessna with a big twin-engine supersonic fighter jet. The California Air National Guard and the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) have been busy preparing should such an encounter be required.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
From Feb. 3: The single-engine Cessna aroused suspicion at the Yellowstone Regional Airport even before it landed.
The pilot didn't radio the airport before landing, prosecutors say. And, as the Cessna taxied to a hangar, they say the pilot and a passenger were lowering sunshades over the windows. That struck officials as odd, considering the plane was about to be stored indoors in a hangar.
Now the plane is at the heart of a legal dispute over whether the federal government abused its powers in seizing property — or whether the pilot and his friend were part of an elaborate criminal enterprise.
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AVweb
From April 29: Engine manufacturers and airframers have long worried that the FAA would like the authority to declare the replacement fuel for 100LL as applicable for fleetwide use. But at Aero in Friedrichshafen, Germany, Lycoming's Michael Kraft told AVweb that the FAA reauthorization bill currently snaking through Congress has specific language giving the FAA administrator power to declare a fuel suitable for the entire GA fleet.
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AVweb
From Sept. 14: Investigators who probed the ditching of USAir 1549 into the Hudson River in 2009 say the recently released movie about the event portrays them in an inaccurate and unfair light. The movie, Sully, directed by Clint Eastwood, was released over the weekend in U.S. theaters.
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The Atlantic
From March 9: Thanks to many people who have written in, over the past 24 hours, about another parachute-save episode involving a Cirrus airplane. Recently, over Republic airport on Long Island, a father who had been taking his teenaged daughter to see colleges in Rhode Island had an engine failure while coming back to New York. He pulled the parachute; the airplane came down safely; and then he and his daughter walked away.
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I Fly America
From July 20: At 1510 eastern daylight time, a Beech 24R was substantially damaged while attempting to land at Fulton County Airport (USE), Wauseon, Ohio. The certificated airline transport pilot and the two passengers were fatally injured. No flight plan was filed for the flight that originated at Oakland-Troy Airport (7D2), Troy, Michigan, about 1415. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the personal flight conducted under 14 CFR Part 91. The pilot, along with his wife and daughter, flew from Minnesota to Troy to attend a wedding the following day.
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Plane & Pilot
From Nov. 30: According to author John Levinson, MD, PhD: Climbing through 16,000 for 23,000 feet, it dawned on me that I was feeling weird. It wasn't sudden or severe, but once it had my attention, hypoxemia was my first thought. Hypo is low or below. A hypodermic needle goes below the dermis, the skin. Ox is oxygen, of course, and emia refers to blood. Hypoxemia means low oxygen in the blood, and it's an efficient killer.
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