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June 5, 2005
NewsWire Complete Issue
By The AVweb Editorial Staff
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15th Annual Open House Encourages Encore
"We've seen more people today in the first two hours than we did all of last year," Lancair salesman Doug Walker exulted Saturday at AOPA's Fly-in and Open House at the Frederick (Md.) Airport. "We've had constant long lines of people to check
out our 'mockpit'" -- the Lancair mock-up that welcomes the curious to climb right in, while the true ship can rest unmolested on the ramp. Last year it rained buckets all day long, but this year the
weather cooperated. The cloud cover lifted enough to let about 250 pilots fly in, but lingered enough to keep the ramp comfortable and shady through the humid afternoon. AOPA President Phil Boyer was
thrilled with the turnout, estimated at over 5,000. "If we'd had another [rainy] year like the last three, this might have been our last open house," he told AVweb. "It's a lot of work for us.
But after today -- we will do it again." Tour the grounds in AVweb's online gallery. The open house tradition began 15
years ago, when Boyer took over the top job at the organization. "I'd be here working on Saturdays, and pilots would fly in and walk over to look at the building and take pictures, and there was
nobody here, and the doors were locked ... so I'd run downstairs and let them in. That's when I decided to hold an Open House once a year on a Saturday, so our members could fly in and visit."
Saturday's event sprawled through AOPA's headquarters -- with offices open to visitors, meeting rooms packed full for seminars, flight simulators to play with in the hallways and prize drawings to
enter. A popular stop was an upstairs office where visitors could have their photo taken and printed out on the cover of an AOPA magazine. On the ramp, dozens of aircraft -- from a Piper Cub to Adam's
newly certified A500 twin to AOPA's Citation jet -- were open to explore. Traveling exhibits from Cirrus, SATS (Small Aircraft Transportation Systems) and Lancair made the most of the crowds.
While many of those checking out the static displays, attending seminars or browsing 100 exhibits under the big white tent were AOPA members and pilots, a lot were prospects the members had been
encouraged to bring along. Three sessions on "How To Start Learning To Fly" drew overflow crowds. By midday, AOPA staffers had run out of their supply of learn-to-fly kits -- with a video and DVDs and
a Be A Pilot certificate for a $49 intro flight -- and were taking names to send them in the mail. "The response has been phenomenal,"
said AOPA Communications Director Sue Walitsky. Boyer said the kickoff of a rejuvenated Project Pilot was the day's most important event. "We're all getting grayer," he said. "We need to invest in
this so we can continue to grow. If we have more AOPA members, we have more lobbying power, and if GA has more participants, it lowers costs for all of us. So everyone benefits." Walitsky said AOPA
has a lot of resources for student pilots -- a Web site loaded with information, Flight Training magazine, seminars and mentors. "Students who are AOPA members are three times more likely to finish
their training," she said. After the seminar, prospects could head for the ramp, where flight instructors were ready to show them a Cessna or Diamond trainer, sit them in a cockpit and explain how it
all works. Boyer said he'd like to see Project Pilot grow into a nationwide, annual Learn-to-Fly Day, with local flight schools everywhere holding an open house to welcome pilot prospects. "We're
reaching out to our members to help identify future pilots," Boyer said. "People who have the interest, the time, and can afford it. And to mentor them. And we will pledge a lot of support to that
effort."
At Boyer's packed hour-long Q&A session, there was just one topic on everyone's mind -- the Washington,
D.C., ADIZ. "It's a regional issue, but with national implications," Boyer said. "It's a symbol of taking away our freedom to fly." He said AOPA is lobbying to reduce the size of the ADIZ and to
simplify procedures for GA aircraft operating within it. But overall, Boyer said, the number-one issue that worries AOPA members is user fees. Second to that is airport closures. More than 200 pilots
on Saturday made use of AOPA's one-stop security process to help gain access to the DC-3 airports -- the three
D.C.-area GA airfields that were shut down after 9/11. "Instead of spending a day or two running around to all the required agencies, they can get most of the process done all at once," Boyer said.
