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Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Wednesday 08.09.06

ANN Daily Touch-And-Go: 08.09.06 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 08.09.06 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature: AOPA's Gary Crump on Flying While Taking Anti-Depressants 08.09.06 (ANN Special Feature, with AOPA's Gary Crump)

ANN Readers: Oshkosh 2006 Feedback Needed!

Got A Few Things To Say About Oshkosh 2006? Tell Us!

The ANN Editorial Team is working hard on all the summaries we can assemble about the most recent Oshkosh EAA Fly-In. As is our custom, we're taking a few days to consider things carefully (as well as to recover from the "Big O') and are assembling a few articles and awards lists that quantify and qualify the very best and worst of the Oshkosh 2006 experience.

ANN's Daily Aero-Tips (08.09.06): Touch And Go's

Aero-Tips!

Question for the day: are touch-and-go landings truly instructional, and are they worth the risk?

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (08.09.06)

Aero-Linx!

Presented by the Flight Safety Foundation, this Aviation Safety Network has safety statistics by period of time, flight phase, nature or type passenger, cargo etc).

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (08.09.06): MDA

Aero-Terms!

Minimum Descent Altitude -- The lowest altitude, expressed in feet above mean sea level to which descent is authorized on final approach or during circle-to-land maneuvering in execution of a standard instrument approach procedure where no electronic glideslope is provided.

Aero-News Quote Of The Day (08.09.06)

"...particular concern to the Safety Board is that a qualified 14 CFR Part 135 captain and first officer, both of whom received winter weather operations training in accordance with the company's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-approved winter operations procedures, could fail to understand the insidious nature of upper wing surface contamination and its threat to the safety of the flight. Further, proper CRM could have helped the crew identify the risks associated with winter weather operations."

Source: From NTSB's Safety Recommendation A-06-42, filed after looking into the fatal 2004 Montrose CL-600 crash that resulted, in part, due to icing issues at takeoff.