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Florida Community College’s Cecil Center South — Aviation Center of Excellence (ACE) is one of only 65 colleges in the nation to offer Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certified training. The Center’s 47,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility at the U.S. Navy’s former Cecil Field is the envy of most schools.
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The Federal Aviation Administration is devising a method of alerting pilots who enter a restricted airspace to leave immediately. To do this is will use a laser beam pointed at the aircraft in a certain color. This is something new, but the concept is probably something, which came from the VASI light system for glide paths on landing. VASI is Vertical Air Situation Indicator.
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Currently in its 13th year of operations, Denver-based Frontier Airlines is the second largest jet service carrier at Denver International Airport, employing approximately 5,000 aviation professionals. With 55 aircraft and one of the youngest Airbus fleet in North America, Frontier offers 24 channels of DIRECTV® service in every seatback along with 33 inches of legroom in an all coach configuration. In conjunction with Frontier JetExpress operated by Horizon Air, Frontier operates routes linking its Denver hub to 55 destinations including 47 destinations in 29 states spanning the nation from coast to coast, seven cities in Mexico and one city in Canada. Frontier's maintenance and engineering department has received the Federal Aviation Administration's highest award, the Diamond Certificate of Excellence, in recognition of 100 percent of its maintenance and engineering employees completing advanced aircraft maintenance training programs, for seven consecutive years. In July 2006, Frontier ranked as one of the "Top 5 Domestic Airlines" as determined by readers of Travel & Leisure magazine. Frontier provides capacity information and other operating statistics on its Web site, which may be viewed at FrontierAirlines.com.
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Now, when Landrum & Brown begins an airspace analysis, it gathers the point information it needs from multiple sources, such as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and private data vendors. The analysis team loads the data in Autodesk Civil 3D, and the software converts the data to the correct grid system. The firm then analyzes the data within Civil 3D to find runway approaches that avoid obstructions and meet all FAA requirements.
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LAS VEGAS, March 9, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Allegiant Air, LCC, a subsidiary of Allegiant Travel Company, (Nasdaq: ALGT) was recently honored with the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT) Diamond Award of Excellence. The Diamond level award is the highest level of achievement in the AMT program. The award recognizes the airline and its eligible maintenance technicians for a 100 percent participation rate in the program.
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