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American and Tulsa Tech partner to train next-gen AMTs

Aviation Bussiness News

A pathway from classrooms to hangars Greg Emerson, vice president of base maintenance at American Airlines, said: “American’s Tech Ops – Tulsa maintenance base is the largest commercial aviation maintenance facility in the world and has been the backbone of our base maintenance program since 1946. ” Dr. .

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Going Commando

AV Web

My student sat at the briefing picnic table outside my t-hangar and, with a “humph,” laid out the sectional chart, the dead reckoning planning chart, and his solar/battery-powered flight computer calculator thingy. He plotted a wind triangle without using the wind side of any flight computer.

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Navigating Instrument Failure at 10,000 Feet

Fear of Landing

How I conquered malfunctioning instruments in bad weather…on a scheduled flight that should’ve never taken off! By Lola Reid Allin, author of Highway to the Sky: An Aviator’s Journey Termination of a flight exemplifies expertise, not cowardice. Gavin sniggers. “Why bother with that old-fashioned crap?”

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