Declared Emergency But Passed Up Smaller Airport For One With
Better MX Options
Second-guessing any pilot's decision making process is a tough
gig... but this is a case where a pilot may have not have been
quite cautious enough in selecting a location for an emergency
landing. According to the NTSB, the pilot of a Malbu Mirage was
being vectored to a small airport by ATC after declaring an
emergency due to power issues, but thereafter decided to divert to
a larger field with better facilities and the availability of a
mechanic. The subsequent landing at Greenwood Le-Fore Airport did
not go so well and the aircraft was significantly damaged though
both occupants were uninjured.
Iridium-Based Flight Tracker Offers Added Safety And
Utility
It's a novel and intriguing program... Nearly real-time tracking
for your aircraft... available 24/7 to those who need to know where
you are... in good times and bad. Spidertracks sends your
location in real-time from the spider in your aircraft through the
Iridium satellite network, and displays the track of your flight on
the Aviator website. Should the worst happen and you have an
accident, Spidertracks will automatically send out SOS alerts to
the people you have allowed/selected.
A Novel Attempt To Improve The Flight Training Experience
Many people have been putting some serious brain power to work
in order to conceive of ideas that might help to improve, even
revolutionize, the flight training experience. One of the resulting
efforts is called Flyvie. Using video recording technology, in
concert with specialized software and GPS positioning, Flyvie
offers some intriguing possibilities to make the flight training
experience more valuable... in retrospect.
Aero-TV's "Three Hours of Non-Stop Aero-Geekery" at AEA 2011
Turned Out GREAT
The INTENSE programming involved in documenting 32 separate New
Product Introductions at each year's AEA Convention and Tradeshow
are one of the most trying times in our year... but also the most
fun. Working in concert, once again, with the talented staff of the
Aircraft electronics Association, ANN and Aero-TV documented over
30 rapid-fire new product presentation for live webcast and has now
broken each of them down into the shorter, separate segments so
that viewers with specific interest can get to the product that
most interests them... right away.
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