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- Group faults FAA for funding low-priority airports
A watchdog group says the FAA awarded some $272 million in stimulus funds to airport projects that failed to achieve priority status on the agency's own scale. According to the Subsidyscope report, many airports received funds despite scoring below 62 on the FAA's 100-point priority scale, which takes into account such factors as an airport's size and a project's effect on system capacity. But an FAA spokeswoman said safety and security issues could trump an airport's otherwise low priority score. "Just because something came in under [62] doesn't mean it's disqualified," she said. The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model)
(10/7)      
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To learn more about the other side of the stimulus debate, click here to read an article from AOPA Pilot Magazine.
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- Very light jet industry has yet to live up to hype
Despite hype and clever marketing as being "revolutionary," the very light jet industry has not turned out to represent much more than an industry of subcompact business jets, according to an industry source. One argument for the hype is that VLJ companies had to communicate excitement in order to get investors, but the jets are nothing more than a downward market extension, just as business jets are getting bigger at the other end of the spectrum, the source argues. The Weekly of Business Aviation
(10/5)
- Column: Don't delay improvements to Grove Field
Safety improvements should be made without delay at Washington's Grove Field with the help of federal funds, according to this column by Liz Pike, a former member of the City Council in Camas, Wash. The FAA would pay nearly all of the costs and return $3 million to the area, giving more reason for taxpayers to back the effort, Pike argues. Camas-Washougal Post-Record (Wash.)
(10/6)
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- House bill seeks to limit TSA emergency rule making
Five House lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have introduced legislation that would require the TSA to follow normal rule-making procedures in all but the most extreme circumstances. TSA could still issue emergency directives in situations deemed to pose an imminent threat, but regulations enforced for more than 180 days would then be subject to rule-making procedures. All five co-sponsors of the legislation are members of the General Aviation Caucus in the House. AVweb
(10/6)
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Proposed San Carlos school too close to airport, AOPA says
The California Department of Education should consider alternatives to a proposed public charter high school close to San Carlos Airport, AOPA told the agency Oct. 1. Local AOPA members alerted the association to the proposed school, which would be 1.5 miles off the end of Runway 30. AOPA has historically contended that schools should not be within two miles of an airport. Read more.
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The "Amelia" movie's airplane
When Joe Shepherd of Fayetteville, Ga., traded a Cessna 195 for a Lockheed 12A Electra Junior in 1988, he never thought that he'd spend the next 18 years restoring the airplane. He certainly never expected to find himself sweating in its cockpit on a hot summer day, wearing a wig and scarf intended to make him look -- from a distance -- like Amelia Earhart. Read more.
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