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October 27, 2009

ANN Special Feature: FAA Chief Randy Babbitt at NBAA - 10.27.09

FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt tells attendees at NBAA 2009 that Safety Management Systems and professionalism can make corporate aviation, one of aviation's safest segments, even safer.

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Aero-TV: Opening Sessions At NBAA 2009 -- Part 2, Rich Karlgaard

Business Aviation Comes Together In Orlando, FL

With the end of the 2009 NBAA Convention, the BizAv community has had a chance to take stock of the year that has passed and evaluate their future prospects. While attendance and participation were obviously at lower levels than in year's past, the community showed that it is willing to do what it must to survive, and is seeking new opportunities and business venues as aggressive as the current economic climate allows.

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Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Tuesday 10.27.09

ANN Daily Touch-And-Go: 10.27.09 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 10.27.09 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature: FAA Chief Randy Babbitt at NBAA - 10.27.09 (ANN Special Report, with FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt)

"Our first initiative is to win the KC-45 tanker, our first lesson is Geography -- Mobile, Alabama and the Gulf Coast States are part of the U.S. and our jobs are American." Source: Alabama Governor Bob Riley (R).

Flight in which a cloud ceiling exists but modified visual flight rules are in effect if the aircraft travels above the cloud layer.

A Brief History Of Flight Simulation

Several stories today deal with flight simulators, which have become to sophisticated that even the sims available for home computers are pretty realistic. It got us thinking about how flight simulation worked in the days before there were all these electronics. "A Brief History Of Flight Simulation" has some interesting insight.