No Fatalities When Student Pilot Reported Airspeed Indicator
Problem, Overshot Runway On Landing
The student pilot flying a Cessna 172 did the right thing when
he requested a return to Santa Monica airport (KSMO) after
reporting an airspeed indicator malfunction, but was unable to
execute a successful go-around when he ran out of runway after
flying a traffic pattern that was too tight. Fortunately, no one
was fatally injured in the accident, but the accident broke the
pilot's leg, and two people painting a house sustained minor
injuries when the plane went down.
Announced at Oshkosh, aviation synthetic vision is now available
on the iPad. Hilton Software boasted of the addition of Synthetic
Vision to its flagship WingX Pro7 for iPad product -- an addition
that depicts 3D terrain using its high-resolution terrain database,
obstacles using a comprehensive obstacle database, and airport
runways.
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), a member of the Senate General
Aviation Caucus and certified flight instructor with more than
10,000 flight hours, sent a letter Thursday to Chairman John
Rockefeller (D-WV) and Ranking Member Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX)
of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee
requesting a hearing and markup of S. 1335, the Pilot’s Bill
of Rights Act. Inhofe introduced this legislation in July and
currently has 33 cosponsors, 13 of which are members of the
committee.
Some See The Attempt As A Payback To A Democratic Donor
Before he was scheduled to testify before a Congressional
oversight committee, General William Shelton, who leads the Air
Force Space Command, says he was asked by the White House to change
his testimony to make it more sympathetic to a company trying to
place a nationwide wireless broadband service on frequencies
adjacent to the GPS spectrum.
Application Packets Due At Local FSDOs By September 30th
The deadline for applications for the 2012 General Aviation
Awards Program (GAAP) is September 30, 2011. Begun in 1963, the GA
Awards program has evolved into a joint program between the
aviation industry and the FAA to recognize excellence in four
categories: Certificated Flight Instructor of the Year, Aviation
Maintenance Technician of the Year, FAASTeam Representative of the
Year, and Avionics Technician of the Year.
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