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April 26, 2013
By The AVweb Editorial Staff
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Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are scheduled for integration into the national airspace system (NAS) in 2015, spurring job growth and a forecast economic impact of $13.6 billion by 2019. But
while the growing industry will be adding to the overall workforce, the segment might also be changing the employment landscape for people seeking professional pilot positions. The new segment will
need pilots, but what kind of pilots, and where will they come from? Let's take a look.
Click here to read the full article.
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The Senate Thursday approved legislation that could put an end to furloughs of air traffic controllers and other FAA personnel that have correlated with a spike in commercial flight delays, but it
may do even more. The legislation would allow the FAA to transfer up to $253 million from other programs to fully staff controller positions though September. The FAA had estimated that its staffing
furloughs would save an estimated $200 million and closure of 149 federal contract air traffic control towers would save $50 million. It is not yet clear how the transfer will be applied or what other
areas would suffer. The bill was expected to move to the House on Friday, for a vote. As presently applied, flight delays have not been the only problems exacerbated by the cuts.
According to the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union (PASS), which represents FAA employees, the furloughs imposed on FAA employees through sequestration also led to delays in equipment
maintenance. According to PASS, furloughs were already leading to missed or deferred preventive maintenance that resulted in reduced system redundancy and insufficient funding for parts and equipment.
Passage of the bill would leave the balance of the $85 billion sequestration cuts in place, but would allow the FAA more flexibility in how those cuts are applied at the agency. The FAA had planned to
close 149 federal contract air traffic control towers beginning June 15 to save roughly $50 million. It would appear that a portion of the $253 million transfer allowed under the bill could be applied
to keeping those towers open. In either case, it is not clear what other areas of operation would suffer as a result of the transfer of funds.
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Garmin's Carl Wolf seems to agree that the next logical development in avionics is an AHRS/Com/Nav/ADS-B that won't make you sell the beach house. AVweb's Paul Bertorelli spoke with
him at Aero 2013 in Friedrichshafen.
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Flight Design is pulling back on the timeline for its four-place certified model as the world gets together on light aircraft certification. AVweb's Paul Bertorelli spoke with Tom
Peghiny at Aero 2013.
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An array of experts in a variety of aircraft technologies, from batteries to aerodynamics to photovoltaics, are gathering in Santa Rosa, Calif., for this week's 7th annual CAFE electric-aircraft
symposium. Representatives from NASA, IBM, Pipistrel, MIT, UCLA, and more, are convening to share the results of their latest research and contribute to creating the next generation of flight.
"There's a great deal of promise that we can have emissions-free airplanes," event organizer Dr. Brien Seeley told AVweb on Thursday. General-aviation aircraft that are quiet, vibration-free,
and easy to operate have "the potential to really proliferate," he said. The meeting will be held Friday and Saturday.
The event has been growing every year since it started in 2007. "I think that's because of the rapid progress being made in energy storage and battery technology," said Seeley. The complete program for the event is posted online (PDF). Seeley spoke with AVweb's Mary Grady
in Santa Rosa, with a preview of some of the topics that will be covered during the meeting. Click here to listen to the podcast, and watch for more
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The Seventh annual symposium is now under way in Santa Rosa, California, and Dr. Brien Seeley talks with AVweb's Mary Grady about who's coming, what they'll be talking about, and what
they hope to achieve.
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Radio silence: that's what most pilots say got their attention and made them realize they had encountered an in-flight electrical failure. Too bad, because by the time the radios no longer worked,
odds are that your electrical system had sucked all the life out of your primary back-up device, your main battery. Many modern personal airplanes come with back-up electrical systems from the
factory. But if you fly an airplane equipped as if was the standard just a few years ago, you had better hope you were in day VFR conditions if you found yourself in this pickle. Otherwise, it was
going to be a mighty tough night and/or IFR flight without navigation equipment or communication radios (or lights, or power for flaps or landing gear).
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Do all of us harbor the fantasy of finding that perfect vintage aircraft stored in a barn somewhere, only awaiting the tender hands of restoration? Well, it's no fantasy. Those airplanes are out
there. In 2004, Ron Tanner found this 1946 Champ in a Massachusetts barn, where it sat unmoved since 1952. He bought it from Mike Ricard. Incredibly, it has the original engine, fabric, glass and
logbooks.
"The total time on the original logs shows 1543 hours," Tanner told us. "I hauled her down here to Okeechobee, Florida, where I now live at River Oak Acres airpark (00FL) when I moved in 2005. It
took three years of rebuilding, including three FAA field approvals and 10 STCs. I changed the original 65-hp to an 0-200A 100 hp, which now has a light weight starter and 30-amp alternator."
Other upgrades include hydraulic toe disk brakes, an electrical system, a comm radio and transponder, and digital tach, volt/amp, and oil pressure/temp gauges. The interior upholstery and
headliner are from Airtex, and the covering is modern Pol Fiber. "I made a temporary spray booth in my hangar and did the painting also. If you see an Aeronca t-shirt at Sun 'n Fun or Oshkosh, you
will find the paint scheme I used. When the FAA inspector came to do the field approvals, he informed me I would need a new airworthiness certificate. I didn't realize that before 1955, it was
renewed at each annual inspection. That cost me $700 for a DER to issue one," Tanner says.
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