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| Top News: Pilots Out of Loop on Terrorist
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PILOTS
WANT TO KNOW ABOUT ATTACKS: APA
The Allied Pilots
Association, which represents American Airlines pilots, says most
airborne flight crews weren't notified of the Christmas Day terrorist
attack on a Northwest Airlines A330. The group is calling for changes
after what it describes as "communications failures" left the majority
of airborne flight crews in the dark about the attempted bombing. In a
message to members, the APA's security committee said the Transportation
Security Administration specifically told airlines to notify only the
crews of airborne westbound trans-Atlantic flights of the attack on the
Northwest flight on approach to Detroit. "The TSA should have mandated
that information about this security event be passed on to all airborne
flights," says the message, which was passed to AVweb by a
reader. The note says American complied with the directive but the APA
says the airline should have told all of its in-flight crews of the
incident "so that all of our captains would have been aware of the
threat and could have made the proper adjustments to their in-flight
security procedures." The APA says it noted other communications
failures in the chain of events. More...
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| BizAv Operating as Normal After Bombing Attempt | | back to
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LITTLE
IMPACT ON BIZAV FROM INCREASED SECURITY
It's doubtful that
increased security for airline travel will prompt a run on business
aircraft but the Christmas Day attack on a Northwest Airlines flight may
highlight the benefits of private air travel, according to a story in The Wichita Eagle. The Eagle quotes airline
consultant Richard Mann as predicting that increased inconvenience in
airline travel will push business people to private aircraft. "I think
if we see much more of the sort of response that we saw in this Detroit
incidence, we're going to see a resurgence in business aviation," he
said. But those in the business aviation industry said history doesn't
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CUB
STOLEN AT FREDERICK AIRPORT, HOME OF AIRPORT WATCH
AOPA says
it's following with interest the case of a Super Cub allegedly stolen by
a homeless man from a neighboring hangar at the organization's home
airport at Frederick, Md. "The Frederick airport, headquarters of AOPA,
is a big proponent of Airport Watch," Craig Spence, AOPA vice president
of operations and international affairs, said in a report on AOPA
Online. "AOPA will be following the developments of this investigation
and will work to ensure future security practices prevent this type of
act." AOPA co-sponsors Airport Watch with the Transportation Security
Administration and often points to the widespread participation in the
program when the TSA starts talking about beefing up GA security. In
fact, it appears someone was watching at FDK at 2:30 a.m. Dec. 28 when
it's alleged that Calvin Craig Cox started the Cub, a tow plane owned by
the Mid Atlantic Soaring Association, and taxied it out of their hangar,
which a member told AOPA was always kept locked and showed no signs of
forced entry. More...
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EAA
EXPANDS SEARCH FOR NEXT PRESIDENT
EAA is moving forward with
its effort to find a new president, and international executive search
firm Korn/Ferry has been selected to help find and screen potential
candidates, the organization announced last week. EAA also invited members and
anyone else with an interest in the search to suggest names. Tom
Poberezny announced in March that a new president would be chosen for
the group, which has had only two presidents -- Tom and his father, Paul
-- in its 50-year-plus history. The next president was expected to be
named at EAA AirVenture, but that deal fell apart, and Poberezny told
AVweb in October the failed attempt generated debate among
board members. (Click
here to listen to the full podcast interview with AVweb's
Russ Niles.) Poberezny also said the board is more concerned with
getting the right person than with meeting a deadline. Korn/Ferry's job posting features a long list of
responsibilities, including providing leadership and direction to the
staff, developing annual and long-range plans, and eventually taking
over the planning for AirVenture. More...
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TEST
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If you're not yet
comfortable with the idea of unmanned aircraft operating in the U.S.
national airspace system, well, that day gets closer all the time, and a
recent test flight conducted by GE Aviation brought it even closer.
Earlier this month, GE Aviation and AAI Corporation successfully flew the first "proof
of concept" flight demonstrations of an AAI Shadow unmanned aircraft
system controlled with a GE four-dimensional trajectory (4DT) flight
management system certified for use in commercial manned aircraft. The
flights were conducted at the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal airfield in
Alabama, as part of an FAA research project to demonstrate ways to
safely integrate unmanned aircraft into the Next Generation Air
Transportation System. Craig Hoover, director of advanced marketing and
technology at GE Aviation, told flightglobal.com the FMS technology could have
far-reaching implications. The tests showed the system could navigate
more precisely than pilots in the cockpit, he said, and as the
technology develops, "you could think about having a single pilot in
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Inc. Priester Aviation, which had formed a strategic alliance with Jet
while it was foreign-owned, is aiding the transition now that the
company is owned by General Dynamics, parent company of Gulfstream.
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AVWEB
INSIDER BLOG: CFI VS. PILOT
It's not that AVweb
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well, O.K., maybe it's a little of that — but he can't seem
to get enough of the ongoing discussion raised by our video for
Avation Safety dissecting a Cirrus stall. Paul responds to
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