Also: TSA Going Private?, ALTO Aviation, