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By The AVweb Editorial Staff
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Adam Aircraft Designs & Manufactures the A700 AdamJet & A500 Centerline Piston Twin
Adam Aircraft's A700 features twin Williams FJ-33 engines, state-of-the-art avionics, and comfortable seating for eight (or seven with an aft lavatory). The A700 is currently undergoing flight
test and development. Adam Aircraft's A500 centerline piston twin has been Type Certified by the FAA and offers superior safety, range, and performance, along with the pressurized comfort of a
roomy six-seat interior.
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Eclipse Aviation president and CEO Vern Raburn yesterday confirmed in a memo to customers that the Eclipse 500 test fleet has been grounded for at the past two weeks or so because of a problem with
the aft wing attach bolt bushing. Raburn told AVweb that the problem was discovered during a routine inspection and in no way could have led to wing separation or failure. According to Eclipse,
the aft wing attach bolt -- one of four wing attach bolts, two of which carry the main load -- primarily prevents forward and aft wing flexing during hard landings. The snafu centered around
improperly installed bushings, which "migrated and caused the hole to become elongated," though ever so slightly -- about a tenth of an inch, Raburn says. Still, that was enough for Eclipse to
voluntarily ground the test fleet. Moreover, Eclipse says the problem does not affect production airplanes. The company chief pointed out that this is exactly why Eclipse long ago decided to log so
many hours on its test fleet: "We've flown more than 3,300 hours, so we're the ones finding the kinds of problems that customers normally find out in the field." Besides temporarily putting on hold
flight testing of the very light jet's new metal tip tanks and aerodynamic improvements, the grounding was also responsible for the Eclipse 500's no-show at AOPA Expo last week, Raburn said. One test
aircraft is be back in the air today, with the rest coming online by the middle of next week. Once it's flying again, the test fleet will finish flutter testing of the new tip tanks.
 The memo to customers also identifies another problem seen in the test fleet -- windscreen cracking in the patch holes,
where the windscreen attaches to the airframe. Eclipse Aviation president and CEO Vern Raburn said the cracks are only on the outer layer, so they aren't posing any pressurization problems (at least
not yet). "However, it is a fatigue issue," he told AVweb, "and they're occurring much sooner than they should." In the short-term, Eclipse will require future operators to conduct a 100-cycle
visual inspection to check for any windscreen cracks. Longer term, the company is working on an improved windscreen mounting method, which will be retrofitted to the fleet at Eclipse's cost. "We will
have a fix in short order," Raburn promised. The memo also addresses concerns posted on blogs about the very light jet's center of gravity. "As with most small jets, the c.g. is naturally a little
aft," Raburn told AVweb. "However, this poses a problem only when there's a 95-pound [sole-occupant] pilot and a light fuel load," implying that few, if any, customers will have c.g. issues
with the airplane under normal operations.
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 The NTSB on Tuesday released the latest version of its "Most Wanted" list of aviation safety improvements. New to the list this year is a request for the FAA to mandate that crews who fly for on-demand air-taxi operators regulated under
Part 135 must be trained in crew resource management (CRM). The training should include a review of accidents and offer instruction in skills and techniques for effective crew coordination. The board
said several recent investigations of fatal Part 135 accidents showed the operator didn't have a CRM program, or if it did, it fell short of the training required for Part 121 crews. The safety board
cited the 2002 crash that killed Sen. Paul Wellstone. "Although the FAA has agreed in principal [sic] with
the recommendation, no discernable progress has been made," the NTSB said.
 The NTSB also cited runway incursions, which have been cited every year since the list’s inception in 1990. "These incidents
continue to occur with alarming frequency," the NTSB said. "The FAA indicates that during fiscal year 2005 there were 327 incursions, and during 2006 there were 330. A system introduced by the FAA
provides warning to air traffic controllers, but not to the flight crews, a fact that severely reduces the amount of time that pilots have to react to an impending incursion." The NTSB wants the FAA
to implement a safety system that would provide direct warning to flight crews. Also among the board's concerns were pilot fatigue and icing. Rest rules for pilots and mechanics are "archaic" in many
cases, the board said. The FAA should establish scientifically based regulations that set limits on hours of service, provide predictable work and rest schedules, and consider human sleep and rest
requirements. The FAA also needs to conduct more research on aircraft structural icing and revise its criteria for icing certification and its rules for operating in icing conditions, the NTSB
said.
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PowerLink™ FADEC Certified on Liberty XL-2; Is It Right for Your Aircraft?
