Also: SNC Lawsuit, LHFE Warbird Fight, CFM56 Record, Gov Visits Kestrel, L-39 Crash Fallout, Gary Powers' Silver Star... and MORE!
OK, we keep saying it was a wild week... and we haven't been lying -- but it seems that there is no end in sight to real honest-to-goodness Aero-News.... we just wish it was always GOOD Aero-News. As ANN was putting this episode of Airborne to bed, ANN received some interesting inside info that asserts that Cessna may make a play for bankrupt HBC--interested mostly in the King-Air line.
Also; the Air Force has confirmed an accident involving a CV-22 at Eglin AFB--thankfully with no fatalities but there were fi
Aero Linx: National Aircraft Finance Association
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Minimum En Route IFR Altitude (MEA)
The lowest published altitude between radio fixes which assures acceptable navigational signal coverage and meets obstacle clearance requirements between those fixes. The MEA prescribed for a Federal airway or segment thereof, area navigation low or high route, or other direct route applies to the entire width of the airway, segment, or route between the radio fixes defining the airway, segment, or route.
"This bill would create a process, which would be new, that could result in the federal government [not] being able to pursue enforcement actions because of limited resources... This bill would stand the FAA's enforcement structure on its head, and as a result I object."
Source: Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), in his objections to Senator Jim Inhofe's Pilot's Bill of Rights. Obviously (in the opinion of ANN), Rockefeller is not aware of the many problems inherent in how the FAA deals with Pilots... or simply doesn't care.
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