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The airline industry is suffering from “automation addiction,” Rory Kay, co-chair of an FAA committee that is examining pilot training, said in an Associated Press story published on Tuesday. “We’re seeing a new breed of accident with these state-of-the-art planes,” said Kay. “We’re forgetting how to fly.” Pilot skills have been cited by investigators in two recent major accidents, the Buffalo crash of a regional jet in 2009, and the 2009 Air France crash of an Airbus A330. How pilots respond to the sudden loss of automated aircraft systems “is the big issue that we can no longer hide from in aviation,” Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, told the AP. “We’ve been very slow to recognize the consequence of it and deal with it.”

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Aviation type clubs will soon have a cost-free method for sharing service and maintenance information among their members. Continue Reading »

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The FAA acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” when it reversed a longstanding policy and refused to allow aircraft owners to block their flight information from the public, NBAA and AOPA argue in a court brief (PDF) filed this week. “Very real concerns about safety, security and competitiveness justify giving aircraft owners and operators a way to ‘opt-out’ of having their flights tracked by anyone, anywhere in the world with an Internet connection,” said NBAA President Ed Bolen. “The government ignored these concerns, but we believe the court will not be so dismissive.” In their brief, filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, NBAA and AOPA argue that the FAA’s recent revisions to the Block Aircraft Registration Request (BARR) program are unlawful and should be invalidated.

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