The program may travel to other airports in the Northeast where a lot of pilots want that access, he said. After airing their views and taking care of business, pilots could shop, relax at the food
court, check out the airplanes, talk about flying and enjoy a summer day at the airport.
Plenty Of Blame To Go Around
The FAA last Thursday issued a scathing report on New York's Terminal Radar Approach Control on Long Island,
saying the union has too much control over scheduling and costs are out of control. The facility is not understaffed or unsafe, the report said. "We have a scam; we don't have a safety issue," FAA
spokesman Greg Martin told reporters. At over $4 million, overtime costs at the New York facility are more than double those at any other large TRACON. According to the FAA's news release, "Generous
amounts of overtime allowed 21 controllers to earn more than $200,000 last year, not including benefits; this year, that number is projected to increase to 51." The report said there is "a culture of
insubordination and intimidation" at the facility, and blamed both FAA management and the local union for the situation, which has developed over the last 15 years. The report was written by a
25-member team, based on its 60-day onsite review of the facility.
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) quickly responded to the FAA's report, as President John Carr held a conference call with reporters on Thursday afternoon. "I don't believe the
scapegoating that is contained in that report will add a single controller to the New York TRACON," Carr said. "I don't believe it's going to help the working environment. ...There are too many
airplanes and there are too few people and that's going to lead to a safety problem." The union found friends in Washington, where New York Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton both
expressed support for the controllers. "To say that little overtime and no new employees are needed at one of the busiest towers in the nation defies credibility," Schumer said in a statement. "We
don't need more reports, we need amicable solutions," Clinton said. See AVweb's NewsWire for NATCA's full response. "The FAA had a golden opportunity to address what we view are serious
management and staffing problems that are affecting the New York TRACON," Carr said. "Sadly, they have failed to accomplish that ... The problems in New York are the result of a fairly simple equation
-- there are more flights, there are fewer air traffic controllers and there is an increasingly reduced margin of safety. The New York TRACON handles three of the busiest airports in the world ...
this year they've handled a record number of operations." He said there is a lot of overtime at the facility because the FAA has not filled empty staff positions. "The FAA has created this chaos by
their own hand," Carr said.
Click here for NATCA's full response.
Meanwhile, the Professional Airways Systems Specialists (PASS) union said Thursday it is seeking an order from a federal
arbitrator that would rescind a service contract awarded in February to Lockheed Martin to operate the FAA's Flight Service Stations. At a hearing last week, the union argued that the FAA violated a
contractual promise that it would involve the union in the process to transfer work performed by federal employees to outside contractors. "This is a blatant violation of our agreement with the
agency," said PASS National President Tom Brantley. "We believe that the safety of the National Airspace System (NAS) should not be contracted out to the lowest bidder." And in its third annual report on the FAA's efforts to modernize the National Airspace System, the Department of Transportation's
Office of Inspector General found that cost growth, schedule delays and performance shortfalls with the FAA's major acquisitions continue to stall progress. "Consequently, it is not clear how much
these programs will cost, how long it will take to complete them, or what capabilities they will finally deliver," the report says. The FAA needs to develop a comprehensive strategy if it hopes to
keep pace with growing demand for air traffic services, the report concludes.
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Pilots who have been waiting -- some since 2003 -- for upgrades that would make their Garmin units WAAS-capable will have to wait longer still. "Regrettably, Garmin has delayed the WAAS upgrade for our GNS 430/530, GPS 400/500, and GNC
420 units until the third quarter of 2006," Garmin spokesman Ted Gartner told AVweb on Friday. "The complexity of this important project has increased, as well as the R&D to design, build, and
certify our WAAS-enabled hardware -- including a new GPS antenna and receiver -- in addition to a major software rewrite." Garmin says it will hold to its promise to deliver the upgrade to existing
owners for $1,500. Current owners can still lock in that price if they order the upgrade by Nov. 15, and they pay nothing until the upgrade is completed, Gartner said. Effective immediately, new
purchases of GNS 430/530, GPS 400/500 and GNC 420s will be upgradeable to WAAS, but at a yet-to-be-determined price. Garmin's GNS 480 is WAAS-ready now. "I would hope that you convey our regrets for
this delay," Gartner told AVweb. "We intend to keep our dealers and customers apprised of the situation as developments warrant." WAAS is a system of satellites and ground stations that provides GPS signal corrections, giving pilots vertical guidance and up to five times better position accuracy than GPS
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"This is disappointing news to AOPA members who own Garmin equipment and are looking forward to the increased safety that WAAS will bring at an affordable price," said AOPA President Phil Boyer in a
statement on Friday. "We are committed to promoting WAAS because it will add vertical guidance capabilities to 3,000 GPS approaches -- a major safety enhancement at lower cost than ground-based
navaids." Meanwhile, the FAA Eastern Region has posted an online video tutorial for users of Garmin's GNS 430 and 530 units.
