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A video available on Vimeo.com shows the visual representation of air traffic over Europe as it is affected by and recovers from flight restrictions imposed in the wake Iceland’s April volcano eruption. The video covers, in 54 seconds, the six day span from April 16 to April 21 as the region dealt with a traveling volcanic ash cloud overhead. It does have a few gaps in coverage due to lack of data from France and over the Atlantic. But the imagery creates clear visual contrasts between the virtual shut down of activity on the 16th and its slow resumption thereafter that, by one analyst’s account, helped cause the disruption of eight percent of global trade. As the region’s activity begins to ramp up to its roughly 25,000 flight per day norm it’s also easy to see the relative inactivity as days turn to night. Video after the jump…

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The Buffalo News printed Friday that the group, Families of Flight 3407, is “outraged” that regulators may be concerned about the potential cost of rules being developed to address pilot fatigue. The group is eager for change to flight crew duty and rest requirements and the Buffalo News reported that the rulemaking has “hit a snag.” The FAA, it says, “is informally consulting with the Office of Management and Budget” and “sources close to the talks said that some at OMB are concerned the FAA will write a proposal that will cost the airlines too much money.” One member of the group said that suggests “cost-benefit analysis is getting in the way” of “crucial safety reform.” The NTSB did not list crew fatigue as a central factor in the crash, but discovered that neither member of Flight 3407′s cockpit crew had slept in a bed the night before the crash. The FAA says its new rules are currently under administration review and the OMB says it hasn’t yet been formally involved.

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Aircraft from all over Alaska, and the Lower 48, are headed to the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) for the 2010 Alaska Airmen’s Association Trade Show and Convention, which opens May 1.

“We have some absolutely beautiful aircraft coming to the show this year,” said Dee Hanson, executive director of the Alaska Airmen’s Association. “We have four different Cessna aircraft coming up from the Lower-48 to participate and some new aircraft like the carbon fiber Gweduck and a new ultralight helicopter, as well as different types of Super Cubs and Husky aircraft.”

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===> Posted on April 29, 2010 by Janice Wood. No comments. © GAN 2010

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