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U.S. Contends with Unprecedented Illegal Immigration

The U.S. Border Patrol credited its eyes in the sky for leading agents to more than fifty-thousand immigrants who illegally crossed the nation’s southern border during the outgoing fiscal year. The agency attributed the apprehensions of 51,248 illegal immigrants and the seizure of 2,238-pounds of narcotics directly to the strategic use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)—known colloquially as drones—over the U.S. federal fiscal year ending 30 September 2022.

Radar Monitoring The radar flight-following of aircraft, whose primary navigation is being performed by the pilot, to observe and note deviations from its authorized flight path, airway, or route. When being applied specifically to radar monitoring of instrument approaches; i.e., with precision approach radar (PAR) or radar monitoring of simultaneous ILS,RNAV and GLS approaches, it includes advice and instructions whenever an aircraft nears or exceeds the prescribed PAR safety limit or simultaneous ILS RNAV and GLS no transgression zone.

Aero Linx: The Brodhead Pietenpol Association The Brodhead Pietenpol Association is a newly reorganized (in 2017) non-profit educational corporation that grew and developed from an earlier type club for owners, pilots, builders, and aficionados of the Pietenpol Aircamper and Sky Scout. The original BPA was started in 1975 (then called the National Pietenpol Association) as a social and builder support group. It has evolved over the years and now, after four decades, has blossomed into a newly re-organized Pietenpol-focused educational organization with part of its mission now including among other activities, promoting aviation safety related to antique amateur-built aircraft, disseminating safe amat

"The FAA has taken a number of steps to address wrong surface events. But there is still a need to provide a more permanent awareness of these events, especially to general aviation pilots, who comprise 83 percent of wrong surface events. The remaining percentage is pilots operating commercially. The FAA is standardizing hot spot symbology to prevent pilot confusion regarding the meaning of or depiction of hot spots." Source: From an FAA Notice detailing how the FAA has published its new hot spot symbology, which will go into effect in the May charting cycle.