OF PARTICUAR INTEREST TO PILOTS
- AOPA Safety Foundation Meeting – Top 5 Mistakes Pilots Make
Monday January 14, 2008
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Mesa Convention Center – Building
263 N. Center Street
Mesa, Arizona
- Accident
Reports – See what accidents have occurred over the past 25 years at
your home airport or at a destination airport of your choosing. Includes the NTSB Reports on the
Accidents.
- Airport Range
– Go to the “Radius Search” See what
airports are within a chosen range (350 NM limit) from a chosen
airport. Includes: NM range and
True course. Printable items
include: Kneeboard format; Airport Diagram; FBO Facility/Fuel Information;
US Terminal Procedures; ASF Accident reports at the airport.
- Beware
oxygenated fuel in planes burning auto gas.
- FAA
IMPROVES NOTAM SYSTEM, LOCAL NOTAMS NOW ONLINE
Pilots will soon be
able to get all notams for a given flight from electronic sources, thanks
to a change in the status of "local" notams. Beginning Jan. 28,
2008, all new local, or L, notams will be reclassified as D notams and
added to the national notam system. In addition, each new D notam will be
preceded by a keyword that indicates the area affected, such as navigation
lighting, runway, ramp, or airspace. That means for the first time pilots
will be able to get all relevant notams, including those that affect only
their destination airport, without calling flight service. Read more on AOPA Online.
- AOPA Close to Home ~
PILOTS: PREPARE FOR SUPER BOWL AIRSPACE RESTRICTIONS
Airports in the Phoenix
area are already preparing for the increased traffic that Super Bowl XLII will
bring. But pilots need to do their part to prepare as well. The FAA has issued a notam
establishing a temporary flight restriction (TFR) around Phoenix for the
Super Bowl on Feb. 3. It is scheduled to be in effect from 3 p.m. until
10:30 p.m. local. Although AOPA argued against the overly large
restriction, the government insisted on a 30-nautical-mile-radius TFR with
a 10-nm-radius inner no-fly zone. Read more on AOPA
Online.