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FAA Takes a Fresh Look at GA Airports 29 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
Taking “A fresh look at the many roles General Aviation Airport play in the National Air Transportation System,” the FAA recently released the 34-page report of its in-depth, 18-month study of roughly...
Reflecting on Flight Training’s Matriarch 17 May 2012 | 03:00 pm
Evelyn Bryan Johnson died May 10, 2012 in her 102nd year. She was a flight instructor. She stopped counting the number of people she’d taught to fly when the number passed 3,000. A designated pilot ex...
CFIs Need Career Situational Awareness 10 May 2012 | 04:09 pm
Last week, the middle school where I am a substitute teacher held its annual career and hobby day, where students sign up for presentations that interest them. I was on duty as a student wrangler, no...
No User Fees for GA … Yet 7 May 2012 | 08:13 am
I was trying to explain some of the subtleties behind the word altruism to my daughter this morning at breakfast, and it made me think about the fight against aviation user fees. And yes, we have a f...
A Million Reports, Accidents & Demographics 30 Apr 2012 | 08:44 am
On April 24, the e-mail edition of Callback arrived in my in box. It proudly announced that the NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System had processed its one millionth safety incident report on March 21...
The Best and the Worst In-Flight Movies 27 Apr 2012 | 10:40 am
I’ve been a movie geek since I was a kid. So how could I refuse Zac’s Colbert’s (relation to Stephen Colbert??) request to pontificate about which movies are his favorites during airline travel? I won...
What’s Aviation’s Future in a Polarized World? 21 Apr 2012 | 10:10 am
At the World Aviation Training Symposium, held last week in Orlando, Boeing’s chief test & evaluation pilot for new airplane development, Mike Carriker, said the industry must modernize its educationa...
Veterans: Be Cautious About Non-Accredited College Programs 20 Apr 2012 | 05:30 pm
As a Vietnam-Era veteran myself and someone who used the G.I. Bill to cover the cost of some of my early flight training, I was more than a little interested when June Olsen approached me about writin...
Challenge Notes Importance of Flight Time 16 Apr 2012 | 04:02 pm
For decades, individuals and organizations have focused attention and effort on rebuilding the pilot population. But for the first time in memory, AOPA is drawing attention to—and doing something abou...
Flying Cars, the Fun Factor, and Their Future 11 Apr 2012 | 01:22 pm
The PAL-V, a hot-rod trike with a fold away gyrocopter rotor and prop. The Terrafugia Transition’s appearance at the New York auto show made the news recently. Flying cars have been an interesting en...
