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March 9, 2006
NewsWire Complete Issue
By The AVweb Editorial Staff
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Congress must continue to have authority over the FAA, user fees must be avoided, and the general public -- which benefits in broad ways from a robust aviation system -- must continue to fund at least
25 to 30 percent of the FAA budget. So decreed Ed Bolen, president of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), at a press conference yesterday, joined by Pete Bunce and Jim Coyne -- leaders
of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) and the National Air Transportation Association (NATA). The three said they are willing to pay their fair share of running the system, but they
are already doing that by paying fuel taxes, which are easy to collect and efficient to pay. Bolen said that commercial airlines, not general aviation users, drive up the cost of the national airspace
system. "The airlines' hub and spoke system requires a structure that is like building a church with the capacity for Easter Sunday services," he said. "The size, scope, complexity, and cost are
dictated by the commercial airlines." Allocating costs simply by activity would be unfair, the three said. Airline advocates have argued that a "blip is a blip," that it costs no more for ATC to
handle a 737 than a Cirrus or a Citation. But the GA advocates say a blip at 7 a.m. at O'Hare is not the same as a blip at 10 a.m. at a smaller field -- it's the airlines that drive up system costs.
Transportation Norm Mineta added fuel to the fire on Tuesday morning when he emphatically told a House Appropriations Committee that no user fees on GA are under consideration (see AOPA's Web site for
a video of his statement). Questions were raised at yesterday's press conference -- whether he meant piston
aircraft only, as opposed to all segments of GA, which would include business jets. "It's a confusing situation," said Coyne yesterday. But he added that there is unanimous opposition among all
segments of GA. "AOPA and EAA also are united against user fees," he said. Even if the FAA fees were to focus on bizjets and let the smaller operators off the hook, they know better than to think they
wouldn't be next in line. "It's a Pandora's box," he said. Canada's system was cited as a precautionary tale. "GA in Canada have to pay both user fees and fuel taxes," Coyne said.
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By March 20, air traffic facilities that want to continue to use taxi-into-position-and-hold (TIPH) need to notify the FAA, spokeswoman Laura Brown told AVweb on Tuesday. They don't have to
eliminate the procedure. "They can keep using it," she said. But they will have to conduct a safety analysis to show it can be used safely, and also show that there is a safety or capacity reason to
justify its use. "They should stop using it if they don't need to," she said. "But if they want to keep using it, they need to make the case for why to use it." The National Air Traffic Controllers
Association (NATCA), reacting to an FAA notice that went out last week, says eliminating TIPH would decrease safety, increase delays, and lower capacity. The policy will allow larger airports to get
waivers and continue the procedure, while "hundreds of innocent other smaller airports" will have to abandon its use, NATCA President John Carr wrote in his blog yesterday. "This was a poorly thought
out decision on the FAA's part. They are bowing to NTSB pressure because of a few high profile incidents," he wrote.
In a general notice (GENOT) sent out to air traffic facilities, the FAA says that air traffic managers must review the impact that airport configuration and local conditions may have on TIPH
operations, and prepare a facility directive that prescribes local procedures. The GENOT (click through for the pdf file) also stipulates what
staffing must be in place and how workloads can be distributed. The action followed a high-profile runway incursion that took place at Los Angeles International Airport last month. A departing Skywest turboprop was told to taxi onto the same runway on which a Southwest Airlines 737 had
been cleared to land. At the same time, a taxiing Air Canada jet was told that it could cross the other end of the runway on its way to the terminals. The Skywest pilot saw the 737 on final and
stopped short of the runway. The 737 landed without incident, but passed less than 300 feet from the Skywest airplane. The FAA also had issued a GENOT last August asking all ATC towers to review their use of the procedure.
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The AOPA Air Safety Foundation (ASF) has released the 2005 edition of its Joseph T. Nall Report, a review and
analysis of the past year's GA accidents. The report shows a historic low for aviation accidents in 2004, the ASF said. There were 6.7 percent fewer total accidents in 2004 than in 2003, and fatal
accidents declined by 7.1 percent. "Although the accident rate is down this year, there is still work to be done," said Bruce Landsberg, ASF executive director. "Pilot error continues to top the list
of accident causes." Nearly 25 percent of the 45 fatal weather-related accidents involved thunderstorms. The report emphasizes the importance of hazardous-weather avoidance and the need for pilots and
controllers to work together. An online training program about thunderstorm avoidance is due to be released by the ASF this spring. The 2005 Nall Report can be downloaded online. The annual report is dedicated to the memory of Joe Nall, a member of the NTSB who died as a passenger in
an airplane accident in Venezuela in 1989.
