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Bendix/King myWingMan
Navigator App
There's no easier way to fly informed.
Ease-of-use is on just about every pilot's checklist. Which makes the
new myWingMan Navigator app worth checking out. With full-screen
or two- and three-way split-screen views, myWingMan lets you easily
modify the screen to provide the information you want. Swap windows with
just two fingers: drag and drop. It's completely intuitive. There's no
easier way to fly informed. Just touch. And go.
Visit
PreviewMyWingman.com.
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| AVflash! Three Rs Affordable Aircraft
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THREE
RS LAUNCH TODAY AT AOPA SUMMIT
A wide range of aviation
companies will be represented in AVweb's launch of its Three Rs
Affordable Aircraft Initiative to boost the refurbishing and
remanufacturing sector of the industry. "We expect about 15 participants
for [today's] round table discussion [at AOPA Summit] in Palm Springs,"
said AVweb Publisher Tom Bliss. The discussion will be held in
the executive boardroom of the PSP Hilton Hotel next to the Palm Springs
Convention Center starting at 2 p.m. Thursday. Check out
this podcast for a preview. More...
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Introducing the IFD440
FMS/GPS/NAV/COM
As the newest member of Avidyne's integrated flight display family, the
IFD440 has been designed to be an easy-to-install, plug &
play replacement for legacy GNS430-Series navigators. The IFD440
provides powerful navigation, communication, and multi-function display
capabilities, and its easy-to-use Hybrid Touch user interface
allows pilots to perform virtually all functions using dedicated
knobs/buttons or via the touchscreen interface. Now you have a Choice.
And the Choice is Easy.
Click here to receive introductory
pricing information.
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Your Personal S1
Experience
With its revolutionary adaptive digital noise cancelation and
customizable comfort features such as headband contact pressure
adjustment, the S1 Digital is truly a headset that can be
personalized for every user and every environment. We want you to
experience this level of customization for yourself. For a limited time
only, try an S1 Digital without risk for 30 days, share your experience
with us, and get rewarded.
Learn more.
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REFURB
SPECIALTY MARKET STRONG
New aircraft sales continue to be on
the soft side, but some specialty refurbishing and modification
companies can't keep up. "I can't build them fast enough," said Todd
Peterson, owner of Peterson's Performance Plus, creator of the King
Katmai modification of the Cessna 182. On setup day Wednesday at AOPA
Summit in Palm Springs he sold a fully tricked-out $350,000 version of
the aircraft complete with Tundra tires, wing extensions and
nose-mounted canards that turn the venerable cross-country platform into
a serious back-country performer. More...
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Bose® A20®
Aviation Headset
The Best We've Ever Made
Bose was the first to introduce active noise reducing headsets to
aviation more than 20 years ago, forever changing the way pilots fly.
Today, we continue to set the standard with the Bose A20 Aviation
Headset. The headset provides acclaimed noise reduction, with a
comfortable fit and the clear audio you expect from Bose. It also
features Bluetooth®
connectivity, an auxiliary audio input and priority switching.
Learn more.
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Helicopter Speech Recogition
at AOPA Summit
hands-free vectoring to any latitude/longitude
hands-free entry
of Nav/Comm frequencies
The HELO101 uses VoiceFlight's field-proven speech
recogntion technology to address the inherent conflicts between safe
rotocraft flight operations and the distractions of data entry on modern
avionics. See a demonstration at AOPA Summit (booth #1507) or
on our web site,
VoiceFlight.com. 
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NTSB:
GULFSTREAM SAFETY CULTURE A FACTOR IN G650 TEST CRASH
The
fiery crash of a Gulfstream G650 during flight testing in April 2011 was
caused by an aerodynamic stall and subsequent uncommanded roll during a
one-engine-out takeoff flight test, the NTSB determined on Wednesday.
Those events were the result of several human failures, according to the
NTSB: Gulfstream's failure to properly develop and validate takeoff
speeds for the flight tests and recognize and correct a takeoff safety
speed (V2) error during previous G650 flight tests; the G650 flight-test
team's persistent and increasingly aggressive attempts to achieve V2
speeds that were erroneously low; and Gulfstream's inadequate
investigation of previous G650 uncommanded roll events, which would have
shown that the company's estimated stall angle of attack while the
airplane was in ground effect was too high. Two pilots and two engineers
died in the crash, in Roswell, N.M. The G650 was type-certified last
month. More...
SAFETY
STUDY FINDS FAA NEEDS BETTER DATA
The accident rate varies
among the various sectors of general aviation, says a new report from
the Government Accountability Office, but without better data it's hard
to tell what's really going on. For example, experimental amateur-built
airplanes were involved in 21 percent of the fatal accidents reviewed,
but accounted for only 4 percent of the estimated annual flight hours,
while corporate operations flew about 14 percent of estimated annual
flight hours but were involved in only about 1 percent of fatal
accidents. Limitations in the data "preclude a confident assessment" of
what those numbers really mean in regards to general aviation safety,
the report states. The GAO said the FAA should find a way to collect
more detailed data in ways that won't create a burden on the GA
community. More...
