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The FAA on Monday said the new David J. Hurley Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Warrenton, Virginia, is fully operational and ready to coordinate traffic flows across the national airspace system. “If you think of our national airspace system as an orchestra, the Command Center’s the conductor,” said Transportation Deputy Secretary John Porcari. […]

Giving in to pressure from the FAA and pilots’ groups, the Federal Communications Commission has officially abandoned a plan to ban the sale, manufacture or use of emergency locator transmitter beacons that transmit on 121.5 MHz. The FCC last June issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that sought to outlaw the use of 121.5-MHz ELTs […]

The disappearance of Air France Flight 447 over the deep water Atlantic while en route from Rio to Paris on June 1, 2009, shocked the world and left a web of mysteries. What happened to bring the Airbus A330 with 228 people aboard down in the middle of the dark night? Theories, many of them […]

In an interview with British magazine T3, Virgin Galactic chairman Richard Branson again did what we love about him: he waxed optimistic about the future of private commercial space flight. The launch a decade ago of a civilian manned space program in the United States seemed at the time to be a starry-eyed and quixotic […]

It might have been quickly forgotten as just another case of ramp rash at one of the world’s busiest airports if it wasn’t for an amateur video capturing the dramatic footage of an Air France Airbus A380 clipping the tail of a Comair regional jet and spinning it almost 90 degrees. The incident on Monday […]

(April 2011) AFTER WRITING THREE articles on the subject of fatigue I figured I had pretty much covered that topic. Then I started receiving e-mails and phone calls from Flying readers, more than I have ever received before. It is obvious that fatigue is a critical issue for many people. Paul Reeves described his own […]

After the tornado at Sun ‘n Fun destroyed or heavily damaged several Husky aircraft that Aviat brought to the show, another was lost in a crash while being flown back to the Aviat factory in Afton, Wyoming, only days after Sun ‘n Fun ended. The crash was reported on by the Laramie Boomarang online edition. […]

In a coup reminiscent of Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes, John and Martha King completely surprised their 35th anniversary King Schools Sweepstakes winner. After the Kings were invited to explore the hangar and 1978 Piper Arrow belonging to Rodney Mullinax at the airport in Mount Vernon, Illinois, John King asked if Rodney had ever considered getting […]

It turns out there’s a teensy bit more to the story of why a single-engine Piper Warrior made a precautionary landing on a Queens beach on Monday. According to police, 24-year-old pilot Jason Maloney got the idea from watching the TV show “Flying Wild Alaska,” which often depicts off-airport landings. An ATC recording of the […]

Cessna has joined with King Schools and Redbird Flight Simulations to develop a new pilot training program that couples guided video instruction and demonstrations with hands-on simulator work. Designed to give students a new way of practicing flight maneuvers, the program, called Guided Independent Flight Training (GIFT), kicks off in May and is exclusive to […]