Touch Trainer Available at Banyan Pilot Shop

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Banyan Pilot Shop now offers the FlyThisSim’s Touch Trainer, an FAA Basic Aviation Training Device (BATD) that accurately simulates performance on Cirrus, Cessna, Beechcraft, and Diamond aircraft. 

This simulator is used by individual pilots and flight schools to keep current on aircraft specific instrument and procedure training. High resolution graphics combined with touch screen technology and switches, buttons and knobs that function like the aircraft, make this simulator an enhanced training experience.  

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Sun Air Jets Renews ACSF Industry Audit Standard Registration

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The Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF) is pleased to announce that Sun Air Jets, Camarillo, CA has renewed its status on the ACSF Industry Audit Standard (IAS) Registry.

“This is Sun Air Jets’ third ACSF audit,” said ACSF president Bryan Burns. “They have once again demonstrated their continued commitment to high standards by renewing their status on the IAS Registry.”
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RocketRoute Supports the Daedalus D-Day 70th Anniversary and Memorial Airborne Invasion

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ACUKWIK partner RocketRoute is proud to sponsor and assist flight crews in the Daedalus D-Day 70th Commemoration.

For the first time since D-Day, a formation of up to 10 Dakota aircraft will depart from the UK (Daedalus Aerodrome, Lee-on-Solent) and fly to France, Carentan, Normandy and undertake a mass drop over 100 “round canopy” parachutists wearing WW2 uniforms.

This will be the first time since D-Day that an ‘airborne invasion formation’ will have taken place from the UK to France.

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Signature Flight Support Licenses Blue Heron Aviation Ltd’s New FBO in the Turks and Caicos Islands

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Signature Flight Support, a BBA Aviation company, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Blue Heron Aviation Ltd. (“Blue Heron”) of the Turks and Caicos Islands to license Blue Heron’s new Fixed Base Operation, which is under construction at Providenciales International Airport (MBPV).
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Quintessentially Aviation Handling Celebrates New Terminal Facility

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Quintessentially Aviation Handling, the newest member to join the Air Elite Network, celebrates the completion of their new executive passenger & crew terminal facilities at Shannon Airport (EINN) in Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland with a grand opening celebration and event on February 28, 2014.
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Sochi Airport: the Olympics Test Passed!

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The Sochi Olympics and Paralympics are over. Now that official delegations, athletes, visitors and the legions of volunteers have said goodbye and headed home, the city tries to come back to its common life in a newly upgraded environment. The same thing can be said about Sochi airport and ground handling companies, which had an extremely busy period during the Olympics and Paralympics.
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Nantucket Memorial Airport (KACK) Chooses World Fuel Services Network & Phillips 66® Aviation

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World Fuel Services announced today that Nantucket Memorial Airport (KACK) has chosen to continue to partner with the World Fuel Services Network of FBOs for Phillips 66® Aviation-branded fuel supply, branded programs and marketing support. By securing this bid award, World Fuel Services will extend its business relationship with Nantucket Airport for another three years.
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NBAA, Other Aviation Groups Call for Swift Passage of Senate's Sleep Apnea Bill

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The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) joined a coalition of aviation groups this week in calling for swift passage of U.S. Senate legislation aimed at bringing transparency to any decision by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to implement mandatory testing of pilots and air traffic controllers for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) before receiving a medical certificate.
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