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certified and experimental aircraft, including the A-36 Bonanza and VANS RV series. Find out how you can bring your aircraft into the state-of-the-art
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 A federal judge in Brazil said on Monday that the two U.S. pilots who were flying a Legacy jet involved in a midair collision in September still cannot leave the country. The pilots -- Joe Lepore and Jan
Paladino, both from New York -- have been in seclusion in a hotel in Rio de Janeiro while the investigation continues into the accident, in which all 154 people on board a Gol Airlines 737 were
killed. Reporter Joe Sharkey, who was a passenger on the Legacy jet, wrote in his blog that last week it seemed the pilots might be released,
as the investigation's focus appeared to be shifting to air traffic control. [more] Then rumors that the pilots had been flying "reckless aerial maneuvers" to show off the new jet resurfaced, and
opinion once more turned against the pilots, Sharkey says. A preliminary report on the accident is due to be released today.
 The Legacy was flying straight and level before the collision, Sharkey says, and adds, "The Legacy pilots' skill and courage saved
my butt." He says a lawyer for the pilots will appeal the judge's decision on the grounds that of all the professionals involved in the accident, only the pilots are being detained. This
"discriminatory treatment" will be challenged under the principle of habeas corpus, because authorities have presented no evidence against the pilots to warrant their extended detention, Sharkey
notes. The Legacy safely made an emergency landing after the collision and all seven people aboard were unharmed. Meanwhile, flight delays continue across the country as air traffic controllers stick with their "work to
rule" campaign. Controllers are protesting work conditions in the wake of the worst crash in Brazil's history. Ten controllers who were on duty that day were placed on leave, and the controllers who remain say they are overworked. Many have been calling in sick in
recent weeks. The government says it will hire more controllers but they won't be ready to start until early next year.
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Aircraft Spruce Carries the Piper PA-28 Wings in Focus DVD
Wings in Focus: Piper PA-28 Series is the first in a collection that will profile popular light aircraft. As well as this beautifully paced program, the DVD has other interesting and
informative special features: A detailed video guide informs the viewer what to look for when buying a pre-owned PA-28, there is a quick video tour of New Piper's Vero Beach factory, and much more.
For more information, please call 1-877-4-SPRUCE, or
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 The new V-6 engine that was promoted at Oshkosh last summer as the REV will be shelved, BRP-Rotax said this week. BRP-Rotax, based in Austria, said it will complete the certification of the
engine next month, but then will not proceed with bringing it to market. The company will continue to offer its 912 and 914 models for recreational aircraft. "We have come a long way with the V6
engine and are proud of what we have accomplished," said Gerd Ohrnberger, general manager of BRP-Rotax. "However, when BRP was sold three years ago, management decided to concentrate the company's
core activities on powersports products. Today's announcement will ensure that BRP-Rotax's human and financial resources continue to contribute to our company's mainstream activities and its
growth." Aircraft Engine Services, of Titusville, Fla., had announced at Oshkosh that it would be providing product support and marketing for the V-6 engines in the U.S. AES head Luc de Gaspe Beaubien told AVweb on Tuesday that the
Rotax decision puts an end to those plans. "We're winding down that program and looking for other opportunities," he said. There was a lot of market interest in the engines, he said, but concerns
about insurance and product liability likely weighed into Rotax's decision. A call to BRP-Rotax in Austria wasn't returned at press time.
 Thielert, a German company that builds diesel aircraft
engines, has rebutted accusations alleging that some of its financial reports were fraudulent. The allegations first surfaced in October, and briefly deflated the company's stock price by 40 percent,
Thielert says. At that time, the company said its balance sheets had been approved by auditors and also passed an additional stringent review before its initial public offering. CEO Frank Thielert
comments: "We are confident that our good products and excellent market position will enable us to press ahead ... We will do everything in our power to defuse the allegations as quickly as possible."
This week's statement from the company said the allegations have been discussed in Internet forums. "The machinations are becoming increasingly grotesque in so far as it is alleged that Thielert AG
does not have products at all and merely exists through fictitious invoices," according to the statement. "Thielert engines have been operating in general aviation and unmanned aerial vehicles for
years. Far in excess of 1,500 engines have been built and sold." The company's stock has largely recovered from the initial dip and has responded less drastically to later "waves" of accusations, the
statement said. Third-quarter results were released this week, and show sales and profits on
the rise. Thielert also builds engines under the Centurion brand. They're available as a retrofit for the Cessna 172 and Piper PA-28 and
are factory-installed in Diamond DA40s and Twin Stars.
