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  • A year of progress on international freedom to fly- AOPA International

      The core issues remain much the same as they were 50 years ago, when AOPA joined forces with a handful of counterparts to create an international organization representing general aviation. Onerous fees, taxes, and other costs remain a barrier to many; there remain many threats to a...

    Tags: international flying, Trike, AOPA, international pilot certificate reciprocity

  • SBs not mandatory, FAA counsel says

    August 28, 2006 AOPA SBs not mandatory, FAA counsel says The FAA lawyers have spoken: Service bulletins (SBs) are not - repeat not - mandatory for most Part 91 aircraft operators. That's exactly the decision AOPA had encouraged and expected. That had been everyone's u...

    Tags: SB, mandatory, FAA, AOPA, Service Bulletin, Airworthiness Directive, Maintenance, Required, ELSA, SLSA, Part 91, issue, aircraft

  • Free Mobile Flight Risk Evaluator- Go / No Go Decision Helper App- Includes Live weather & your experience

    Download the Air Safety Institute’s Mobile Flight Risk Evaluator to clarify the gray areas of making a go/no-go decision. By taking into account your total flying experience, including recent flight hours, how much experience in a given aircraft, weather, terrain, and runway information,...

    Tags: Go, No Go, Decision, App, Flight Risk, AOPA, runway, experience, information, helps, runway information

  • Flying is for the Birds- (Excellent article on how cool birds are)

          Proficient Pilot: Flying is for the birds VFR creatures that stay out of the clouds         January 17, 2014 By Barry Schiff      “Once you have tasted flight, y...

    Tags: Birds, Barry Schiff, AOPA, clocked, birds, pilots, flight, pilot