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War Plans Prompt More Restrictions New York Gets ADIZ, More TFRs Added… Well, we knew something was coming and compared to some of the scenarios speculated in the days before President Bush made his Monday-night speech, the flight restrictions imposed on GA are relatively mild. “There were reports that we were going to impose ADIZs […]

The Fight To Stay In Business WMU Consolidates Aviation Programs… Western Michigan University (WMU) — which has held contracts with British Airways, Aer Lingus, Emirates Airlines and European Pilot Selection and Training, and is one of the largest aviation colleges in the U.S. — is giving up on its foreign pilot training program. At WMU, […]

Eclipse Picks Pratt And Whitney Canada Engine In Same Family As Mustang’s… As AVweb speculated two months ago, the Eclipse 500 and Cessna Mustang will use derivatives of the same engine. Eclipse Aviation announced Wednesday that Pratt and Whitney Canada (PWC) will build the engines for the five-place 500. The announcement comes three months after […]

FAA Defends Pilots? D.C. Stingers Target Them… The agency we occasionally love to hate told AVweb it’s looking out for GA interests as various security-inspired measures — including jeep-mounted anti-aircraft stinger missiles freshly redeployed this week around the capital — seemingly put the crosshairs on an already-targeted GA sector. FAA spokesman Greg Martin said the […]

The Beat Goes On D.C. Becomes Air Defense Identification Zone… With the national terror level ramped up to “Orange,” the FAA and TSA on Saturday issued new airspace restrictions over broad swaths of the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore areas, to take effect at 6 a.m. today. The new airspace control measures create an Air Defense […]

Changing The Rules Parts 125, 135 Reviewed… The FAA says it’s time for its charter regulations to catch up with the times. The agency issued a notice Monday that it’s doing a wholesale review of FAR Parts 125 and 135. “Industry dynamics, new technologies, new aircraft types and configurations and current operating issues and environment […]

Nowadays, everyone wants a moving map along with their GPS. Up until now, you’ve hadthree options: Why doesn’t someone come out with a good, high-resolution, easy-to-read moving mapintegrated into a panel-mounted GPS? I’m happy to tell you that II Morrow has done exactlythat with their new GX55. As if that wasn’t enough, II Morrow went […]

Late last year, Mobil Corporationsettleda class-action lawsuit brought by Cessna T210 owner Malvern Grosson behalf of owners of Teledyne Continental engines damaged bythe use of Mobil’s AV-1 synthetic oil. In the hard-fought andcomplex settlement, Mobil agreed to pay for inspection and repairof TCM 360/470/520/550 engines that used AV-1 oil for more than150 hours. It now […]