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| GPS jamming expected in Southeast during military exercises |
| GPS reception may be unavailable or unreliable over a large portion of the southeastern states and the Caribbean during offshore military exercises scheduled between January 16 and 24. Navigation guidance, ADS-B, and other services associated with GPS could be affected for up to 400 nautical miles at Flight Level 400, down to a radius of 180 nm at 50 feet above the ground.
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| AOPA scholarships now open |
| More than 100 AOPA flight training scholarship opportunities are available to high school students, teachers, primary flight training students, and pilots pursuing advanced ratings or certificates. Make sure your flight school customers are aware of these scholarships by passing along the information.
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| Fly This Sim customers complain of delivery delays |
| An Ohio flying club has filed a police report and asked the state attorney general to investigate FlyThisSim, a company that builds and sells flight simulators. The club says it paid $13,000 for a simulator in January 2019, and claims the company has fallen months behind promised delivery dates and is unresponsive to phone calls, emails, and letters.
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| PilotWeb notam site to shut down Jan. 24 |
| On January 24, the sun will set on the FAA’s old PilotWeb notam system. Users of the FAA's website will be directed to the more efficient and user-friendly notam search webpage—that is, those pilots who have not yet found their way to the site, which is already active
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| Airspace restrictions planned for State of the Union address |
| The FAA has announced additional flight restrictions that will be in effect in the Washington, D.C., area February 4 between 8 and 11 p.m. Eastern time for President Trump’s State of the Union address. VFR traffic pattern operations at airports within the Special Flight Rules Area will be suspended during the window.
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| Utah flight school employee charged with theft of more than $200,000 |
| Police in Woods Cross, Utah, charged the administrative manager of FLT Academy with second-degree felony accounts of theft by deception, communications fraud, and pattern of activity. Shawnn Marie Puntasecca allegedly collected students' tuition payments and kept the funds by creating a Venmo account that appear to be the flight school's, but was connected to her credit union. Police say she stole $221,000, according to Fox13Now.com in Salt Lake City.
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