The NTSB on Tuesday asked the FAA to require turbine-powered helicopters that carry six or more passengers to be equipped with a terrain awareness and warning system. "It is well past time for the
benefits from these standard safety devices to be made available to passengers on helicopter transports as they are on fixed-wing planes," said NTSB Acting Chairman Mark V. Rosenker. "More than 2
million passengers are carried on Gulf of Mexico oil industry operations alone." The recommendation is part of the NTSB's final report of a fatal helicopter accident in the Gulf of Mexico in March
2004. An Era Aviation Sikorsky S-76A++ crashed about 7:18 p.m., 70 nautical miles offshore of Texas. Although visual meteorological conditions existed, it was a dark night with very few external
visual cues. The helicopter, with two crew, was carrying eight workers to an oil rig. All on board died in the crash. The safety board determined that the probable cause of the accident was the flight crew's failure to identify and arrest the helicopter's descent for undetermined reasons, which resulted in
controlled flight into the water. "A terrain warning system would have given the pilots enough time to arrest their descent and save the lives of all aboard," Rosenker said.
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Helicopters sit and wait on the factory floor in Stratford, Conn., as over 3,000 workers at Sikorsky Aircraft have taken to the picket line in a dispute over health-care coverage. The company proposed
to double health-care co-payments right away and then hike them another 15 percent over three years, union officials told The Associated Press. Sikorsky says it's the same deal that salaried workers get. The workers
sacrificed their paychecks and have been getting stipends from a union fund since the walkout began last month, but a few workers reportedly crossed the line to go back to work this week. Sikorsky says the raises and ratification bonus it has proposed amount
to more than $16,000 over three years, while the higher health-plan contributions total about $3,500 for a family plan. "We hope you will reconsider your strike and come back to work," the company
said in an ad posted on its Web site.
Contrails, those wispy white condensation trails that form behind airplanes, may seem harmless enough. Yet astronomers say they are one more problem making it harder for them to use their telescopes.
While some contrails dissipate quickly, others can persist or even develop into high-level cirrus clouds. "We know from satellite imagery that clusters of contrails can last for two days," Danish
astronomer Holger Pederson told BBC News. "If carried by the upper jet stream through the troposphere, they can travel
hundreds of kilometers." Contrail proliferation, combined with the effect of a warmer and cloudier climate, could make ground-based astronomy impossible within 40 years, the experts told BBC. If
that's not adequately guilt-inducing, "Flying kills," according to George Monbiot, a columnist for The (U.K.)
Guardian. "We all know it, and we all do it." Airplane emissions hasten global warming, Monbiot says, and most airline travel is unnecessary and an indulgence of the wealthy. "Some 92 million
Bangladeshis could be driven out of their homes this century [by rising sea levels], in order that we can still go shopping in New York," he wrote.
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Sino Swearingen President Carl Chen, who had been credited with helping to bring the SJ30 small business jet quickly to FAA certification, has left the company. The company announced his departure last Thursday, saying he had left to
"pursue other interests." But according to the San Antonio Express-News, Chen has filed suit
against the company, saying he was fired due to political pressure from Taiwan. He is seeking $300,000 in back pay and benefits. Swearingen is on the verge of expanding its manufacturing capacity as
it begins to fill almost 300 orders for the SJ30. Meanwhile, the bizjet has completed its required flight test in actual icing conditions, the company said this week. The
test was done last Wednesday in Provo, Utah. The jet had to fly in a holding pattern for 45 minutes in actual maximum continuous icing conditions. The approval flight included another hour of flying
in intermittent icing conditions, which resulted in a build-up of over 4 inches of ice on unprotected areas of the aircraft. "The flight characteristics and handling qualities were very good with this
residual ice accumulation," said test pilot John Siemens. The SJ30 is equipped with electrically heated windshields and uses engine bleed-air heat to anti-ice the wings and engines. Pneumatic boots
de-ice the horizontal tail. The test is one of two that remained for completion when the jet got its FAA Type Certificate last October. The second test is the approval of the airplane's interior. The
SJ30 carries up to seven seats and is certified for single-pilot operations.
With Sun 'n Fun coming up soon, the first year of Special-Light Sport Aircraft manufacturing is about to wrap, and the new industry is making plans to expand. "I'm only guessing here, while we wait
for federal N-number registrations to catch up," says Dan Johnson, EAA's LSA marketing consultant, in his sport-plane blog, "but I'd say
deliveries of SLSA may have numbered 500 aircraft in 2005." Johnson says he expects to see at least twice that many deliveries in 2006. TL Sport Aircraft plans to quadruple production of the popular
StingSport, and Flight Design has announced plans to double output of the CT next year. New Era Aviation, at Massey Ranch Airpark in New
Smyrna Beach, Fla., has been named the StingSport dealer for Florida and the Northeast. Legend Aircraft is building a new plant in Texas to
increase production, and Fly Italia-AveoUSA has a factory expansion in the works with plans to hire 150 additional workers to build its
SportRider. A big LSA presence is expected at Sun ' Fun, April 4-10 in Lakeland, Fla., and AVweb will be there to report on all
the new developments.
