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May 18, 2009

Make That A 'Weird' Weekend -- Airplane Struck By Golf Ball?

Should He Have Asked To Play Through?

ALL kinds of things hit the news desk here at ANN (some of them quite literally...), but we have to admit that this is, undoubtedly, a "new one." It seems that the FAA Incident reports from this past weekend contains a terse but truly unique report of an altercation between a Cessna and a... golf ball.

Pitts Model 12 Overtakes Cessna Skyhawk

It was a tough weekend, as the results from the Monday accident totals revealed, as they were published a short while ago. In one of the more memorable encounters this weekend, a Pitts Model 12 (a big bipe with limited forward viz) overtook and clobbered a Cessna Skyhawk, early Sunday afternoon.

ANN Special Feature: CFI Bob Miller: Flight 3407 Part I - CVR Analysis - 05.18.09

ANN's Paul Plack talks with CFI Bob Miller of Over The Airwaves about last week's release by the National Transportation Safety Board of the cockpit voice recorder transcripts from ill-fated Contin

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ANN Special Feature: CFI Bob Miller: Flight 3407 Part II - Fixing a Broken Training Industry - 05.19.09

ANN's Paul Plack talks with CFI Bob Miller of Over The Airwaves about what it would take to correct the mistakes that led to the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407.

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Partners: Avidyne and PS Engineering Team Up On Release 9

Avidyne And PS Engineering To Deliver Entegra Release 9 Compatible Audio Panel

Avidyne is partnering up with the folks at PS Engineering to add an audio control solution for Avidyne's exciting Entegra Release 9 Integrated Avionics Suite upgrade. The Avidyne version of PS Engineering's flagship PMA8000B Audio Panel/Intercom/ Marker Beacon Receiver is designed to add special functionality when interfaced with Release 9...

Sad Accident Does Not Appear To Have Been Caused By Fuel Exhaustion

The horrific crash that claimed the lives of a pilot and passenger just seconds after takeoff from Florida's Lantana Airport, appears to have occurred just 2 and a half hours (tach time) after extensive engine repairs were undertaken... but nearly six months (calendar) before. An annual inspection had been completed on April 1st, and witnesses report that the aircraft had flown the week before.

Aero-TV: AEA's Ric Peri -- Eye On Washington (Part 1)

Unpuzzling The Regs Put Forth by The Washington Puzzle Palaces

Produced just before the FAA had a sudden and unexpected moment of good sense and killed off the current NPRM covering an aggressive Repair Station regs, AEA's Ric Peri held forth on a number of ponderous topics... Part 145 included.