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September 24, 2006

ANN's Daily Aero-Tips (09.24.06): Deviation

Aero-Tips!

Need to steer around a cumulus build-up while on an Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) flight plan? Air Traffic Control (ATC) is usually quite willing to let you deviate as requested, if you ask in a way they understand and provide some basic information they can use to predict where you'll be so they can route you around other traffic.

Aero-Linx!

Have a sticky situation that you can’t seem to get a handle on? This to That can help.

Aero-Terms!

An airplane with two wings (two pairs) where one, often the lowest is significantly smaller than the other in span or chord.

"This is about as final as it can get."

Source: Walter Curchack, attorney with law firm Loeb & Loeb. Curchack was referring to Pan Am's final act which will be to distribute $31 million among its 15,000 former employees. The money is a settlement from Pan Am's law suit against the Libyan government for Libya's part in the Pan Am flight 103 bombing. Pan Am folded a few years after the bombing, owing many of its 15,000 employees for unpaid wages and unused leave.