Get Your Wacky Ideas In NOW!

ANN E-I-C Note: Folks... I gotta warn you... this may be one of our best year's yet... and as always... NO ONE IS SAFE. We had some fun with EVERYONE... the FAA, TSA, EAA, AOPA, Chuck Schumer, Sun 'n Fun, Brent Wouters, LightSquared, the USAF, Cessna, Cirrus, NASA, you name it. If you want to be a part of the foolishness, get your ideas and submissions into us ASAP! Time is fast ticking down to a date the entire ANN staff looks forward to every year. See, each April 1st, we have a problem getting our stories straight... we make things up, we get silly, we exaggerate and lampoon. In other words, we act weirder than the loons who run Sun 'n Fun, Cirrus, and/or the FAA... and in this group, that's really say

“Taking this step—one that could be fairly described as running roughshod over our contract—will not foster long-term success for American Airlines." Source: APA President Captain Dave Bates.

An authorization by ATC requiring pilots to submit only that information needed for the purpose of ATC. It includes only a small portion of the usual IFR flight plan information.

What Happens When Lightning Strikes An Airplane

It is estimated that on average, each airplane in the U.S. commercial fleet is struck lightly by lightning more than once each year.