Task-based Phase I ensures that every hour spent in flight testing is meaningful and is contributing to both validating the airworthiness of the aircraft and gathering the data necessary to build a detailed operating manual. This will benefit the builder in ensuring full exploration of the aircraft’s operating envelope, and it will benefit subsequent owners in having access to quality data on the aircraft. In exchange for this work, the aircraft will be released from Phase I when it is ready, not based on an arbitrary time requirement, according to EAA officials.
News
Registration opens for revamped Air Race Classic
The annual race has a twist this year, thanks to the pandemic: Teams will create their own course and race on their own.
Virtual IA renewals tops 2,500
The inaugural Virtual IA Renewal Series event in January 2021 had nearly 1,500 attendees via virtual connection. This was the largest IA Seminar ever held and included participants from all over the world, according to company officials.
Sentimental Journey offers scholarship
Deadline is May 15 for the scholarship, which is open to high school students in Pennsylvania who are interested in learning to fly.
The Wrong Stuff
A flight to impress a girl quickly goes wrong when the “calm, collected young aviator soon turned into a screaming little man filled with panic.” The good news? He saved the day and even got a second date.
New Piper service center at KAPA
KCAC Aviation, which has been a Piper dealer since 1966, has appointed Arapahoe Aero in Englewood, Colorado, as a Piper Factory Authorized Satellite Service Center for Colorado and western Kansas.
$10,000 in scholarships offered
Deadline is April 17, 2021, to apply for one of three scholarships.
Airline History Museum fighting for its life
The museum, which has been at the airport since 1986, has filed a lawsuit against Signature Flight Support, which is trying to close the museum. A petition at Change.org is asking supporters to help increase awareness of the situation.
How will having COVID-19 affect your next medical?
If you are fully recovered and weren’t admitted to the Intensive Care Unit while you were sick, all should go smoothly at your next visit to the AME. That changes if you did spend some time in the ICU or have ongoing symptoms from the virus.