ANN Special Report: News/Analysis/Opinion By ANN Staff E-I-C Note: Many years ago, one of the FAA's core mandates was to promote aviation... which some law-makers sought to strike down because they expected that it would minimize the FAA's safety mandate...
Aero Linx: The 1-26 Association The 1-26 Association is formed for the purpose of stimulating interest in, and promoting the sport of soaring in the Schweizer 1-26 sailplane; to establish standards for competition in the 1-26; to establish categories for...
Interrogator The ground-based surveillance radar beacon transmitter-receiver, which normally scans in synchronism with a primary radar, transmitting discrete radio signals which repetitiously request all transponders on the mode being used to reply. The replies received are mixed with the primary...
North Atlantic High Level Airspace (NAT HLA) That volume of airspace (as defined in ICAO Document 7030) between FL 285 and FL 420 within the Oceanic Control Areas of Bodo Oceanic, Gander Oceanic, New York Oceanic East, Reykjavik, Santa Maria,...