Posts Tagged ‘National’
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Inadequate pilot training has been blamed for last year’s Merpati Nusantara Airline crash in West Papua, says the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT). KNKT chairman Tatang Kurniadi said that the co-pilot was trained by an aircraft …
Tags: Airline, airline crash, Committee, jakarta post, knkt, merpati nusantara airline, National, national transportation safety, Nusantara, safety
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Inadequate pilot training and a lack of communication were pointed out as the causes of Merpati Nusantara Airline’s crash in Kaimana waters, West Papua, last year, the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) said in Jakarta on Monday.
Tags: Airline, communication, jakarta post, Kaimana, National, national transportation safety, Nusantara, pilot training, west papua
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
The United States will host the NATO and G8 summits in two weeks, and two recently issued FAA flight advisories inform pilots that TFRs will be in place in those designated ‘National Defense Airspace’ areas. The G-8 Summit will be held at Camp David, Thurmont, Maryland, May 18-19, and the 25th NATO Summit will occur in Chicago May 19-21.
Tags: airspace, FAA, faa flight, g8 summits, National, nato summit, nato summits, Summits, tfrs, thurmont maryland
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
This May 2010 accident report is provided by the National Transportation Safety Board. Published as an educational tool, it is intended to help pilots learn from the misfortunes of others. Aircraft: Piper Comanche. Injuries: None. Location: Carrollton, Ga. Aircraft damage: Substantial.
What reportedly happened: The pilot had just purchased a share in the low-wing airplane and was receiving a checkout from a CFI for insurance purposes. The pilot was attempting to land the Piper with a simulated engine failure, but he misjudged
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===> Posted on May 3rd, 2012 by Meg Godlewski.
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Tags: accident, ga aircraft, National, national transportation safety, national transportation safety board, Piper, piper comanche, safety, tool, transportation safety board
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
This May 2010 accident report is provided by the National Transportation Safety Board. Published as an educational tool, it is intended to help pilots learn from the misfortunes of others. Aircraft: Piper Comanche. Injuries: None. Location: Carrollton, Ga. Aircraft damage: Substantial.
What reportedly happened: The pilot had just purchased a share in the low-wing airplane and was receiving a checkout from a CFI for insurance purposes. The pilot was attempting to land the Piper with a simulated engine failure, but he misjudged
href="http://www.generalaviationnews.com/2012/05/03/insurance-checkout-ends-in-mishap/">Continue Reading »
===> Posted on May 3rd, 2012 by Meg Godlewski.
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Tags: accident, ga aircraft, National, national transportation safety, national transportation safety board, Piper, piper comanche, safety, tool, transportation safety board
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
The truth is out there… somewhere.
Last week, a proposed amendment to the House’s National Defense Authorization Act caused a bit of a firestorm. The proposed amendment from
href="http://turner.house.gov/">Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) would “bar the Department of Defense from loaning or gifting any U.S. military aircraft or parts to any entity except those that would put the aircraft on static display, such as in a museum,” says an
href="http://eaa.org/news/2012/2012-04-18_title10.asp">EAA story posted on April 18.
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===> Posted on April 25th, 2012 by Ben Sclair.
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Tags: Act, amendment, bit, defense authorization act, dustup, michael turner, National, national defense authorization, national defense authorization act
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Swift action by members of EAA and Warbirds of America, plus other general aviation pilots and aviation enthusiasts, made a difference in reversing a threat to warbird aircraft posed by a possible amendment to the House National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 4310).
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===> Posted on April 24th, 2012 by Janice Wood.
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Tags: Act, amendment, aviation enthusiasts, defense authorization act, difference, National, national defense authorization, national defense authorization act, threat, warbirds of america
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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Air Racers 3D, the first IMAX movie devoted to the Reno Air Races, is rolling out across the country at select IMAX theaters, including the Naval Aviation Museum (Pensacola, Florida), Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center (Hutchinson, Kansas), National Infantry Museum (Columbus, Georgia) and U.S. Space & Rocket Centre (Huntsville, Alabama).
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Lockheed IMAX Theatre in Washington, DC, and the U.S. Air Force Museum (Dayton, Ohio) will launch Air Racers 3D on May 25, followed by the Houston Museum of Natural Science (Houston, Texas), COSI The center of Science & Industry (Columbus, Ohio), New Mexico Museum of Space History (Alamogordo, New Mexico) and Tycho Brahe Planetarium in Copenhagen (Denmark).
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===> Posted on April 23rd, 2012 by Janice Wood.
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Tags: Aviation, Houston, houston museum of natural science, kansas cosmosphere and space center, movie, National, naval aviation museum, reno air races, Science, tycho brahe planetarium
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Michael Turner have asked the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to account for how much taxpayer money the federal government spent to test LightSquared’s wireless network for interference with GPS and government telecommunications devices.
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===> Posted on April 10th, 2012 by Janice Wood.
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Tags: chuck grassley, Continue, government telecommunications, michael turner, National, national telecommunications and information administration, raquo, taxpayer, taxpayer money, Telecommunications
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Sunday, March 25th, 2012
Flying in from around the U.S., about two dozen B-25 Mitchell bombers will converge on Urbana, Ohio’s municipal airport, Grimes Field, beginning Saturday, April 14. The largest gathering of B-25s since World War II, the Grimes Gathering of B-25s will lead into the 70th Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Reunion at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force (NMUSAF), near Dayton.
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===> Posted on March 25th, 2012 by Janice Wood.
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Tags: airport, dozen, field target, Flying, grimes field, National, Raiders, tokyo raiders, u s air force, world war ii
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