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EAA's B-17 Aluminum Overcast flew on Tuesday afternoon, the first flight after 19 months of work to
repair damage from a landing accident in 2004...
Gulfstream Aerospace will expand its manufacturing and service facilities in Savannah, Ga., investing $300
million over seven years and adding 1,100 jobs, the company said on Monday...
The Highland Lakes Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force will host its 16th annual air show on April 8, in
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Five Spitfires flew in formation above Britain on Sunday to mark the 70th
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Scammers are targeting aircraft owners, says AOPA, so beware. Scammers have contacted owners offering
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*** PREVIOUS RESULTS ***
Last week,
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Not surprisingly, they have. 40% of those who responded to our
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choosing our answer I can't believe a company like that is still
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Not all of you were ready to give up on Lycoming, though. A
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of parts manufacturing and that their engines are still top-notch,
while another 17% applauded the company for taking proactive steps
to resolve potential problems.
Only 11 readers, however, were willing to go so far as to say the
"crankshaft crisis" has actually bolstered their faith in Lycoming.
*** THIS WEEK'S QUESTION ***
Unions — good or bad for the aviation industry?
Ballot-stuffing aside, what do you think?
Click here to answer
(No, you don't get a grey-area third option this time.)
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Past POTW Winners "Picture of the Week" submissions were down
a bit this week — numbering less than 50 for the first time in ... um,
in recent memory. Nevertheless, there were quite a few noteworthy
submissions, including this week's winning photo from Jason Apol of
Hopkins, Michigan. Jason's winning shot was fairly representative
of this week's entries, too — most of which were taken at night and with
prolonged exposures.
But let's not leave Jason to do all the heavy lifting on his own.
We'll need your participation to get "POTW" numbers back up, so don't
forget to submit
your aviation photos. If your photo is chosen for our top
spot, you'll end up with a sharp new AVweb baseball cap. (Look for
yours in the mail soon, Jason.)
*** THIS WEEK'S WINNERS ***
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"Blue Moon Arrow"
Jason Apol of Hopkins, Michigan tops
this week's contest entries with a sublime (and well-staged!) evening
photo. Jason tells us that he got the crisp colors by using a
10-second exposure — and a mag light to illuminate the edges of the
craft.
The plane is courtesy of Jason's flying club,
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AVweb continues to receive a large number of excellent images for
our POTW contest. Here are some of the runners-up. Due to privacy issues,
AVweb does not publish e-mail addresses of
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Robert Matheson
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"SFO Landing, Runways 19"
Since 1957, Robert Matheson of
Millbrae, California has been able to gaze out on San Francisco
International's Runway 19.
We can't vouch for his level of peace-and-quiet, but we're in awe of the
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Henry M. Holden
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"Over Griffin, GA"
Inspired by
last
week's photo of Washington National Airport,
Henry Holden of
Randolph, New Jersey went to the closet and dug up this treasure.
The photo was taken from a DC-3 and shows an aerial view of Georgia's
Griffin-Spalding Airport. "To get this shot," Henry writes," I
pushed the window back and almost lost the camera." (We believe
it. You can practically feel the Vertigo in this
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Brian Hallin
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"Night Crossing"
We received quite a few instrument-panel shots this week — probably
inspired by
last
week's photo from Michael Burnett. This one, from
Brian Hallin of
Mundelein, Illinois, really caught our eye. This was another
extended-exposure photo (30 seconds), which is why you can see the
traces of movement on the autothrottles. (Thanks for pointing that
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"Cough It Up, Big Guy"
Trey Carroll of Knightstown, Indiana
had his camera handy last year at AirVenture, where he snapped this shot
of John Lane firing up the Corsair. It's a lesson we'll repeat
again before this year's show: Keep your camera with you at all
times when traveling to Oshkosh. |
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"Headed Back to Sacramento"
Terry J. Wallace of Sacramento,
California takes us home with this week — in more ways than one. |
To enter next week's contest,
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source of your image before submitting to our "Picture of the Week" contest.
If you did not take the photo yourself, ask yourself if you are indeed
authorized to release publication rights to AVweb. If you're uncertain,
consult the
POTW
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