"Our effort is to assist you to avoid the human-factor errors that may hinder your operation of the GNS-530/430," the FAA said. "To accomplish improving your operational understanding of the
GNS-530/430, we employed scenario-based demonstrations and explanations of the various navigation procedures performed with the GNS-530/430." The tutorial consists of six units, each about one hour
long.
Jurors in a federal court said last Thursday the Little Rock (Ark.) National Airport must pay over $2 million to the widow of an airline captain who died in the 1999 crash of an American Airlines MD-82, The Associated Press reported. The lawsuit alleged that the airport was negligent because the approach-light
system (at the opposite end of the runway) that the jet ran into was too close to the runway and too rigid, and the overrun was less than half of the 1,000 feet it should have been. The airport's
defense noted that the NTSB found the probable cause of the accident to be errors by the flight crew, including a decision to continue the approach when the "maximum crosswind component was exceeded"
and "when severe thunderstorms ... had moved into the airport area," and that the crew failed to ensure that the spoilers had extended after touchdown. Eleven people, including the captain, died in
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With the debate over user fees for GA gathering steam here in the U.S., the issue is playing out in a
more extreme form down under, where Australian GA pilots face a fourfold increase in the fees they pay for government services. "This is getting very, very scary and more to the point, it's proving
that CASA [Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority] is not capable of regulating aviation any more," said Ron Bertram, president of the Australian
unit of AOPA. CASA executive Bruce Gemmell said last week that his agency needs to boost annual revenues from the industry from $5 million to $20 million by 2008-2009, The Australian reported on Friday. Bertram responded that hikes on that scale would
not only threaten GA's economic survival, but also raise safety issues. "If you can't afford it, what happens? Do you operate unsafely?" he asked.
 The Bell/Agusta BA609, a civilian version of the Osprey V-22
tiltrotor aircraft, flew in Arlington, Texas, last week for the first time since 2003. During the 1.3-hour flight, the crew tested hover mode forward, sideways and backwards, and navigated the pattern
at 86 knots with 75-degree forward tilt on the outboard nacelles. During the next month, the aircraft will be tested in airplane mode, where it can achieve a top speed of over 275 knots, according to
Bell. The BA609 will cruise at up to 25,000 feet and seat up to nine passengers plus two pilots. Bell says it has 60 orders for the aircraft. Dual certification (European and FAA) is planned in 2008,
with deliveries following soon after. Bell said the programmed pause in flight testing was for developmental engineering configuration. The military Osprey program was temporarily derailed in December
2000 after two crashes killed 23 Marines.
A report by the Navy Judge Advocate General blamed two Blue Angels pilots and an outdated flight manual for a crash that destroyed an F/A-18 Hornet jet, The Associated Press reported on Thursday. The crash occurred when a new team member on a training flight off the
Florida coast was completing a split-S maneuver on his own for the first time. His jet hit the water. The aircraft was damaged, but the pilot was able to keep flying and headed back toward Pensacola
Naval Air Station to make an emergency landing. When the jet began sinking too fast, the pilot ejected over the ocean. The Navy report found the trainee made mistakes, but the pilot who briefed him on
the maneuver should have been more clear and should have spoken up sooner when he noticed deviations. The report also found that the flight-manual instructions for the maneuver were 10 years old,
ambiguous and misleading. The lost jet was worth about $18 million. Both pilots will remain with the Blue Angels.
On Saturday, June 18, San Diego's Aerospace Museum will play host to some truly remarkable women, and you can be
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