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Life Is 3D — Now, So Is Your Flight Log
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 Wounded veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have many challenges ahead, but finding transportation shouldn't be one of
them. That's the view of a new nonprofit group, Veterans Airlift Command (VAC), which is recruiting volunteer pilots and aircraft owners to
lend air support to recovering soldiers and their families. The group recently flew its first mission, bringing an injured Marine from Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C., to his home in Florida. Walt
Fricke, founder and CEO of VAC, called on father and son Billy and Christopher Ball to pilot the first mission. They flew their Cirrus from Jacksonville, Fla., to pick up Cpl. Christopher Brink. The
trip home to Florida, which would have required 13 hours and three layovers on commercial flights, took only three hours in the Cirrus. "This is a great way for us to give back and a really cool
experience overall," said Christopher Ball. "You just can't imagine the appreciation of the young men and women we are helping."
 Mooney's Acclaim, Ovation2 GX and Ovation3 can now be equipped with Garmin's new GFC 700 autopilot, Mooney said this week. The FAA has certified the installation on all three models. The GFC 700 is a three-axis,
fully digital, dual-channel, fail-passive Automatic Flight Control System. "The GFC 700 marks the first time single-engine piston pilots will have the option of flying with a completely integrated
cockpit -- where all of the elements of the avionics panel are designed to communicate with each other for the purpose of reducing pilot workload and enhancing safety of flight," said David Copeland,
Mooney's vice president of sales and marketing. The system features roll, pitch and yaw control, with automatic pitch trim and Mach trim control. The GFC 700 is capable of using all the data available
to the G1000, including the ability to maintain airspeed references and to optimize performance over the entire airspeed envelope, making it GA's first and only fully integrated avionics system,
Mooney said.
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 The Freedom amphibian, built by Spanish manufacturer Colyaer, was approved last week as a Special Light Sport Aircraft. The
airplane, which is built of carbon fiber, Kevlar, Nomex and epoxy, won recognition earlier this year at Sun 'n Fun, where it was named best composite seaplane. It also won a takeoff award, averaging
six to eight seconds to skip into the air. Its three-bladed pusher prop is powered by a 100-hp Rotax 912, and its 40-foot wingspan brings a reported 20:1 glide ratio. It's been tested in seas as high
as one foot, and the retractable landing gear is designed to tolerate unimproved fields. The FAA's rule against reconfiguring the landing gear in flight remains in force. The U.S. distributor, LSA Aero, of Decatur, Ala., says it has filed petitions with the FAA for an exemption to that rule. For now, a sport pilot can't reconfigure the
airplane's gear in flight, but a private pilot (or higher certificate) with a complex endorsement can. Colyaer also builds a Martin3 landplane and Gannet seaplane, which are in the process of LSA
certification. The airplanes have been flying in Europe for about eight years.
 Two fatal crashes this year might have been affected by FAA staff changes, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) said yesterday. In one incident, a local radar
facility was closed for the night when a twin-engine Beech Baron crashed on approach in Lawrenceville, Ill.,
last month, killing the pilot. NATCA says local approach controllers should have been guiding the aircraft, but instead the flight was being handled by the Indianapolis Air Route Traffic Control
Center. An accident in April at the Bloomington, Ind., airport, in which five people aboard a Cessna U206G were
killed, also resulted from the reduced quality of air traffic services available to the pilot, NATCA said. FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown told AVweb yesterday that the NTSB has not yet determined
a probable cause for either of those two accidents. She added that many airports have transferred their approach control radar services over to a center during times of low activity. "At Terre Haute,
approach control services were transferred in February 2006," Brown said, "because of low activity on the overnight 11 to 7 shift, averaging just two flights a night." She added that center
controllers who provide approach control services are trained to do so. "We have looked at the information from both accidents, at Bloomington and Lawrenceville, that we got from active controllers,"
said NATCA Great Lakes Regional Vice President Bryan Zilonis. "And we have reached the conclusion that the absence of an experienced approach controller at Terre Haute TRACON working these flights
definitely had an impact on these events."
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Piaggio promises both style and performance in its new jet design, but is revealing no details. The new jet is expected to launch sometime next year, Flight Global reports...
Bell/Agusta flew the second prototype of its BA609 tilt-rotor aircraft for the first time last
week in Cameri, Italy. The aircraft flew for 52 minutes and successfully changed nacelle positions...
A Cessna 172 pilot made a safe emergency landing in a riverside
park in Brooklyn on Tuesday. The pilot said the engine failed and he did as he was trained to do. The landing was a "walk in the park," he told reporters...
A pilots' group joined two environmental organizations in a lawsuit filed Tuesday opposing the construction of an "airport to nowhere" in Panama City, Fla...
A Manitoba man was badly hurt when he was struck by the propeller of a Cessna 150 while helping the
pilot to taxi his airplane across a road...
