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March 18, 2013
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Four people were killed, including two on the ground, when a Beech Premier 1 crashed into three houses in South Bend, Indiana Sunday evening. Reports say the pilot of the aircraft reported
mechanical problems before the plane, which was on a flight from Tulsa to South Bend, clipped one house, plowed through a second and came to rest inside a third house. A small boy in one of the houses
apparently escaped with a scratch on his head. Two others in the plane and another person on the ground were taken to hospital. The injured reportedly did not have life-threatening injuries.
The aircraft is registered to a Montana company and operated by a Tulsa business. The neighborhood had to be evacuated because of a gas leak. By late Sunday it appeared that not all the occupants
of the houses had been accounted for.
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A young upwardly mobile first officer for a major airline says the math doesn't support the notion of a pilot shortage anytime soon. Brant Harrison naturally has a vested interest in the pilots
ahead of him on the seniority list moving on and when he heard about studies like one from Boeing suggesting the looming need for
460,000 pilots over the next 20 years he was encouraged. But when Harrison couldn't see any real-world evidence of that shortage he decided to put his college minor in math and business to work and
see where all these jobs were supposed to be coming from. In a podcast interview with AVweb, Harrison said the airline-by-airline analysis he's recently released doesn't envision any
significant change in the job market until at least the end of this decade. "There are so many pilots for a limited amount of jobs," he said.
Harrison looked at everything from retirements to fleet renewals to new pilot starts in the study and concluded that the only real barrier to airlines finding pilots is the low starting pay for
right seaters. Even at the low rates of pay, particularly in the regional airlines, he said the carriers still seem to be able to fill vacancies and that's where the math gets interesting. While the
major airlines have either flatlined or are growing slowly, a lot of regionals are shrinking and that's put a glut of cockpit-ready pilots on the market. He also said the concern over the FAA's
increasing experience requirements for new airline pilots (up to 1,500 hours from 250) is largely unfounded because with some exceptions most regionals require about 1,000 hours already.
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Brant Harrison kept hearing about a pilot shortage, but he couldn't see any evidence of it — so the young first officer decided to crunch the numbers himself. He spoke with
AVweb's Russ Niles about his airline-by-airline analysis and why it means there are plenty of pilots to go around.
Click here to listen. (11.6 MB, 12:45)
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Current AOPA President and CEO Craig Fuller announced in February that he would resign as soon as a suitable replacement could be found and AOPA chairman Bill Trimble has now described the kind of
individual the association is seeking. In an open letter to AOPA members, Trimble said the candidate "must be a passionate outgoing aviator who believes in the critical value GA brings to our country
and citizens." That individual must also be experienced in business and "able to articulate and fight for our cause" in the Capitol and nationwide. Trimble notes that the post-9/11 political landscape
means AOPA must work with more agencies and defend against more regulatory threats. He noted the rising cost of flying for AOPA members and factors that negatively impact AOPA revenues.
Trimble reminds members that AOPA membership dues "remained unchanged" from 1990 until 2010, when they increased by 15 percent, and notes that the consumer price index "increased 76 percent" over
the same period. Trimble says dues make up less than a third of AOPA revenue and other revenue streams, like ad sales in the association's magazines, suffered with the economic downturn. AOPA has
"worked hard to bring down" operational costs, according to Trimble, without sacrificing its advocacy and pilot support activities. He says AOPA is holding $80 million in reserves that are "invested
in a diversified portfolio." Those investments "provide $3.2 million in revenue that we do not need to harness from membership dues or other activities," and also leave the organization ready to
flight battles "such as we saw at 9/11 or with user fees" on a national scale. In closing, Trimble stresses that AOPA will "focus on keeping this generation in the air and providing the opportunity to
allow our children to experience the joy of flight." The full letter is online here.
There's been more movement in EAA's executive suite. Chad Jensen, EAA's Homebuilder Community Manager, was released from the post on Friday. Jensen confirmed his sacking in an email to
AVweb and also on the Van's Air Force forum. He declined comment on Sunday. EAA spokesman Dick
Knapinski said Jensen's dismissal was a "personnel situation" that he could not discuss but he added that EAA is talking with him about another role within the organization. "We're hoping to keep him
involved somehow," Knapinski said.
