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Aviation safety expert tapped for NTSB

President Barack Obama announced June 24 that he will nominate veteran pilot and aviation safety expert Christopher A. Hart to be a member of the National Transportation Safety Board.

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IFR Insights: Regulations

The regulations may be black and white, but instrument flight is a world of grays. In this course, you’ll learn what it takes to stay safe while staying on the FAA’s good side (approx. 45-60 minutes).

Real Pilot Stories

Each Real Pilot Story is a true account of a good flight gone bad. Listen to pilots who really have “been there, done that” (and survived) tell their harrowing tales in hopes of helping the rest of us become better pilots. All presentations contain audio. In order to view the presentations, a Flash plug-in is required.

Landsberg to advise on weather issues

AOPA Air Safety Foundation President Bruce Landsberg is participating in a working group to advise the government on how to transform the way weather information is managed for NextGen.

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Whirly Girls accepting applications for training scholarships

whirly The Whirly Girls, a nonprofit organization of international female helicopter pilots, is accepting applications for its 2010 scholarships. Whirly Girls members in good standing for at least one year prior to the application deadline are eligible for several scholarships this year.

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Cessna to offer CFI Safety Stand Down

Cessna Aircraft Company is offering a new series of courses aimed at CFI safety it is calling a CFI Safety Stand Down.

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Thunderstorms: a deadly weather condition

Thunderstorm The Air France Airbus that crashed earlier this week may have been a victim of one of aviation’s most dangerous weather conditions. Flight 447 was known to have been flying through heavy thunderstorms and turbulence when it disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean en route to Paris from Brazil.

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An uncontrollable urge to fly

Golden years After a hiatus of nearly seven decades, Lt. Col. Maury Marler is back at the controls as pilot in command. “I just got an uncontrollable urge to start flying again,” Marler said. After checking one flight school that wanted nothing to do with the then-90-year-old pilot because of his age, he found an instructor who encouraged him.

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Let’s all go!

kids in the airplane If flying is the second greatest thrill known to man (landing being the first), then flying with a loving spouse and the kids must be No. 3. Using an airplane for its designed purpose--to get from point A to point B--with the entire family is a joy that ground-pounders can't comprehend and aren't lucky enough to experience.

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Like father, like son

randall and ellis colthorpe Randall Colthorpe flies Norfolk Southern Railroad executives all over the East Coast. He has been a flight instructor for many years and administers biennial flight reviews. His most recent aviation challenge lies closer to home. In home, actually. Colthorpe is teaching his 17-year-old son Ellis to fly.

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N.C. flight school booming

2009 class at Lenoir Community College's Aviation Management & Career Pilot Technology Department Even in these tough economic times, the Aviation Management and Career Pilot Technology Program at Lenoir Community College in Kinston, N.C., is growing.

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