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TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – OPERATIONAL SPECIAL NOTICE

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Notice Number: NOTC3729

TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – May 2012 -
There have been several incidents where incoming aircraft were aligned with the wrong runway; 29L or 29R and even Taxiway Alpha.

Runway 29R is being confused for runway 29L due to the recent resurfacing of Taxiway A.

Left Base for Runways 29 at Tucson International Airport

Left Base for Runways 29 at Tucson International Airport

From a distance, while on left base to final and on final, Taxiway Alpha appears to be a runway.  Taxiway Alpha’s length and the new Taxiway Golf give it the appearance of being Runway 29R.  Pilots are confusing 29R for 29L, and making approaches and landing on the wrong runway.

Vigilance is required for operations both day and night.  It would be prudent in the best interest of safety to familiarize yourself with the airport environment.

Taxiway Alpha, in the near foreground, may be mistaken for Runway 29R, and Runway 29R may instead be confused for Runway 29L.

To assist in finding Runway 29L, pilots should look for a threshold to the left of and approximately 2,500 feet past Runway 29R threshold and with bunkers with white/light gray roofs leading up to the threshold of Runway 29L.

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Want to learn to fly? The FAA will help!

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Interested in Free Flight Training Resources?

Check out “FAA Handbooks for the Aspiring Aviator” in the Jan/Feb issue of FAA Safety Briefing. The article reviews several of the free FAA pilot resources available online, including the Student Pilot Guide, the Airplane Flying Handbook, and the Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge. http://www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/?cid=FB103

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Southeast Practice Area Being Redefined

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The Arizona Flight Training Workgroup needs comments from flight instructors and others who fly and train regularly in the southeastern Phoenix metropolitan area.

The AFTW is redrawing its popular chart depicting practice areas over the PHX area, and your comments will be used to help increase safety over airspace that both commercial jet traffic and training flights currently share. Continue reading →

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Air Force cracks down on practice ILS at Aux-1 west of Phoenix

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In a legal opinion, Luke Air Force Base’s top lawyer says that civilian use of the practice ILS approach at AUX-1 airfield northwest of Phoenix is “unauthorized” and measures should be taken to prevent its use by anyone other than military pilots.

“The Air Force does face potential liability connected with this practice,” wrote Capt. Bradley J. Sauer, chief of Operations and Administrative Law, in a Nov. 14 memorandum to Luke officials. The USAF’s Staff Judge Advocate, Lt. Col. Thomas L. Cluff Jr., also signed off on the memo.

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ASA offers free syllabi as part of SAFE effort to improve flight training

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The Pilot Training Reform Symposium chaired by the Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE) the first week in May 2011 has produced the first tangible dividend.

Responding to a recommendation proposed by the Aviation Educators breakout group, Aviation Supplies & Academics (ASA) announced that it is now offering the PDF versions of its syllabi for download from ASA’s website at no charge. The PDFs include two Private Pilot syllabi and one syllabus each for Instrument, Commercial, and Helicopter.

The specific recommendation to which ASA responded “addresses a specific problem…of instructors teaching using the seat of their pants without the use of a syllabus or plan of action.” The recommendation also challenged industry to provide “standardized curriculum templates that instructors (14 CFR 61 as well as 141) can use.” According to symposium chair Bob Wright, “We are delighted that ASA and others have taken the symposium’s message to heart and are responding with prompt action.”

Information generated since the symposium is posted to the training reform website as it becomes available, and a significant portion of the proceedings will soon be available for viewing through the Aero-News Network’s Aero-TV.

ASA Syllabi: http://www.asa2fly.com/Textbook-Syllabi—PDF-C413_category.aspx

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