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Airbus ACJneo executive aircraft awarded Chinese type certificate 

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China imposes significant restrictions on foreign-registered private aircraft, including limitations on accessing certain airports and the requirement to submit flight plans several days in advance. Doing so will allow operators more freedom of action when operating in the country.

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ForeFlight improves flight planning in latest update

iPad Pilot News

ForeFlight improves flight planning in latest update iPad Pilot News This month’s update to ForeFlight is now available and adds several new improvements and capabilities to the app. Flight planning updates The first thing to check out is the updated layout of the flight planning drawer on the maps screen.

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How to set up aircraft equipment codes in aviation apps to file VFR/IFR flight plans

iPad Pilot News

How to set up aircraft equipment codes in aviation apps to file VFR/IFR flight plans iPad Pilot News All VFR and IFR flight plans must be filed using the ICAO form. The international (ICAO) flight plan form , which is required to be used for all VFR and IFR flight plans filed in the U.S.,

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Fueling Blunders Quite Common in Safety Reporting System

Flying Magazine

Flight Planning A pilot encountered 32-35 knot headwinds at cruise. The PIC wrote, Flight planning will be better done and executed to prevent such an incident from happening again. Jet-A Blues The need to supervise fuelers is evident from this pilots experience. Fifteen minutes later, the engine failed.

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Flying Visual Approaches? Synthetic Vision Pathways Can Help

Flying Magazine

Best of all, this tip works in any Garmin glass cockpit with Synthetic Vision Pathways technology, so you can use it in anything from a G1000-equipped Cessna 172, up through Cessna business jets with the G3000 and G5000. One is flying arrivals, and the other is flying visual approaches.

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Spirit Airlines retires A319 fleet as it seeks to cut losses as bankruptcy looms  

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The plan showed that the airline would continue to operate the A319 into 2025 with a retirement plan in place that would run through the second quarter of 2025. However, with no flights planned to operate after January 8, 2025, it appears that the airline has backtracked on this plan and is now expediting the retirement process.

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Business jet flight decks

Professional Pilot

The system has been integrated successfully into numerous business jet flight decks, including Dassault Falcons EASy, Pilatus PC-24s Advanced Cockpit Environment (ACE), and Gulfstreams PlaneView and Symmetry. Key features include the SmartView SVS, INAV, and patented graphical flight planning (GFP).