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As We Fill Our Skies with UAV’s
One of the unwritten basics of flight is that everyone has a life-and-death stake in midair collisions. That rule has been turned upside-down by the CIA, the military, and now policing organizations by using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The link below takes you to a story at Defensetech about a collision between a UAV and ...
Are Digital Charts Supposed to Subsidize Printed Charts?
Five million dollars is a lot of money. And apparently that and more is what the FAA has made off of sectional, airport/facility directories (A/FD), IR enroute charts, terminal charts, and coded instrument flight procedures. We know of the five million dollars because that is what the FAA is now managing to lose in their ...
Angry Mica to Press for Private Airport Screening Option
This is another story about the TSA and its arrogance. In this case the TSA is doing something that goes against the original intent of the lawmakers that created the agency. If the TSA won't listen to them, what hope do we have?
Work Begins on Plan to Lower A-B Fatal Accident Rate
EAA Government & Advocacy Specialist David Oord was in Sebring, Florida, last week meeting with several task forces and committees regarding light-sport aircraft certification and GA safety initiatives. In these ongoing collaborations with government and industry entities, EAA plays a key role, evolving standards for light-sport aircraft and working with the FAA to lower the ...
VFR Flight Plans – Still a Good Idea?
Terri Sipantzi of Precision Windsports talks about how the benefits of filing flight plans have been reduced over time and how the risks have gone up.
Bever Borne, Air-Tech, Inc.
With the US elections today, Bever Borne comes on to talk about how directly politics enters into a pilot's life at all levels. Intrusive TSA officials, FAA personel who don't understand sport aviation, and an EPA that has effectively made it impossible for many peoople to get ethanol-free fuel are all symptoms of a government that tries to micromange so much of our life, but has grown so much that it can't do even basic things well.
Earl Lawrence, Experimental Aircraft Association
Earl Lawrence is moving from the EAA to the FAA. We talk with him for the last time as the Vice President of Industry and Regulatory Affairs because in a short time he will be the Manager of the FAA's Small Airplane Directorate in Kansas City. We talk about his old role at the EAA and how it has prepared him for service with the FAA as well as what his new job will entail.