New Instructional Aids/ Info
Infinite Flight, a mobile sim available on both IOS and Android, is now integrated with Sporty's Learn To Fly content. It provides additional scenarios.
Students complaining about hard landings? New AOPA 4.5 minute video may help them understand. Insurance claims for hard landings average $48,000.
Wrongful death lawsuit targets new CFI Timothy McKellar Jr, saying he showed 'gross negligence" training his student; CFI McKellar Jr was taking photos and posting derogatory information about his student Connor Quisenberry.
September/October FAA Safety Briefing focuses on the many facets of surface safety. Included are:
An online map showing on- and near-airport restaurants and hotels now has 398 on-airport eateries listed, another 528 within one-and-one-half miles from the airport. Good for planning dual cross-country flights.
What's it like to be an air traffic controller? This 18-minute video by Michelle Khare tells all.
AOPA Rusty Pilots seminars, excellent for recruiting new students, will be held October 5 in Elizabethtown, NC and Sebring FL On October 12, sessions will be held in Berkleley Township NJ and West Houston TX October 19 in Puyallup WA, Nashua NH and Aurora OR.
Community Aviation's "optimal learning" program at OSH this year is evaluated.
Unleaded Fuel Updates
Cessna 172 R and S models with Lycoming IO-360 L2A engines are now STC'd for Swift Fuels 100R.
GAMI G100UL AOPA test in a Baron shows no detectable performance difference from 100LL. But there were other things, pilots say.
California passes a ban on leaded avgas, starting 2031.
Technology Marches On
ERAU developing a method to use AI to teach standard aviation phraseology before live flights.
ADS-B Surveillance / Landing Fees
Florida cities, counties are preparing to impose takeoff and landing charges, other fees. It will adversely affect training in the Sunshine State.
While Florida airports are hoping to use ADS-B data to assess landing and other fees, GA interests including SAFE are opposing it. AOPA says it would be a virtual tollbooth on runways. Flight schools will be particularly hard-hit.
An AvWeb survey last month found that nearly a quarter of respondents were not worried at all by ADS-B Aviation Surveillance. Another quarter weren't worried but said monitoring is needed; while more than half said it should be closely scrutinized or banned.
Industry, Government Actions Affecting CFIs
Congressional bill threatens to cap veteran flight training benefits beginning next year. Nearly all GA organizations, including SAFE, are fighting the bill.
The annual NAFI Summit meeting will be October 15-17 in the ERAU Florida Event Center. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Susan Northrup, head of FAA Aeromedical.
Students with a history of leukemia or lymphoma can now get an FAA medical certificate, says Federal Air Surgeon Dr. Susan Northrup in this one minute video.
Large flight school CAU announced it will award continuing education credits for K-12 teachers who have completed training for the AOPA High School Aviation Curriculum.
ATC systems critically outdated, says GAO. Some systems could take more than 10 years to modernize.
FAA's Kortokrax legal interpretation of 2006 was rescinded in 2023. CFIs must now meet night currency requirements to train students at night.
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