Randy, a commercial pilot in Massachusetts, writes: What’s up with these morons who keep busting Presidential TFRs? It seems like I read about this happening way too often. And then it always gets played up in the general media and it makes the rest of us pilots look bad!
FAA
FAA funding extended through March 2024
The extension is necessary as the Senate has yet to take up FAA reauthorization.
Still have questions about MOSAIC?
The webinar will focus on the maintenance of Light-Sport Aircraft (LSA) and “how the proposed changes to the LSA regulations may affect the operations and maintenance of these aircraft,” FAA officials noted.
12 Days of Drones
The FAA is launching a new safety campaign, 12 Days of Drones, to educate people who are giving — and receiving — drones during the upcoming holiday season.
The pilot population is getting younger
The average age of a pilot who holds a medical certificate is 39.6 years.
FAA extends comment period on controversial Piper AD
The FAA has extended the comment period on a “controversial” Airworthiness Directive (AD) that would require replacing the rudders on close to 31,000 Piper aircraft.
How — or why — did the FAA let remote towers die?
We’ve run a lot of stories over the years about the remote tower experiments at Leesburg Executive Airport (KJYO) in Virginia and Northern Colorado Regional Airport (KFNL) in Loveland, Colorado. Why didn’t they work when similar projects have met with great success in Europe?
A cure for an unnecessary headache
Install two cameras and call me in the morning.
Record number of Master Pilots honored
EAA Chapter 983 at Pecan Plantation Airpark (0TX1) in Texas just set a record: 31 of its members received Master Pilot Awards at a ceremony Nov. 11, 2023, while another received the Charles Taylor Master Mechanic Award.