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Once heralded with much fanfare, the GoPro entry into the consumer drone market looked like a sure bet... until troubles with a number of the products grounded the program. Very portable and easy to fly, the Karma ran into trouble when owners reported them falling out of the sky without warning... and not just a few times. GoPro, to their credit, pulled the product from the shelves, instituted a recall, gifted former owners with a free GoPro camera (after their drones were turned in) and went back to the drawing

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Sometimes it seems like the popularity of small drones circles around the drone’s capability of providing photographic imagery but that’s not all they are used for. While at the Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas in January 2017, ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, talked with a company by the name of Drone Volt that shows us the incredible capabilities that drones provide in other industrial applications.

Klyde Has His Own Ideas As To What Was Behind FAA's Betrayal of GA

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Well... we knew this was likely... JetSuiteX has announced that they’ve entered into a ‘Standstill Agreement’ with the city of Santa Monica concerning their upcoming planned operations at KSMO. The agreement is designed to give the parties time to come to some kind of a final agreement. Originally; flights to Santa Monica Airport were supposed to launch on February 6th, with destinations like Carlsbad, San Jose and Las Vegas. Due to recent FAA betrayals, however, JetSu

Aero Linx: The British Business and General Aviation Association BBGA is as a Trade Association and through its Memorandum and Articles of Association is governed by a Council made up of senior executives from our member companies, to whom the Chief Executive, BBGA staff and Committees are responsible. In order to identify more clearly their specific activities, the association is divided into four groups. Each group has its own elected Committee responsible for formulating recommendations in accordance with their Terms of Reference of which the Chairman and at least one other member would be represented on the Council. By bringing together like minds from within the membership, BBGA is able to draw

Radar Contact Lost Used by ATC to inform a pilot that the surveillance data used to determine the aircraft’s position is no longer being received, or is no longer reliable and radar service is no longer being provided. The loss may be attributed to several factors including the aircraft merging with weather or ground clutter, the aircraft operating below radar line of sight coverage, the aircraft entering an area of poor radar return, failure of the aircraft’s equipment, or failure of the surveillance equipment.

"The Board’s actions since the entry into the Cooperation Agreement have convinced us that it is either unwilling, or unable, to manage the urgent issues Air Methods now faces. The time for incremental tweaks has long passed, and stockholder patience is exhausted. Reactive or ad hoc maneuvers, such as last year’s shotgun acquisition of Tri-State and eleventh hour Board reshuffle, won’t fly this time around. Much more sweeping changes are required, including substantial reform of the Board and strategy, and we intend to pursue them vigorously. Should the Board continue to refuse to work with us, we shall seek to elect new independent Directors at the 2017 annual meeting with the proper incentives, experience and fortitude to confront these challenges and to fait