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February 02, 2005

Lockheed Martin To Operate Automated Flight Service Stations

FAA Outsources Service In Spite Of Union Objections

The FAA announced Tuesday it has selected a team headed by Lockheed Martin to provide services now offered by the agency's automated flight service stations. The total evaluated cost of the five-year contract, with five additional option years, is $1.9 billion and represents estimated savings of $2.2 billion over the next ten years.

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AOPA: New FSS Contract Brings System Into 21st Century

From AOPA...

The Federal Aviation Administration Tuesday awarded Lockheed Martin the contract to modernize the flight service station (FSS) system, which provides pilots with the weather information they need to fly safely. According to the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the contract means that the FSS system will finally be brought into the 21st century, while reining in the cost to operate it. The FAA estimates the new contract will save the agency $2.2 billion over ten years.

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Chilling In-Flight Transcript Released On SR22 IFR Disorientation Accident

The NTSB has updated the preliminary report on the fatal crash of N889JB, a single-piloted SR22 being flown during a series of practice approaches by a relatively new instrument-rated pilot. The aircraft went down in a residential area, killing the pilot and damaging two occupied houses, with no injuries to person on the ground.

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Another Shutdown For DC Aviation

FAA To Close Airspace For State Of The Union Speech

The FAA has declared the airspace over Washington, DC, off-limits to VFR general aviation traffic for President Bush's State of the Union address on Wednesday, February 2. Like the inauguration, it has been designated a national security event, and penalties for incursions will be severe.

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Michigan Town Honors Master Pilot

Virgil Williams Wins Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award

By ANN Special Contributor Bill Barker On Monday, January 10, 2005, at the regular meeting of the Plainwell City Council, in front of his many friends and family, Virgil Williams was awarded the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award for 50 years of safe flight (he actually has 54 years of safe flight.)

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NAFI: TSA Wants Flight School Workers to be Security Trained

Members Complaining About Getting Training Materials Through TSA

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) aviation security branch officials recently assured Rusty Sachs, Executive Director of the National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) that it's not looking to pull anyone's instructors ticket. But it does insist that people who deal personally with flight students-that means all flight school employees and individual flight instructors-complete a security awareness training program. Sachs visited TSA headquarters in Washington, D.C., on January 26.

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Kalamazoo Aviation Opens New Hangar at AZO

Let's Go Parking!

Phase I and II plans to privately build aircraft hangars at the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport (KBCIA) have been completed, according to Kalamazoo Aviation President Bob Stoops and his vice president, Michael McCormick.

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PS Engineering Integrates SIRIUS Into PMA8000-SR

Jammin' At Altitude

PS Engineering is making big changes to what was once an often-ignored part of the avionics suite, the audio selector panel. Building on the strength of 20 years of innovative designs, the PMA8000-SR makes a paradigm shift of SIRIUS proportions.

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North Dakota TFR: 02.03.05

NOTAM: 5/0914 Issued: 02/01/2005 16:00 Effective: 02/03/2005 16:45 - 02/03/2005 19:35 State: ND Facility: ZMP - MINNEAPOLIS (ARTCC),MN. Type: VIP Description: FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, FEBRUARY 3 2005 LOCAL.

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Washington, DC TFR: 02.03.05

NOTAM:  5/0939  Issued:  02/01/2005 22:30  Effective:  02/03/2005 00:00 - 02/03/2005 04:00  State:  DC  Facility:  ZDC - WASHINGTON (ARTCC),DC.  Type:  SECURITY  Description:  WASHINGTON, DC, FEBRUARY 2, 2005 LOCAL. PURSUANT TO TITLE 14, CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS, SECTIONS 91.141 AND 99.7 SPECIAL SEC 

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Nebraska TFR: 02.04.05

NOTAM: 5/0932 Issued: 02/01/2005 20:20 Effective: 02/04/2005 03:00 - 02/04/2005 16:50 State: NE Facility: ZMP - MINNEAPOLIS (ARTCC),MN. Type: VIP Description: OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FEBRUARY 3-4 2005 LOCAL.

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Montana TFR: 02.03.05 - 02.04.05

NOTAM: 5/0911 Issued: 02/01/2005 15:30 Effective: 02/03/2005 20:30 - 02/04/2005 01:45 State: MT Facility: ZLC - SALT LAKE CITY (ARTCC),UT. Type: VIP Description: GREAT FALLS, MONTANA FEBRUARY 3 2005 LOCAL.

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