Strategic Alliance Continues To Deliver More Value For Customers

ForeFlight, creator of the essential and widely used flight planning and electronic flight bag app for Apple iPad and iPhone, today announced that Jeppesen’s world-class library of standard chart coverages are now available as an option with the current release of ForeFlight Mobile, making it the premier all-in-one mobile solution for planning, briefing, filing, flying, and logging flights across aviation.

Congressional Budget Office Proves AIRR Act Would Be A Budget Buster!

The nation's CBO says that H.R. 2997 would be costly -- as noted in the attached summary published late this week. Summary: H.R. 2997 would establish a federally chartered, not-for-profit corporation (known as the American Air Navigation Services (AANS) Corporation) to assume responsibility for operating the U.S. air traffic control system, a function currently performed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The proposed corporation would be governed by a 13-member board of directors composed of individuals representing certain aviation stakeholder groups. To finance the costs of providing air traffic services, the bill would authorize the cor

Jack's Not Happy... And For Darned Good Reason You've all heard it... various bits of hot-air from a number of elected officials trying to infer that the effort to bring about ATC Privatization has plenty of support among the entire aviation community... which plainly isn't true. EAA Boss Jack Pelton, as tired of the misinformation as the rest of us, just took aim at the GA Caucus to let them know that this simply isn't acceptable... or true. The following is a missive that Jack sent out just a few hours ago... "I feel really compelled to make sure the record is set straight on where General Aviation stands on H.R. 2997. That is why I am reaching out to all of you. The misrepresentation of our position is getting beyond frustrating...<

Several Changes Make It More Friendly To GA And Business Aviation, According To The Reason Foundation

The latest version of the House FAA reauthorization bill ... the AIRR Act ... is a significant improvement over the bill passed by the house in 2016, according to analysis from Robert W. Poole, Jr., Searle Freedom Trust Transportation Fellow and Director of Transportation Policy, for the Reason Foundation.