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Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Monday 02.14.11

ANN Daily Touch-And-Go: 02.14.11 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 02.14.11 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature: Could AOPA Be Selling Us Out? - 02.14.11 (ANN Special Report, with CFI Bob Miller)

Aero-TV: Aspen's EA100 Adapter -- Digital Autopilot Interface

Aspen Continues To Fill In Their Expanding Product Line

I've had a ball watching the folks at Aspen take a couple of good ideas and go forth to build a serious avionics company around them... increasing their product line and market penetration with startling speed. And best of all... they show NO sign of slowing down as the continue to spool up to become a solid force in the avionics world. One of the latest additions to the Aspen line, certified last October, is the EA100 -- a product that provides a digital-to-analog data conversion capability between the EFD1000 and an aircraft’s attitude-based autopilot system.

Klyde Morris (02.14.11)

Klyde Knows It's All About The T-Shirt

FMI: www.klydemorris.com

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (02.14.11): Vapor Trail

Vapor Trail A cloudlike streamer or trail often seen behind aircraft flying in clear, cold, humid air. A vapor trail is created when the water vapor from the engine exhaust gases are added to the atmosphere. Also called a contrail, for condensation trail.

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (02.14.11)

Aero-Linx: Predator RQ-1/MQ-1/MQ-9 Reaper-UAV RQ-1 Predator is a long-endurance, medium-altitude unmanned aircraft system for surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Surveillance imagery from synthetic aperture radar, video cameras and a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) can be distributed in real-time both to the front line soldier and to the operational commander, or worldwide in real-time via satellite communication links. MQ-1, armed with AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, is the multi-role version which is used for armed reconnaissance and interdiction.

Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (02.14.11)

"This insertion of the RTTF language into the reauthorization bill will hopefully end the FAA's factually unsupported and misguided attempt to ban residential through the fence activity... We owe a great deal of thanks to Congressman Graves and Senator Wyden for helping stop the FAA illogical stance." Source: Brent Blue, organizer of www.throughthefence.org, a website dedicated to the reform of the Federal Aviation Administration's 'Through The Fence' (TTF) policies.