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Newest vaccine approved for pilots

By General Aviation News Staff · March 3, 2021 ·

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Pilots who get the Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine must wait 48 hour before flying.

A cross-country flight in the midst of a pandemic

By General Aviation News Staff · June 4, 2020 ·

I thought my cross-country trip give controllers something to do. Boy was I wrong!

Scared to talk to controllers?

By General Aviation News Staff · May 11, 2020 ·

A free webinar will teach you what controller expect from pilots, as well as some tips for how to talk to ATC.

Modernize ATC, don’t privatize

By General Aviation News Staff · September 27, 2019 ·

Privatizing Air Traffic Control “could have devastating consequences to small and rural airports.”

ATC safety conference to be live-streamed

By General Aviation News Staff · September 13, 2019 ·

Topics include training, weather, controller/pilot communications, runway safety, UAS, and more.

FAA breaks ground on new tower at KGSO

By General Aviation News Staff · June 5, 2019 ·

The new tower also will house TRACON controllers who handle airspace within a 60-mile radius of the airport, including 20 general aviation airports.

Air traffic controllers warn government shutdown could cripple National Airspace System

By General Aviation News Staff · January 24, 2019 ·

“In our risk averse industry, we cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play, nor predict the point at which the entire system will break. It is unprecedented.”

Aviation hit hardest by government shutdown

By General Aviation News Staff · January 16, 2019 ·

Aviation is one of the industries hardest hit by the ongoing government shutdown.

The brave new world of ATC

By Dan Johnson · January 14, 2019 ·

As more drones fill the skies, big changes will need to happen to ATC.

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