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Aircraft Spruce at the
2013
Alaska State Aviation Trade Show
Aircraft Spruce will be at the 2013 Alaska State Aviation Trade Show
and Conference on May 4 from 9:00am to
5:00pm and May 5 from 10:00am to 5:00pm.
Join Aircraft Spruce in booth #225 for incredible show
specials and a helpful staff to answer your questions. No-cost shipping
is available on show orders that qualify to be shipped in a flat-rate
USPS box (does not apply to oversize or hazardous items). We look
forward to seeing you there! Call
1 (877) 4‑SPRUCE or
visit AircraftSpruce.com. 
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| Staring into the Changing Face of the Sequester | | back to
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FAA
FURLOUGHS, TOWERS, AND WEATHER OBSERVERS
President Barack
Obama has signed a bill that will end furloughs of air traffic
controllers, and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Wednesday said the
administration will seek to prevent tower closures, but other areas may
see cuts. The president's signature allows the FAA to shift $253 million
from other accounts to fund controllers and 149 federal contract towers.
The furloughs have already stopped, but the tower closures are still a
possibility, beginning June 15, until that issue is formally resolved.
Meanwhile, the FAA still needs to make cuts as a result of the
sequester, and the agency has plans to eliminate airport weather
observers. More...
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Bendix/King myWingMan
Navigator App
There's no easier way to fly informed.
Ease-of-use is on every pilot's checklist — myWingMan
delivers. With sophisticated yet intuitive flight planning, simply enter
your start point and end point and go. It'll calculate your best route
— VFR and IFR — based on your weather and terrain conditions.
Two- and three-way split-screen options give you flexible, custom
views.
Just touch. And go.
Visit
PreviewMyWingman.com.
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ALL
AMERICANS ABOARD CRASHED 747
Six Michigan residents and one
from Louisville, KY have been identified as those aboard a National Air
Cargo Boeing 747-400 that crashed on takeoff from Bagram Air Base in
Afghanistan on Monday. According to USA Today, pilot Brad Hasler, of
Trenton and Jeremy Lipka of Brooklyn; First Officers Jamie Brokaw of
Monroe and Rinku Summan of Canton; loadmaster Michael Sheets of
Ypsilanti, and maintenance crew Gary Stockdale of Romulus, along with
Timothy Garrett of Louisville all died in a
horrific crash that was captured on video and is a sombre topic on
blogs and forums all over the world. More...
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The Easy-to-Install IFD440
& IFD540 with Hybrid Touch
The IFD440 & IFD540 are plug-and-play replacements for
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knobs/buttons or via the touchscreen interface.
Make the Easy Choice.
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ANGEL
FLIGHT WEST DRIVES EXPANSION
The nonprofit, volunteer-driven,
non-emergency air transport organization Angel Flight West is inviting
all other volunteer pilot organizations to use its new software and
database system at no cost. The system facilitates management of
personnel and flight requests and includes debrief capabilities "through
a user-friendly, robust filtering system," according to the group. By
offering the system, free of charge, the organization hopes both to
reduce the workload of individual volunteers who process and coordinate
missions for similar groups, and to facilitate the expansion of
public-benefit flying organizations. Angel Flight West saw a surge in
activity in 2012 that left them seeking additional volunteer pilots.
More...
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Get Masimo's iSpO2 at AeroMedix.com
Masimo is an American manufacturer of hospital-grade oximeters famous
for holding a signal in high vibration/motion environments. With
iSpO2, they have
developed software that will run on an iPod/iPad/iPhone and married it
with their pulse oximeter design. You can watch your oxygen saturation
as you climb to altitude and observe your heart rate. Very helpful for
setting the proper oxygen flow.
Get yours today at
AeroMedix.com!
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QUESTION
OF THE WEEK: LET'S GO FLYING
Frankly, we're tired of all the
misery that has been aviation news for the past few days, so we'd like
to be uplifted. How are you going to advance yourself as a pilot or
aviation in general this flying season?
Plus: Last week,
we asked AVweb readers how the sequester has affected their
flying -- if at all. Click through to see the breakdown of their
answers. More...
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Track More Targets with
Garmin GTS™ 825 & 855
The new Garmin GTS 825 and GTS 855 traffic systems
keep an eye on even more targets, so you can stay even safer in the
skies. They combine active and passive (like ADS-B) surveillance
technologies to track up to 75 intruder threats to 40 or 80 nm,
respectively, and provide both visual and audible alerts.
Learn more.
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Over 21,000 Happy
GAMIjectors® Customers Can't Be
Wrong!
GAMIjectors® have given
these aircraft owners reduced cylinder head temperatures, reduced fuel
consumption, and smoother engine operation. GAMIjectors® alter the fuel/air ratio in each
cylinder so that each cylinder operates with a much more uniform
fuel/air ratio than occurs with any other factory set of injectors. To
speak to a GAMI engineer, call (888) FLY‑GAMI,
or
go online for complete engineering
details. 
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RUSSIAN
AIRLINER EVADES MISSILES
Russia has ordered its airlines to
avoid Syrian airspace after a charter airliner with 159 passengers and
eight crew aboard escaped a possible missile attack Monday. Russia Today quoted Interfax as saying the the
Nordwind Airlines A320, on a flight from an Egyptian resort to Kazan in
Tatarstan, was over the mountains of Syria when the crew spotted the
launch of two ground-to-air missiles and took evasive action. The
missiles reportedly exploded "very close" to the airliner at about
30,000 feet, but it was not damaged. The crew then asked ATC for a
higher altitude and continued the trip at 33,000. More...
PRODUCTION
SOVEREIGN FLIES
Cessna has flown the production version of
its updated Sovereign mid-sized business jet and, as expected,
everything went well. The two and a half hour flight tested all the
systems, including the new G5000 avionics suite that includes
autothrottles. "The aircraft handling characteristics and performance
were exceptional, just as we had anticipated after flying more than
1,300 hours in three test flight articles. The Garmin G5000 avionics
system provides a sense of control and situational awareness that any
pilot will appreciate," said Matt Freund, Cessna production flight test
pilot. More...
INDIANA
SLASHES AVIATION TAXES
While other governments, including the
current administration, are increasingly viewing aviation as a cash cow,
the State of Indiana has slashed aviation-related taxes that will save
some aircraft operators thousands of dollars a year. The legislature in
Indianapolis has cut fuel taxes from 60 cents a gallon (based on current
prices) to a 10-cent-a-gallon excise tax. Taxes on parts used in repairs
and maintenance have also been eliminated. AOPA says the outcome came
after a lobbying effort it supported involving the local aviation
community. The group showed Indiana lawmakers how Maine had
significantly improved its aviation industry by amending its aviation
tax structure a few years ago. More...
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