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Value Added: Garmin Expands Pilot Training Classes to Include Integrated Flight Decks

Garmin is pleased to announce expanded pilot training opportunities for 2015 to include additional live classes and eLearning courses. Garmin is offering scheduled classes for the GTN 650/750 touchscreen navigator series and G500/G600 glass flight display systems, in addition to on demand classes for the G1000, G3000, and G5000 Integrated Flight Decks. These live classes…

Technically… Hinge Screw Inspection

Service Bulletin 57-4144: Wings – Aileron Hinge Screw Inspection Issued: February 2015 Compliance – Recommended: Beechcraft Corporation recommends that this Service Bulletin be accomplished at the next scheduled inspection or within 12 months, whichever occurs first. Effectivity: Airplanes Model A100-1 (U-21J) King Air; Model 200 King Air; Model 200C King Air; Model 200CT King Air;…

Value Added: Garmin Expands Pilot Training Classes to Include Integrated Flight Decks

Garmin is pleased to announce expanded pilot training opportunities for 2015 to include additional live classes and eLearning courses. Garmin is offering scheduled classes for the GTN 650/750 touchscreen navigator series and G500/G600 glass flight display systems, in addition to on demand classes for the G1000, G3000, and G5000 Integrated Flight Decks. These live classes…

Serving Those Who Served – Disabled Veterans

Serving Those Who Served – Disabled Veterans

Some 85 King Airs have flown the Disabled Veterans through Veterans Airlift Command The request from Veterans Airlift Command (VAC) was the kind that Jim Harris loves to say yes to. The organization needed him to fly the first leg of a trip that would take the wife of a wounded warrior from her home in…

Wa’did He Say? Pilot Reuirements – Hearing

Wa’did He Say? Pilot Reuirements – Hearing

Wa’did He Say? Pilot Reuirements – Hearing Of all our sense organs, it could be argued that the ear is the most complex. It consists of three distinct parts, the outer, middle and inner ear. The outer ear, also called the pinna, is the part of the ear we see sticking out from the sides…

Maintenance Tip: Aircraft Flaps – A Cold Weather Catch

Just last month, a customer called me with an AOG situation – his aircraft flaps were stuck in the down position after landing. He flies an E90 with the old style flap switches. There are plenty of 90s and 200s still flying today with these switches, which run on ramps instead of the cam type.…

Aviation Issues: Aviation Industry – Strong Supporters of Aviation Leading Prominent Committees in Congress

Aviation Issues: Aviation Industry – Strong Supporters of Aviation Leading Prominent Committees in Congress

Aviation Industry – Strong Supporters of Aviation Leading Prominent Committees in Congress As the 114th Congress got underway in January, two veteran aviation policymakers, Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), are the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I). The T&I Committee, which has jurisdiction…

Selling Walter Beech Airplanes

Selling Walter Beech Airplanes

Employing lessons learned during his years at the Travel Air Company, Walter Beech forged a chain of dealers and distributors worldwide to sell Beechcraft airplanes in the midst of the worst economic collapse in America’s history In April 1932 when Walter and Olive Ann Beech co-founded the Beech Aircraft Company, they were taking an enormous risk…

Value Added: Garmin Avionics Offers New Rebate Programs for King Air G1000 Upgrades

Garmin is pleased to announce two new rebate programs for select King Air owners and operators who choose to upgrade their Garmin avionics to the G1000 Integrated Flight Deck. The popular G1000 retrofit suite for the King Air series continues to receive exceptional response and provides operators with enhanced capabilities that minimize pilot workload, increase…