Swiss start-up company Aviace has dropped its lawsuit against Eclipse Aviation. Aviace said Eclipse improperly
cancelled its orders, but a judge said Aviace indeed owed over a half million dollars to Eclipse...
A 1978 Cessna T210M Centurion II has been reported stolen from El Gallito, Mexico. The aircraft, N6991B, went missing early Monday morning. For more info or to report a sighting, contact ACPI Intl: 011-386-341-7270 or U.S. 800-969-5473, e-mail: acpiusa@aol.com. $10,000 reward.
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DA40 Diamond Star a Fleet Favorite
Airline Transport Professionals, Beijing PanAm, Empire Aviation, Middle Tennessee State University, Utah Valley State College, and Utah State University have all selected the G1000-equipped DA40
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Probable Cause #19: Fuel And The IFR Pilot
A pilot in IMC runs out of options as the fuel needles bounce on empty. When flying
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 AVweb posts audio news on Mondays, plus a new in-depth interview each Friday. In Friday's podcast, you'll find an interview with Cessna chairman, president and CEO Jack Pelton, covering the company's light sport aircraft
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Adam and New Piper CEO Jim Bass. In today's news summary, hear about how the elections will affect the user-fee push; the FAA takes a hard
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This Week's Question
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Last Week's Results
PREVIOUS RESULTS ***
Last week, with mid-term elections in U.S. fresh on our minds, we
asked whether readers thought the dramatic shift of power from
Republicans to Democrats in both houses of Congress might thwart the
strong push for user fees in the upcoming FAA reauthorization bill.
The largest segment of our respondents (44%) thought that yes,
this did bode ill for user fees — but the rest of you were split almost
evenly between saying no, this won't affect the drive for user fees
and I'm not sure.
For the complete breakdown of last week's poll answers,
click here.
THIS WEEK'S QUESTION ***
This week, AVweb wants to know how much risk our instrument-rated
pilots are willing to shoulder. Tell us: Do you ever fly
single-engine piston airplanes into solid IMC?
Click here to answer.
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AVweb's "FBO of the Week" ribbon goes to Montgomery Aviation at KTYQ in Indianapolis, Ind.
AVweb reader Justin Klump simply said that the FBO is tops and deserves to be highlighted in AVweb.
"Montgomery Aviation is a first class facility operated by first class people. You are always greeted with a smile. They are definitely deserving of the FBO Of The Week award."
Keep those nominations coming.
For complete contest rules, click here. AVweb is actively seeking out the best FBOs in the country and another one, submitted by you, will be
spotlighted here next Monday!
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So — is it Helicopter Week on the Discovery Channel or something?
Nearly every submission in this week's "POTW" file has rotors — from
military choppers all the way to gyrocopters. We love a good
coincidental theme as much as anyone — gives us a picture of what AVweb
readers are interested in this week, y'know — but come on, seriously,
did you guys stage this? Out of 108 entries received this week, 66
feature rotored aircraft, and another 12 were taken from the seats of
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of Old Chatham, New York kicks things off this week with "a beautifully
restored P-51 in Provo, Utah reflect[ing] a beautiful
mid-afternoon sky." James admits to using some PhotoShop filters,
which makes him the first "POTW" winner we've had in a couple of years
to apply a digital effect to his photo. The result is "an image that captures for me the mystique of bridging
earth with sky through the medium of an airplane."
We'll be sending James an official AVweb baseball cap for
contributing this week's top photo. If you'd like a shot at one of
these hats, remember:
You gotta be in
it to win it!
(Comments on the use of PhotoShop filters and "POTW" rules?
It's an ongoing discussion we haven't revisited in a while, but if you
have opinions to voice, we'd love to
hear 'em. Depending on volume, we probably won't be able to
respond individually, but we will read all your comments and take them
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Larry Raulston of Neosho, Missouri
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Simon Barlow of Manchester, England
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Flightseeing Tour of Denali
Shannnon Wamsley of Torrance,
California writes, "I caught this image as a front-seat passenger the
last day of September in Alaska. It was the only day it didn't rain on
my trip and the perfect day to fly around Mt. McKinley in a De Havilland
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Mark Murdock of
Griffin, Georgia "had the Army Aviation Heritage Foundation using
our back yard as a practice arena over the weekend." And if you
think that sounds cool, you should see the rest of the photos
Mark submitted. Apparently he spent the weekend riding around in
Cobras and eyeing some of the U.S. Army's best toys.
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... and that does it for our unofficial Helicopter Week. Help us
remember it next year — the week of Veterans' Day!
To enter next week's contest,
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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,
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