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July, 2011
- Daily Best of Aviation Blogs and News via Connecting Pilots Sent Monday, July 4, 2011 Dream Machines - 2011-07-02 14:00:08-04 Embedded with The Hoppers: Battle Creek 2011 - 2011-07-03 05:05:58-04 LightSquared/GPS Issue Over To FCC - 2011-07-03 12:12:38-04 Amid of flurry of dueling press releases, the stakeholders in LightSquared/GPS controversy turned their fortunes over to the Federal Communications Commission in what has become one of the most controversial applications before the commission in recent memory. LightSquared wants to build a nation-wide network […]
- Daily Best of Aviation Blogs and News via Connecting Pilots Sent Saturday, July 2, 2011 Flying the Skycatcher: A Review of the Cessna 162 - 2011-06-26 20:59:55-04 Pocket Protector Optional - 2011-06-29 14:50:28-04 Hours Nine and Ten - 2011-06-30 20:00:02-04 Petrozavodsk Disaster - 2011-07-01 11:06:03-04
June, 2011
- Daily Best of Aviation Blogs and News via Connecting Pilots Sent Sunday, June 26, 2011 Best of the Web - 2011-06-26 00:34:00-04 The Perception About Business Jets. Gabriella Somerville, the founder of UK-based ConnectJets back in 2009 during the financial crises, recently gave a podcast interview with AVweb. In the interview, she pointed out how getting away from using words like luxury to instead talk about private aviation as a smart and efficient business tool has been [...] Related posts:Best of the Web Un-cluttering the cockpit Reducing risk in the cockpit […]
- Daily Best of Aviation Blogs and News via Connecting Pilots Sent Saturday, June 25, 2011 Harrier Pilots for a Day - 2011-04-23 22:58:17-04 If you’re coming to Oshkosh, get ready for Airplanista Magazine’s new #Tweeplechase game - 2011-06-22 18:03:00-04 Airplanista Magazine, a popular new media, online publication, is launching a fun game for three days during EAA Airventure Oshkosh. Called #Tweeplechase, this new event will lead players on a clue-by-clue hunt to win prizes as they follow the #tweeplechase hashtag on Twitter. The game is scheduled to be played […]
- Daily Best of Aviation Blogs and News via Connecting Pilots Sent Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Now THIS is a cross country - 2011-06-20 12:31:00-04 http://twitter.com/theracingacesOn Sunday I left for my major trip to promote Girls With Wings in conjunction with the Racing Aces and the Air Race Classic. We had originally planned to leave Monday, but a little heads up from the other racers that the weather was going go downhill rapidly this week caused us to depart a day early. I had been checking the weather since Friday - via the Weather channel, Aviation Digital Data […]
- Daily Best of Aviation Blogs and News via Connecting Pilots Sent Monday, June 20, 2011 From light aircraft to wide-body airliner - 2011-06-19 14:00:36-04 Short Final - 2011-06-20 01:46:54-04 My sister-in-law and I were working together across the production bench a few years back as the local ATC scanner played in the background. The controller cleared an aircraft to take off, ending the transmission with, "Wind calm."Instead, my sister-in-law heard, "... when calm."She was quite alarmed that ATC would clear a pilot to take off but gave them time to calm down […]
- Daily Best of Aviation Blogs and News via Connecting Pilots Sent Sunday, June 19, 2011 Misconfigured Piper Arrow has a fatal crash taking off from a short grassy runway - 2011-06-18 11:10:00-04 General Aviation News recently posted an excerpt from a June 2009 National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) about a fatal crash involving a misconfigured Piper Arrow in Scotia New York that resulted in three fatalities. According to the accident report, a flight instructor and student pilot with a passenger in the backseat were attempting to take [...] Related […]
- Daily Best of Aviation Blogs and News via Connecting Pilots Sent Saturday, June 18, 2011 Treetop Flyer – The Classic Low Level Flying Video - 2011-06-17 11:13:08-04 Aviation Stories for June 17, 2011 - 2011-06-17 11:43:39-04 On the Web - 2011-06-17 15:46:10-04 Air Race Classic Preparations - 2011-06-17 19:02:00-04 As usual, an event you've been looking forward to for months just seems to pop up on the horizon before you know it. I've been burying my head in the stack of books studying for my Certificated Flight Instructor rating and in the meantime the Air Race […]
- Daily Best of Aviation Blogs and News via Connecting Pilots Sent Friday, June 17, 2011 Geekdoms Collide Saturday at Udvar-Hazy - 2011-06-16 15:52:10-04 LightSquared Update - 2011-06-17 01:16:16-04 Recent tests have shown that LightSquared's proposed grid of 40,000 wireless network ground stations could interfere with GPS signals, and now the FCC has granted LightSquared a two week extension to file a report on its position. LightSquared's report was originally due Wednesday, the same day the FCC granted the extension. LightSquared spokesman Jim Carlisle said […]
- Daily Best of Aviation Blogs and News via Connecting Pilots Sent Thursday, June 16, 2011 Diamond Confirms Investment and Resumption of D-JET Program - 2011-06-14 13:41:56-04 Back To The Jet Biz! Having more than its share of trials and tribulations, ANN was pleased to confirm that the Diamond D-Jet is getting back on track... Following layoffs and other reluctant steps taken to maximize cash flow while searching for enough funding to complete the program, it now appears that the D-Jet program can throttle up once again. More CFI Workshop Notes - 2011-06-15 […]