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In the 10 years I’ve been writing for Flying, I’ve told the stories of heroic, ridiculous, amusing, embarrassing, illegal, skilled, humanitarian, negligent and wonderful things we pilots do — stories about me, as well as people I’ve known as instructors, FAA inspectors and examiners, or simply as fellow pilots. In short, I’ve tried to be […]

After months of relentless mistreatment toward airport tenants, including evictions of aviation-related businesses, the city of Santa Monica is under investigation by the FAA, which is seeking to ensure the city is complying with its obligations with regard to the operation of the Santa Monica Airport. An FAA notice was issued only days after the […]

Tucson, Arizona-based Guardian Avionics on Tuesday received the first-ever FAA approval under the Non-Required Safety Enhancing Equipment (NORSEE) program to install noncertified products into certified aircraft. As outlined in PS-AIR-21.8-1602, Guardian is approved to mount all models of the Guardian Avionics iFDR panel mount line for the iPad and iPhone. The approval also allows all […]

In a Sunday editorial, the LA Times took on an aviation-education role for the public in the greater Los Angeles area by chastising the Santa Monica City Council as it attempts to “make the airport [Santa Monica] so inhospitable and difficult to use — essentially ‘starving’ the airport of services — that tenants leave and […]

The upcoming Sebring U.S. Sport Aviation Expo will offer more than just the latest in sport aircraft and exhibitors. Pilots visiting the annual Florida event early next year will have the opportunity to check off their medical exams on site and leave with a second or third class medical certificate. A senior aviation medical examiner […]

I’d just sunk my hands into a gloriously gluey lump of flour and water when the wall phone rang. Yes, I still have a landline, bake bread, can pickles, put up preserves and make mud pies. I grabbed the receiver with my grossly sticky hand and spent most of a half-hour listening to a young […]

The fight over Santa Monica Airport continues. This week, Atlantic Aviation, an FBO operating at the embattled airport, filed a Part 16 complaint with the FAA against the city of Santa Monica. The complaint documents a long history of the city’s efforts to reduce aircraft services and eventually close the historic airport. In March, the […]

Pilots attending Flying Aviation Expo at the Palm Springs International Airport can obtain FAA WINGS credit at the show’s numerous safety seminars. Every attendee who participates in a minimum of three safety seminars at the show from October 20 to 22 will receive a certificate to complete the requirements for the knowledge portion of a […]

Despite the FAA’s early-August job-vacancy announcement seeking candidates to fill 1,400 trainee controller openings, an effort that netted the agency tens of thousands of applicants, the agency said it won’t overlook another possible pool of ATC experience. The agency took the somewhat unusual step last week of publishing a job announcement specifically aimed at men […]

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says the recurrent training air traffic controllers receive to teach them how to effectively deal with pilots in need of emergency assistance often falls considerably short of any acceptable standard. This is also not the first time the NTSB cited the FAA over inadequate controller training. In a Safety […]