Jensen also expressed hope that he would be able to rejoin EAA. He assumed his former the post in August of 2011 and was reportedly well liked in the builders' community. He built and flies an RV-7
and is building a Mustang II. Before joining EAA he was sales manager at Image Air in Bloomington, Ill.
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Laser chemist and researcher Jayan Thomas of the University of Central Florida is working to create eyewear that could use gold to prevent pilots from being temporarily blinded or injured by laser
light shot into the cockpit from the ground. Thomas is working in collaboration with other researchers at the Carnegie Mellon Institute in the field of nanotechnology. The team is working to develop a
method of impregnating lenses with tiny nano clusters of gold that block out high-intensity laser light while allowing normal visible light to pass through. Last year, the FAA documented more than
3,400 laser incidents that involved aircraft.
Captain Steve Sevier is a US Airways pilot and safety expert for the Coalition of Air Line Pilots Associations. Sevier recently told the Orlando Sentinel that a doctor told him he had narrowly
avoided serious eye injury after personally suffering a laser incident while on approach to LAX. According to the Sentinel, "Most experts say there is little chance of pilots suffering permanent eye
damage from a laser pointer aimed at them from thousands of feet away on the ground." While more powerful lasers are now publicly available, AVweb is not aware of any similar incidents
resulting in permanent eye damage to a pilot. However, potential consequences resulting from extremely bright light being introduced into the cockpit during critical phases of flight extend beyond eye
health. Responding to concerns over cost, Thomas says his research revolves around nanotechnology and that the amount of gold required for a pair of glasses is far less than a fraction of an
ounce.
Famed aircraft authority Jane's All the World's Aircraft says there's convincing evidence that Gustav Whitehead, not the Wright brothers, was the first to achieve powered controlled flight, but
critics may be unmoved. In the foreword of the 100th edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft, Jane's editor Paul Jackson cites the work of Australian aviation historian John Brown. Brown's evidence
includes a 1901 article describing Whitehead's sustained flight in a controlled powered aircraft flown from a field in Connecticut, ahead of the Wrights' 1903 flight. Unfortunately, although one
picture of a Whitehead flight was reportedly taken, observers who require any direct visual evidence will be disappointed. And Whitehead is not without his detractors.
While other pioneers may have preceded the Wright brothers in briefly achieving controlled flight in a powered airplane, a lack of clear convincing evidence and successive development of an
airframe have likely stunted their notoriety. And that may be the case for Whitehead.
The first written account cited by Brown that is descriptive of Whitehead's pre-Wright flights was published by the Bridgeport Herald in August of 1901. That story states that an unnamed
representative of the Herald witnessed the flight. According to Brown, the Herald published the story on page five of a subsequent issue and did not include a photograph. Jackson writes that existence
of a photograph is supported by written accounts that describe it as blurry and identify it as part of an exhibition that showcased aviation in 1904 and 1906. Whereabouts of the original photograph,
or any copies, are unknown. Jackson adds that Brown's work found multiple "affidavits and statements" that exist "on tape and film or video" of individuals who "bear witness to the many powered
flights made by Whitehead between August 1901 and January 1902." There are no taped, filmed or video records available to provide visual confirmation of Whitehead's flights. Jackson appears satisfied
by the evidence presented by Brown. Find his account, here. See Brown's web page, here. Find accounts dismissive of Whitehead's achievements here and a brief description of other largely forgotten pioneers, here.
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Canada's Transportation Safety Board is considering whether to investigate why the crew of an Air Canada flight ignored two orders from air traffic control to abort a landing at Toronto's Pearson
International Airport last week. Controllers spotted a ground radar return showing an object near the threshold of the runway the flight from Edmonton was about to land on. They twice ordered the
go-around but according to the Toronto
Star the flight landed anyway without incident. The Star quoted a Transport Canada preliminary report as saying the crew told controllers they thought the go-around order was for "someone else."
TSB spokesman Chris Krepski said, "We're assessing that information to determine whether we'll pursue a full investigation." Meanwhile, there will be another investigation on how a driverless van was
able to run amok at the airport to start the whole thing.
