FAA reserve fuel requirements are for preflight planning
purposes only, and are barely adequate to assure a modicum of
safety if things don't go precisely as planned.
There’s no getting away from GPS and we wouldn’t want
to. Just jump in and learn about it, the innovations, the
improvements, the future and what it means to those who fly.
"What did we learn in flight test? What did we learn in the
mishap? Those will go into the calculation of what comes
next."
Source: Bob Ellithorpe, executive director of
vertical unmanned aircraft programs at Bell Helicopter, on the
company's plans to continue development of its UAV technology in
the wake of last month's loss of its TR-918 Eagle Eye tiltrotor UAV
prototype.
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