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AVweb
Friends and colleagues of a Vancouver Island flight instructor paralyzed in a training accident are rallying around her trying to ensure she achieves a new dream of somehow continuing to work in aviation. Kristen Ursel, an instructor at the Victoria Flying Club, was with a student in January when their 172 clipped powerlines after a touch and go and ended up in brush at the end of the runway at the Duncan, British Columbia Airport.
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Yahoo!
A "Walter Mitty" pilot who illegally flew aeroplanes for six years without a licence has been spared jail.
Wesley Tierney, 25, lied about being a qualified pilot and spent his spare time flying his friends — including two children — around in light aircraft.
A court heard that Tierney had learned how to operate planes by becoming a qualified glider and gliding instructor.
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SKIES
When Bob Dengler took delivery of the first Bell 429 Global Ranger in Canada back in 2010, he began thinking of using the aircraft to circumnavigate the globe. Dengler, now 76 and retired from a successful career as a mining contractor, was upgrading from the Bell 206L-4 LongRanger he had flown since 2007, and he was impressed with the Canadian-built 429.
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Calgary Herald
Students with Mount Royal University's aviation program learned that the school's two remaining Tecnam twin-engined airplanes will remain grounded while an investigation continues into a plane crash that killed two instructors.
MRU flight instructors Jeff Bird, 35, and Reynold Johnson, 64, were flying exercises Feb. 13 in one of the school's three Tecnam aircraft when they crashed in a wooded area near Cochrane.
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Auto Focus
A Dutch manufacturer says it has begun taking orders for a car-helicopter hybrid that will be delivered to the first customers late next year.
PAL-V says it designed the Liberty, as the Jetsons-esque flying car is known, for "successful people" who hate to waste time. And you'll have to be successful in order to pay the roughly $600,000 asking price attached to the low-volume Limited Pioneer Edition, which will be followed by a $400,000 model called the Liberty Sport.
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Plane & Pilot
If you're a pilot, you've probably been there. A busy flight suddenly gets too busy for you to keep up with. At first it's annoying, but at some point it can become a crisis, or worse.
Task saturation happens in many arenas. By definition, it's the mental bind we find ourselves in when we have too much to do without the time, skills or resources to pull it off.
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AVweb
According to author Joseph E. Burnside: There I was, sliding down from my cruising altitude toward my VFR destination, still 30 or so miles out. It had been a smooth ride, and Otto was following a heading and descending at the selected 400 fpm. I had let the power come up during the descent, along with airspeed. The big Continental in front of me was rumbling along at about 25 squared, still leaned for cruise altitude, and airspeed was well into the indicator’s yellow arc, That's when it got bumpy. Too bumpy.
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General Aviation News
According to author Theron Burton: Time was quickly ticking down to my day with the examiner for my private pilot check ride. I had mastered the steep turns, the frightening stalls and high performance landings and takeoffs.
I felt confident that my PPL (private pilot license) would be in hand soon, so I began the next step. I started to research buying an airplane.
After all, the whole point of learning to fly was to be able to travel and explore on my own terms.
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