Transport Canada said the van crossed the runway and a taxiway before ending up on the grass at the southeast side of the airport. It was found in gear with its engine running. Meanwhile back at a
Sunwing Airlines Boeing 737 parked at a gate, a service technician was looking for the van he said he left parked outside the plane as he worked inside. The van apparently clipped an engine nacelle on
its journey toward the active runway.
Police in the Canadian province of Quebec said late Sunday they had arrested three men and had another cornered in connection with the helicopter escape of two of the men from a prison in
Saint-Jerome, about 25 miles northwest of Montreal. Police are releasing few details but witness accounts gathered by various media sources suggest two of the men commandeered a helicopter at gunpoint
and forced the pilot to hover over the prison yard. "At that point, two of the inmates came out and appeared to attach themselves to cables that were attached to the helicopter," CTV News reporter Derek Conlon reported. "The helicopter then
took off with these two men suspended underneath and it flew away, much to the surprise and astonishment of everyone in the area."
It's not clear how long the men, identified as Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau, 36, and 33-year-old Danny Provencal, hung underneath but Barbeau and the two alleged accomplices were arrested 30 miles from
the prison. Provencal was located nearby and reportedly phoned a Montreal radio station saying he'd been shot in the leg. The station released a recording of Provencal who, speaking in French, said:
""I don't want to hurt anyone. I just don't want to stay in prison, and I'm ready to die." At our deadline negotiations were under way between Provencal and the police.
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Eight high-school students will win a free trip to the Glasair build center in Arlington, Wash., this June, in a new educational competition announced this week by GAMA and Build-A-Plane. The
students will participate in Glasair's "Two Weeks to Taxi" program, building two Sportsman airplanes and learning about science, technology, engineering and math. "This competition will give students
the opportunity to explore general aviation," said Pete Bunce, GAMA president. "We need to expose young people to the exciting and rewarding careers that await them in the aerospace industry and
ensure they have the tools to succeed." High schools who wish to enter the competition should call Katrina Bradshaw of Build-A-Plane at 804-843-3321 immediately, as space in the competition is
limited.
Teachers who participate in the challenge will be issued free "Fly To Learn" software that provides tools for teachers to guide students through the process of building an aircraft on a
computer. Each high school will select one design that will compete in a virtual fly-off. The top two schools will each be funded to send four students plus their teacher and a chaperone to
Glasair, and take field trips to visit the nearby Boeing factory and the Museum of Flight. Also this week, the National Aviation Hall of Fame said it is seeking entries for the 27th annual Scott
Crossfield Aerospace Education Teacher of the Year Award, which includes a $5,000 cash stipend. The deadline for nominations is June 1. For more information and submission forms, go to the NAHF website or call 888-383-1903, ext. 11.
Seventy-year-old Vietnam veteran and CFII Rafael Sierra has created a short summer camp program in Thermal, Calif., that provides select high school students with ground school, one hour of flight
training, and a student pilot certificate -- all free. Sierra's Coachella Valley Youth Aviation Education Program selects students on the basis of their essay submissions and their desire to become
commercial pilots. He runs the program on financial donations and contributions from like-minded friends and local businesses. Sierra told AVweb, Friday, that last year 57 students "graduated"
from the program, and this June 22-29 he will guide another group. Sierra says his model is simple and can be copied successfully across the country.
The ground school portion of the camp covers weather, flight planning, aircraft systems, weight and balance and regulations. "We cover it all," says Sierra. He has arranged for each student to
participate in Young Eagles flights as part of his program. And he donates his own time to provide one hour of flight instruction to each student and says that local FBO Thermal Aviation has come on
board to donate free fuel for the flights. Donations are key to what the program can offer. Sierra credits his friend Dr. Mort Gubin for donating 60 free medicals and thanks friends and local
businesses for providing nearly $6000 in monetary donations to help fund the project. "All of them told me to come back and ask again next year" because they believe in the program, Sierra said. All
funds go to supplies that include instruction materials, thumb drives, E6Bs and learning aids for the students, according to Sierra.
