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July 15, 2022

Airborne-Flight Training 07.07.22: AA Pay Increases, Elektra Trainer, Skyborne

Also: Record Keeping Regulation, Electric Aircraft Symposium, Drone/UAV Rule, FedEx Pilots

In a move certain to foment increased informational picketing outside the hubs and headquarters of its competitors, American Airlines has offered its pilots pay increases of up to $64,000. The move sets a new benchmark in the cash-grab into which the post-COVID airline industry has descended. American Airlines CEO Robert Isom has outlined a proposal entailing a 16.9% pay-raise for the carrier’s fourteen-thousand pilots. This could be your next trainer... Elektra Solar has successfully test-flown the Elektra Trainer, the company’s two-seat, electric, u

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Air Traffic Service (ATS) Routes The term “ATS Route” is a generic term that includes “VOR Federal airways,” “colored Federal airways,” “jet routes,” and “RNAV routes.” The term “ATS route” does not replace these more familiar route names, but serves only as an overall title when listing the types of routes that comprise the United States route structure.

“The education center was built to enhance aviation education for kids and pilots unlike any other facility. Part of EAA’s mission is to grow aviation participation by promoting the spirit of aviation and I think we are doing just that with the educational and technological advancements that we now have available in this new facility.” Source: EAA CEO and Chairman Jack J. Pelton, commenting as the Experimental Aircraft Association has opened its Education Center—originally known as Project 21—with a well-attended, 12 July ribbon-cutting ceremony.