Will Be Recognized For Outstanding Achievement And Leadership

The NBAA will present Holly Pendleton – a former chairman, vice chairman and currently education coordinator for the Association’s Schedulers & Dispatchers (S&D) Committee – with NBAA’s 2015 Schedulers & Dispatchers Outstanding Achievement & Leadership Award.

Service Established From Newest Base At Butte, MT Bert Mooney Airport

EagleMed LLC has begun flying critical care air medical transport flights throughout Southwest Montana from its newest base at Butte’s Bert Mooney Airport. The company will lease a new dedicated 10,000 square foot hangar that is being built at the airport especially for its use.

Designed To Keep UAVs, Manned Aircraft Separated

The U.S. Army is installing ground-based "sense and avoid" radar at five bases around the country to prevent collisions between manned and unmanned aircraft.

Will Power All Air Force C-130J Aircraft

The US Air Force has awarded a contract worth over $100 million to Rolls-Royce to purchase spare engines and parts for its C-130J fleet and to support Foreign Military Sales customers.

Initial Unit To Be Used For Laboratory Testing

The first set of electric systems for COMAC's new C919 jetliner have been produced by Xi'an AVIC Hamilton Sundstrand Aviation Electric Co., Ltd. (AUAE), a joint venture of UTC Aerospace Systems (through Hamilton Sundstrand Holdings, Inc.) and AVIC Shaanxi Aero Electric Co., Ltd. The system is scheduled for delivery in November.

Enhances Airline Flight Planning Operations, Company Says

Jeppesen recently introduced a new Electronic Flight Folder service to enhance flight planning operations for airlines. The new Electronic Flight Folder service increases situational awareness in flight for pilots and improves ground-to-air communication and integration of digital flight plan information.

Object Fell To Earth In California Two Years Ago

Researchers digging deeper into the origins of the Sutter's Mill meteorite, which fell in California's Gold Country in 2012, found diamonds and other "treasures" that provide important new insight into the early days of our solar system. They report their results in thirteen papers in the November issue of Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

EFB Services Moving Airline Away From Paper-Based Flight Materials

Jeppesen recently signed a new three-year service contract with Pegasus Airlines, a leading low-cost carrier of Turkey, to provide the airline with Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro electronic flight bag (EFB) services with tailored digital charts. The agreement provides access to Jeppesen's industry-leading digital navigation charts and NavData information through both FliteDeck Pro on Windows-based tablets and the e-Link online platform to reduce use of paper-based flight materials.

Go Around Instructions for a pilot to abandon his/her approach to landing. Additional instructions may follow. Unless otherwise advised by ATC, a VFR aircraft or an aircraft conducting visual approach should overfly the runway while climbing to traffic pattern altitude and enter the traffic pattern via the crosswind leg. A pilot on an IFR flight plan making an instrument approach should execute the published missed approach procedure or proceed as instructed by ATC; e.g., "Go around" (additional instructions if required).

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"Ultimately, we would like to completely eliminate paper-based flight information from our aircraft fleet and Jeppesen provides the foundation for achieving the necessary paperless authorization to do so." Source: Omer Kaya, vice president, Performance & CIT, Pegasus Airlines, after siging a three year deal with Jeppesen to provide the airline with Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro electronic flight bag (EFB) services with tailored digital charts.