Sierra says his supporters are mainly "guys like me, 65 years and older who understand the pilot population is in decline." He hopes to continue to grow the program and to see similar programs
spread to other airports across the country, and maintains an active Facebook page that's open to anyone. According to Sierra,
aviation has been a wonderful part of his life. "We're very much aware that we're not going to take anything with us, and we've got to give it back."
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Letter of the Week: Question from a Midair Veteran
I have read your interesting article on mid-air collisions, but I cannot agree totally with it. I am the lucky survivor of an actual
mid-air, where my Twin Comanche at 150 kts cut off the fin of a Cessna C172RG at 125 kts, losing most of my left wing tip in the crash. Luckily, nobody was hurt, but it still puzzles me how such an
event may have occurred.
In perfectly clear weather, I was on my toes knowing that traffic at the same altitude (2,000 feet) was heavy and having been warned by ATC of traffic on the opposite heading. Unfortumately, I had
just passed another aircraft on opposite heading and thought that was it. Despite what I believed to be an accurate scan, we only saw each other at a distance of about 1,000 feet. I dove sharply to
the right, but the other guy also dove without turning, so I pulled up hoping to avoid him. Well, I didn't make it.
My question is: In case you really are close, is it better to dive, to keep him in sight, or to pull up?
Giulio Valdonio
Sequester Bites
Regarding the "Question of the Week" on sequester: I instruct at KANE in Minnesota. Our contract tower is on the list to
close. We are a reliever airport for KMSP and have six instrument approaches from three different directions, a significant amount of flight instruction, corporate jet traffic, and cargo haulers as
well as about 400 GA aircraft based on the field.
With the mix of aircraft and pilot experience and skill, operating with no tower is a huge safety concern. Unfortunately, the FAA isn't considering safety as one of the criteria for keeping the
contract towers open. I find this rather ironic considering the millions of dollars the FAA spends on safety awareness and instruction.
Ours is not a unique situation. Many of the towers scheduled to close are in busy air space, creating a very hazardous situation. There must be a better way than this to cut the budget.
Cheryl Daml
Of course I'm still going to fly. I'm a young pilot living off a modest budget, with a loving wife who also lives off a modest budget. Quite frankly, I'm tired of listening to a lot of older
pilots wishing things would go back to the way they were in the '70s. We do ourselves no favors bitching about how bad things are to everyone, then wondering why no one's starting. Maybe if a few of
the "doom and gloom" pilots hung it up, a few more people would be interested in starting.
Brandon Freeman
I'm based at FDK, where the new contract tower is on the chopping block. All of my flying is IFR because of the adjacent SFRA and Camp David. I expect significant delays in clearances and
releases, so it will affect my flying, most of which is for Pilots N Paws.
Elliott DeGraff
I see AOPA is asking the government to keep the low-volume towers open. They are behaving like everyone else who is getting cut: "Cut the other guys, not me." It is time for us all to bite the
bullet and cut back. We operated nicely without towers, and we can do it again. Not that big a deal.
Cliff Johnson
Certified for ADS-B
I recently purchased a new LSA aircraft and installed a Garmin 796, a GTX-330ES, and a GDL-39 thinking that I'd be receiving all ADS-B information on my 796. The aircraft dealer thought the same.
I didn't want to wait until 2020 to be compliant with the "out" mandate and wanted to have the weather and traffic picture now.
If you read the manuals on the above equipment, you'd think that you'd be all set with the latest, but the manuals are deceiving.
What you must know is that in order to talk to the ADS-B ground stations you must have a certified GPS unit. As of this time, the GPS 796 is not [certified]. So The cheapest fix now is to install
a standalone certified GPS unit to talk to the GTX-330ES to be able to send and receive the information that I thought I was getting.
What would be great, and makes perfect sense, is that a certified GPS should not have to be used in an experimental or an LSA, as long as the GPS unit is WAAS-capable.
The 796 fits the WAAS requirement.
Isn't it better that we all, certified and non-certified aircraft alike, have the same picture of weather and traffic?
Richard Provenzano
Alphabet Performance
I've been an AOPA member since 1978 and an EAA member since 1990. I think AOPA does a decent job with national issues, but both organizations stabbed their memberships in the back with the
purposeful elimination of legacy aircraft such as the C-150/152 or Skipper from the LSA category.
