ANN Daily Touch-And-Go: 04.29.09 (ANN's
Short-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 04.29.09 (ANN's
Long-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Special Feature: Cessna CEO Jack Pelton, cont'd -
04.29.09 (ANN Special Report, with Cessna CEO
Jack Pelton)
Part Three Of Our Three Question Survey From The AEA 2009
Convention and Tradeshow
Few sub-industries within aviation prove to be as much of a
bellwether as does the avionics industry. While most of the recent
major developments in aviation utility can be laid at the doorstep
of all things avionics, this industry benefits from both major
business outlets... new and upgrade sales. So... as goes the
avionics industry, so goes the rest of aviation...
Action for
Airfields
Action for Airfields is an independent campaign launched to
encourage mass, grass roots level support for General Aviation
airfields in the UK.
"The Transport Canada rule is eight hours, but we have
that additional buffer for safety reasons. The bottom line is that
pilots are not supposed to have a drink for 12 hours before they
operate an aircraft."
Source: Air Canada
spokesperson, Peter Fitzpatrick, explaining the regs around
alcohol consumption for the airline, as well as for Transport
Canada... after one of the airline's pilots was removed from a B777
flight on suspicion of alcohol abuse.
Hadley
Circulation
An average thermal circulation in a planet's atmosphere due to
warm air rising at lower latitudes, moving to higher latitudes,
then descending and moving back to lower latitudes nearer the
surface. On Earth, such circulations, known as Hadley cells, exist
between the equator and 30° N/S (the most prominent and
permanent cells), 30° N/S and 60° N/S, and 60° N/S and
the poles.
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