Volunteer aviators transport Special Olympics athletes | Collins' Pro Line panel upgrade reduces pilot workload | N.D. airport to accrue energy savings with LED beacon
Owners and operators of Cessna Citation, Hawker, Beechcraft King Air, Beechcraft Premier and Beechcraft Beechjet aircraft volunteered to fly more than 800 athletes and coaches to Orlando, Fla., for the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games. For the eighth time, the Special Olympics Airlift was organized by Textron Aviation, with this year's endeavor chaired by Peyton Manning.
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Elliott Aviation has selected Collins Aerospace Pro Line 21 for panel retrofits on Cessna Citations and other aircraft. Pro Line upgrades feature forward touchscreens and reduced pilot workload.
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Mandan Regional Airport in Bismarck, N.D., has added an LED rotating beacon with a life span of 50,000 hours and a bulb that will only need to be replaced every 10 to 12 years. The beacon, only the second of its kind in the state, will reduce electricity costs by 65% annually.
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AOPA Opinion Leaders blogger and polar circumnavigator Robert DeLaurentis unearthed his 31-year-old journals written while serving in the US Navy during the Persian Gulf War and was shocked to find an entry revealing his wish to become a pilot and fly around the world, as he ended up doing for nine months in 2019 and 2020. DeLaurentis discusses the power of manifesting the lives we want and urges aviators to "be open to what is available to us, take chances, and have faith along the way — maybe even a dose of courage in the midst of the chaos that can sometimes surround us."
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Students at Wisconsin Dells High School in Wisconsin Dells, Wis., now have access to an interactive flight simulator with three monitors, thanks to a donation from the Baraboo-Dells Airport chapter of Students in Aviation, a nonprofit that offers free Federal Aviation Administration-approved flight training. "The goal is hopefully for students who use the simulator here (at the high school) that have an interest can come to us to extend further on that," said Students in Aviation's Anastasia Eisen.
The Bahamas has indefinitely postponed its new Click2Clear customs entry and departure program for private pilots and passengers. The AOPA Air Safety Institute's Early Analysis N76075 makes a preliminary assessment of the crash of a Cessna 140 during a short takeoff and landing event in Wayne, Neb. Give Pilot Briefing five minutes and we'll catch you up on the aviation news you need to know for the week. Listen to the podcast.
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