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The airline industry is suffering from “automation addiction,” Rory Kay, co-chair of an FAA committee that is examining pilot training, said in an Associated Press story published on Tuesday. “We’re seeing a new breed of accident with these state-of-the-art planes,” said Kay. “We’re forgetting how to fly.” Pilot skills have been cited by investigators in two recent major accidents, the Buffalo crash of a regional jet in 2009, and the 2009 Air France crash of an Airbus A330. How pilots respond to the sudden loss of automated aircraft systems “is the big issue that we can no longer hide from in aviation,” Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, told the AP. “We’ve been very slow to recognize the consequence of it and deal with it.”

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Aviation type clubs will soon have a cost-free method for sharing service and maintenance information among their members. Continue Reading »

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Two men have been charged with residential burglary and theft of property after being spotted by a homeowner who saw the men taking items from his house while he was flying as a first time passenger in a 1957 Cessna 172. The flight was daytime VFR out and back from Arkansas to Memphis. On the return portion of the trip, passenger Steven Lynn asked his friend, pilot David Hudson, if they could fly over Lynn’s house so that he could see it from the airplane. They found the house and saw what appeared to be two men taking things from the home and loading them in a vehicle. Lynn took action.

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