So they wanted to "nurture" a new industry? Maybe they should change their names to GAMA and stop pretending to represent member pilots. The proposal to eliminate the third class medical shows
how weak they perceive themselves to be. No night flights? Horsepower restrictions? Did the FAA draw up this proposal? I am on the verge of dropping both memberships.
Dennis English
With $6.00 gas, you will continue to see pilot training decline. I have several friends that drive expensive cars [and] can afford a plane; however, [they] refuse to become involved in flying due
to the price of fuel and hangar rent. They do not share their car and have no interest in sharing a plane. AOPA cannot solve this problem.
John Fonville
Drones Are Irresistible
Welcome to the hysteria around UAVs, also known as drones. Please don't add to the alarmist uneducated public reaction.
I see drones frequently because I fly one. It's a three-pound hexacopter capable of carrying a one-pound payload consisting of a camera and camera gimbal.
Since I hold a commercial pilot's certificate, I can claim superior knowledge of FAA rules over most drone hobbyists. Almost all hobbyists fly according to AC 91-57. Few want to risk their craft
that cost well north of $500 with out-of-sight GPS-guided flight, and believe me, at 400 feet, a typical hobby drone is just a speck in the air.
That said, the electronics in a $500 drone are just short of amazing. Mine has GPS, altimeter, inertial navigation, and an autopilot for stabilization. The autopilot even knows to return to
launch if it loses the RC link.
I fully expect that when the FAA releases the NPRM for allowing drones into the NAS, licensing will be the minimum requirement. Drones are coming. The commercial pressure to permit them is just
too great to resist.
Stephen Mann
The drone incursion near JFK is a "shot across the bow" of the traditional aviation community. Drone usage should be licensed and only to qualified persons who are aware of the risks and
responsibilities. These are not toys.
Bruno Schreck
An NAS form came to our ATC regarding several instances where drones had lost data links and made altitude changes during flight. These changes happened between flight levels 350 to 180 and were
several thousand feet. Also, one drone controller deviated his drone around weather without advising the center. In another instance, a light aircraft had to deviate while in the traffic pattern.
Don't know about you, but this scares me.
Name Withheld
"Short Final" Sensitivities
Regarding the letter about "Short Final": I have been flying since 1972. I learned to fly in a USAF flying club. My ex-husband
was AF, not me. I found that "Short Final" to be funny, not derogatory to women. We need to lighten up and not take ourselves so seriously. I flew single-pilot night freight in the late 1970s and
most of the 1980s, when I was the only woman in the area I was flying in. When I got picked on (and I did, big time!) I turned it back on the man with humor. I got accepted rather quickly.
Lighten up all, please.
Carol Bittner Collins
As in Stan's case, for purposes of full disclosure, I am not and have not been in either the Marines or the Navy. Like Stan, I taught in college/university aviation programs and was the director
of one during the 9//11 time period. I am also very sensitive to the issue of women in aviation, especially since my daughter pursued a career in aviation both as a pilot and in ground
functions.
I think that Stan missed the point of the joke in the Feb. 25 "Short Final." The reference was to men's vs. boys' departments, not men vs. women. I agree that we have to do all we can to make
sure that women do not have to put up with discriminatory things in pursuit of aviation careers, but in this case we might well do more harm than good by trying to make a truly "innocent" joke into
something that it is not.
I compliment Stan for his sensitivity and willingness to speak out — but in this case it wasn't needed.
Alan Davis
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My first flying job was as a flight instructor at Hanger One at Millard Airport (MLE) in Nebraska. One evening in 1989, while working with an instrument student in a Cessna 150,
I overheard another instructor, Karl Lindholm, familiarizing his student with tower communications at Epply Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska. With calm winds and no other traffic in the area, the tower was
allowing them to perform touch-and-goes on different runways. I then overheard the following:
Tower:
"Cessna 12345, you are cleared for the option on all runways."
Karl:
"Roger. So are we cleared to run amok?"
Tower:
"Affirmative. 12345 is cleared to run amok. Advise when you are ready to return to Millard."
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