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Weather with
Perspective
XM WX Satellite Weather gives you onboard perspective on the
weather. Graphical data like Radar, Lightning, Winds and more enhance
your situational awareness and is compatible with the industry's leading
MFDs, EFBs, glass cockpits, and now the iPad. Additionally, flexible
subscription options ensure you get the dataset that's right for you.
Come see the latest from XM WX Satellite Weather at booth 802 during
AOPA Summit 2012 or
visit us online at
XMWXweather.com/aviation. 
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WIND
DELAYS STRATOS LAUNCH; NEXT CHANCE SUNDAY
Skydiver Felix
Baumgartner was all suited up and ready to fly on Tuesday morning when a
gust of wind knocked down the still-inflating helium balloon that would
carry him to 120,000 feet, and the mission was scrubbed. The next launch
window for the Red Bull Stratos project, which aims to break U.S. Air
Force Col. Joe Kittinger's 52-year-old skydiving altitude record, is
Sunday, Oct. 14. The launch will be carried live on the
Internet, when it happens, and Baumgartner's capsule carries a raft
of cameras to provide live coverage of the three- to four-hour ascent to
the stratosphere and the leap back to Earth. The team hopes that
Baumgartner can become the first human to exceed the speed of sound in a
freefall. More...
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ForeFlight: Intelligent Apps
for Pilots™
Best-in-class design, best-in-class pre-flight and in-flight weather,
Touch Planning™, auto-routing, geo-referenced approach and enroute
charts, aviation documents, and our Fanatical Pilot Support™ make
ForeFlight Mobile for iPad aviation's most popular app. Learn
more about ForeFlight — including our new Advisor features and
support for ADS-B in-flight weather —
on the web at
ForeFlight.com. 
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AVWEB
INSIDER BLOG: DISCOVERY CHANNEL'S PLANE CRASH
The
Discovery Channel aired its much-hyped Plane Crash program on an
ambitious project to crash an old 727 into the Mexican desert. It was
billed as a research project and might very well have been, but it also
made for some interesting television. If you saw it — or even if
you didn't it — check out Paul Bertorelli's review on the AVweb
Insider blog and let us know what you think. Read
more and join the conversation. More...
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Operational Safety Management
Seminar
Denver, Colorado, November 13-14
This real-world, two-day operational safety management seminar focuses
on the four pillars of SMS: Safety Policy, Risk Management, Safety
Assurance and Safety Promotion. 18,000-hour pilot J.R. Russell and guest
speaker David Soucie (former FAA official and author) show you SMS
applications and case studies from the inside out.
"Operationally relevant," says corporate pilot-safety
officer Gary Tucker. Stay at Denver's great Inverness Conference
Center, where rooms and meals are included — networking, too.
Click here for details.
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FBO
OF THE WEEK: GULF AIR CENTER (KJKA, GULF SHORES,
ALABAMA)
Once again, we've had a bumper crop of nominations to
our weekly FBO contest — and this time, many of them came from
members of the Beech Aero Club, which apparently had a terrific annual
get-together at Jack Edwards Airport (KJKA) in Gulf Shores, Alabama,
where Gulf
Air Center served as their host FBO. Among those who nominated
Gulf Air is the club's founder Cloyd Van Hook, who
writes: I am the founder of
the Beech Aero Club, the type club for the Beech Musketeer farmily of
aircraft. We recently had our annual national fly-in at JKA in Gulf
Shores. Gulf Air Center served as our host FBO. They provided us with
hangar space and equipment for our maintenance clinic and provided
excellent service to our members. I look forward to visiting KJKA and
Gulf Air Center again soon. Keep those nominations
coming. For complete contest rules, click
here. AVweb is actively seeking out the best FBOs in
the country and another one, submitted by you, will be spotlighted here
next Monday! More...
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MEET
THE AVWEBFLASH TEAM
AVwebFlash is a twice-weekly summary of the
latest news, articles, products, features, and events featured on
AVweb, the
world's premier independent aviation news resource. The
AVwebFlash team is: Publisher
Tom Bliss Editorial Director,
Aviation Publications
Paul
Bertorelli Editor-in-Chief
Russ Niles Webmaster
Scott Simmons Contributing
Editors
Mary Grady
Glenn Pew Contributors
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Coordinator
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Lund Avionics Editor
Larry
Anglisano
Have a product or service to
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when reason begins to lower, comes a pause in a pilot's occupations
that's known as Presidential campaign season, imposing TFRs that
threaten your wings. Defend yourself with this quiz.
