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April 04, 2019

Lightspeed Aviation Foundation Teams With EAA’s Ray Aviation Scholarship Program

Zulu 3 Headsets Presented To Scholarship Recipients During Flight Training

The Lightspeed Aviation Foundation is recognizing the accomplishments of young aviators who are EAA Ray Aviation Scholarship recipients, by awarding a Lightspeed Zulu 3 headset to each recipient on the path to successfully completing flight training.

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NTSB Releases Preliminary Report From Winter Haven, FL Accident

Airplane Impacted A House Shortly After Takeoff, Instructor Pilot Fatally Injured

The NTSB has released its preliminary report from an accident which occurred February 23 in Winter Haven, FL. The commercially-rated instructor pilot was fatally injured when the airplane, a STOL Aircraft Corp UC-1 amphibious airplane, impacted a house shortly after takeoff from Winter Haven Regional Airport (KGIF), Winter Haven, FL. A commercially-rated pilot who was receiving instruction in the airplane sustained minor injuries.

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Opener Names Ben Diachun President

Established Aerospace Executive Climbs Aboard To Bring Blackfly To Market

Opener, a California-based company developing aerial vehicles for consumer travel, has appointed aerospace industry veteran and innovator, Ben Diachun to the senior leadership team as president. Diachun is coming to Opener from Scaled Composites, the aerospace company that worked with the late Paul Allen to design and fly SpaceShipOne, an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft.  Mr. Diachun will report to Marcus Leng, Opener founder and CEO, and inventor of BlackFly, the world’s first all-electric fixed-wing personal ultralight vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicle.

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Garmin Demonstrates Datalink Weather Broadcast For Pilots In Germany

Offers Datalink Weather For Appropriately Equipped Aircraft Flying In And Around Friedrichshafen

Garmin has announced the availability of datalink weather broadcast through a technology demonstration in Friedrichshafen, Germany (EDNY). Using a ground-based Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) that is comprised of Garmin hardware at the EDNY airport, weather information is broadcast and received by aircraft equipped with select Garmin ADS-B In products and displayed on Garmin avionics and portables. For appropriately equipped aircraft, there is no additional cost to receive weather information during this evaluation period, which is expected to end in Q4 of 2019.

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FAA Issues Policy For ADS-B Compliance

Non-Equipped Aircraft Will Be Considered For Clearances On A Case-By-Case Basis, But It Won't Be Easy    

The FAA has placed a notice in the Federal Register regarding its policy for issuing air traffic control (ATC) authorizations to persons seeking to operate aircraft that are not equipped with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Out equipment in ADS-B airspace after Jan. 1, 2020.

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Piper Aircraft Receives Another Record-Breaking Fleet Contract

L3 Commercial Aviation Places 240-Airplane Order

Piper Aircraft announced at Sun 'n Fun on Tuesday that L3 Commercial Aviation has placed an order for up to 240 new Piper aircraft options to expand and modernize its aircraft training fleet across its Airline Academy pilot training sites. The new fleet will support the growing demand for its cadet pilot programs in light of the global shortage of pilots. This is the largest civilian fleet order received in company history and comes on the heels of a similar deal announced in 2018 for 152 aircraft from Fanmei Aviation Technologies.

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Sling Pilot Academy Formed To Meet Challenges Of 21st Century Aviation Industry

Next-Generation Pilot Academy Preps For Future With Next-Generation Fleet/Training Approach

Today’s news cycle is filled with stories about the need for properly trained pilots to meet an increasing demand that shows little signs of slowing -- and every sign of not only greater demand, but a requirement for even greater skills from new pilots entering the industry.

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