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Airborne 01.27.12 is chock full of info
about the week ending Friday, January 27th, 2012... Presented by
Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Ashley Hale, and
supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief
Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalists Tom Patton and
Paul Plack, this episode covers:
GAMA Wants Obama To Support GA
House and Senate Leaders Appear To Compromise On FAA
Funding
EASA Issues A380 AD
Hovering In Ground
Effect
Operating at such an altitude (usually less than one rotor
diameter above the surface) that the influence of ground effect is
realized.
Aero Linx: The American
Helicopter Museum and Education Center
The American Helicopter Museum and Education Center is the
nation's premier aviation museum devoted exclusively to
helicopters. We collect, restore and display historic aircraft and
chronicle the origin and development of rotary wing aircraft. Each
year the Museum hosts thousands of visitors, school groups,
families and senior citizens. Tourists of all ages from the U.S and
abroad come here to witness the history and the future of the
helicopter. Through our library's continually growing
collection of documents, artifacts, films, memoirs and research the
Museum serves as an important source of public information about
rotary wing aircraft. Appropriately, the Museum is
"I
think this story is very important and should be questioned and
told. The FAA must, in no way, take an anonymous phone call and
turn it into an inquisition on the pilot. A simple inquiry would
have been the best first contact. The pilot is guilty until proven
innocent, and as the letter clearly states, it's ALL on the accused
pilot. And I take that as the FAA can do anything they please to go
as far as they please to make you prove anything they demand, along
with suspending or revoking a pilot's medical until they feel the
matter is resolved, AND demanding private medical records that have
no bearing on the complaint. All this from an anonymous phone call.
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