LANSING ? Western Michigan University and four Michigan community colleges today signed plans to explore collaboration among their aviation programs.Universities unite to improve aviation education (Battle Creek Enquirer)
The government is moving too slowly to install warning technology that could prevent catastrophic collisions, the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.Lagging Technology Effort Is [...]

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Health 24 – Pilots are usually not under the guidance of the region?s Air Traffic Control, but this depends on the area in which they operate. They are not required to file flight plans, but generally have transponders, devices that make them visible on radar …Manhattan?s crowded airspace
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Information display

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General aviation ramp, taken from the Austin airport Control Tower

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The very dark TRACON radar control room inside the Austin airport Control Tower.
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Fort Pierce Tribune – The county is clarifying the airport’s boundaries and, in establishing uses for it, wants to bring in businesses that aren’t “airspace intensive” or those that would keep flights at a minimum. Airport land use plans typically feature aeronautical …A bigger airport with less Air Traffic for Stuart?
OUT action by Air Traffic [...]

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Port2PortCivil Aviation Authority: Israeli air carriers operate 53 aircraftPort2Port, Israel – Mar 20, 2007Figures published last week by the Israeli Civil Aviation Authority shows that at the end of January 2006 the five Israeli air carriers: El Al, Sundor, …Civil Aviation Authority: Israeli air carriers operate 53 aircraft – Port2Port
Ottery’s sickly smell ‘a mysteryDevon 24, [...]

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