SID’s, STAR’s Airspace Redesign & You
How well do you know your SID’s & your STARS? Leave it to the FAA to change that! Do you use a couple of different airports on those common business or personal trips? Are you used to depart using the runway heading and then at x thousand feet turn left…well you get the picture. You [...]
User Fees stayed out of the FAA Reauthorization Bill
Well if you use Jet-A you still get to pay more! Thanks to the current issues the FAA is facing it helped keep User fees and further cost out of our pockets some of general aviation. Although a 65% rise in fuel tax per gallon from 21.8 cents to 36 cents that still seems kinda steep [...]
FAA & Santa Monica Airport will fight it in court
Santa Monica airport passed a city ordinance under the “protect the safety of our citizens” montra not allowing larger jets to take off or land at it’s airport. The FAA is now taking the city to court stating they do not have the authority to make nor inforce the ban limiting planes with an approach [...]
NTSB Shows Aviation Fatalities Lowest in 40 Years
The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary aviation accident statistics for 2007. The number of GA fatalities decreased by 30 percent; 703 fatalities were reported in 2006 compared to 491 last year, marking the lowest annual total in more than 40 years.
Based on fewer than 10 seats, no fatalities occurred on FAR Part 135 [...]
