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| Boeing forecasts need for 2.1 million aviation professionals |
| The commercial aviation industry will need 602,000 new pilots, 610,000 new technicians, and 899,000 new cabin crew personnel globally over the next 20 years, Boeing announced July 26. The professionals will be needed to fly, maintain, and staff the cabins of different generations of aircraft, including 41,170 new jets over the next two decades, according to the company's annual hiring outlook. Many technicians will reach retirement eligible age in the next five to 10 years, and those entering the profession will need to maintain multiple generations of aircraft.
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| GA leaders provide unleaded fuel initiative update |
| AOPA President Mark Baker and fellow general aviation association executives and senior FAA leaders provided an update on the GA industry’s transition to unleaded fuel at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh. "Finding a solution has been a little bit of 'science, chemistry, art, and engineering,'" said the FAA’s Maria DiPasquantonio. "We see this as a gradual but dedicated transition," she said. Panelists made it clear that the public-private Eliminate Aviation Gasoline Lead Emissions initiative known as EAGLE supports both the Piston Aviation Fuels Initiative and supplemental type certificate paths, and that the bottom-line goal is to find the drop-in fuel that works for the entire fleet of 200,000-plus piston GA aircraft.
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| Continental seeks FAA approval for UL 91/94 in lower compression engines |
| Continental affirmed its support July 26 for current unleaded fuel alternatives as well as future unleaded fuels that could come through the FAA/industry initiative called Eliminate Aviation Gasoline Lead Emissions. Continental pledged to increase its investment in research and development by 250 percent to focus on current engines that run on avgas and Jet A, as well as "future engine designs and applications, and sustainable/alternative fuels." Its investment in current engines includes testing already available UL 91/94 in lower compression engines and seeking FAA approval for more than 100 popular models to be able to run on the unleaded fuel.
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| King Schools gives You Can Fly students a lift |
| King Schools announced that the company will support the AOPA You Can Fly High School Aviation STEM curriculum by offering discounts for students attending participating high schools. The King You Can Fly Kit includes private pilot ground school and test prep courses, as well as the pilot communication course. Normally priced at $328, the courses are offered to You Can Fly students for $99. The commercial drone pilot course, normally $129, will be available to participating high schools for $59.
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| New Textron aircraft to come with SiriusXM subscription |
| Cessna and Beechcraft aircraft will now come from the factory with a complimentary three-month SiriusXM subscription, SiriusXM announced July 20. Customers buying new, equipped aircraft from Textron Aviation will receive three months of SiriusXM’s aviation weather and information service plus the Platinum Plan of audio entertainment. SiriusXM Aviation includes high-resolution composite radar updating every 2.5 minutes, Nexrad storm cell attributes, base reflectivity radar, cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground lighting strike locations, icing NOWcast, and more.
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