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NEWS
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| Examiners urged to give more checkrides to cut down backlog |
| Flight training organizations are appealing the FAA’s 950 designated pilot examiners to take on more work this spring to ease a practical test bottleneck that has become a serious concern. The backlog is affecting the pilot production pipeline nationwide, according to Bob Rockmaker, president of the Flight School Association of North America.
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| Georgia flight school shuts down; coronavirus cited as connection |
| Falcon Aviation Academy shut down its location at Newnan Coweta County Airport in Atlanta last week, the Newnan Times-Herald reported. The newspaper stated on its Facebook page that the shutdown "appears to be connected to the outbreak of the coronavirus in China." Falcon Aviation Academy trained Chinese aviation students at three locations in Georgia. Employees of the flight school said they were given no advance notice of the closure. No one answered the telephone at the flight school on March 2.
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| Piston trainer surge lifted GA market |
| Demand for piston trainers drove deliveries to numbers not seen in a decade, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association announced February 19. Business jet sales also soared to a 10-year high. The good news offset declines in turboprop and helicopter sales.
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| CFI sets longest-distance aircraft 'wheelie' |
| A Virginia flight instructor kept the nosewheel of a Cessna 172 off the ground after landing long enough to set a Guinness World Record. Christopher Freeze touched down at a Southern California airport and kept rolling 14,319 feet.
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