The News Review:
- 1-handed pilot wins aviation award
- Buffalo NY crash puts regional airlines under microscope
- Tallahassee Residents Explore Aviation At Tallahassee’s Airfest
- NBAA Reiterates Commitment to Aviation System Modernization
1-handed pilot wins aviation award
News n 6
(AP) – A student born with only one hand has been recognized as the top pilot at the University of klahoma. Eric Gaffney was honored last month with the Department of Aviation’s Stick and Rudder Award which is presented each year to the student who demonstrates “the most readiness for flight. Gaffney whose father is an American Airlines mechanic initially feared he wouldn’t get medical clearance to fly professionally. He sought a degree in biochemistry before switching majors. He was able to get medical exemptions removed by showing he could fly solo operate cockpit controls from both seats and operate manual wing flap systems. The Broken Arrow native says flying with only one hand doubles his workload and makes him work a little faster and a little harder.
Buffalo NY crash puts regional airlines under microscope
Seattle Times
witnesses and safety officials raised questions about whether the crew of the plane that crashed killing all 49 people on board and one on the ground had been adequately vetted and whether they might have been hampered by among other factors fatigue. Training can varyIn 1997 a series of commuter crashes forced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to enact across-the-board regulations on the safety levels applying to regional carriers and major airlines. Yet more than a decade later major airlines while depending on small carriers to carry ever more passengers have no access to their contracted carriers’ training plans and are not required to ensure the training they provide is the same as what customers expect on the big brand-name airlines. And with regional planes displaying similar colors of the major airlines for which they fly the public remains largely unaware of any disparity. Tina Siniscalco whose sister Mary Abraham died in the February crash said during a break in the NTSB hearing that there is a great deal of confusion over who really operates the planes.
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Tallahassee Residents Explore Aviation At Tallahassee’s Airfest
WCTV
Airfest guest Jeffrey Shivers says “I think its a combination to see some of the older war aircraft that’s here that’s obviously no longer in productionyou don’t see much of it any of it anymore and then some of it is just putting some value to what some of these aircraft what they cost just to kind of see something you don’t see very often. All proceeds from Airfest benefit the Young Eagles Program which teaches kids about aviation and flying airplanes.
NBAA Reiterates Commitment to Aviation System Modernization
CharterX
?For years general aviation has been at forefront of our nation?s modernization effort? Bolen noted. ?At NBAA we believe that general aviation will be every bit as fundamental to America?s future as it has been to its past and we are prepared to work with the Senate to continue to build that future. ” Bolen?s testimony came before the U.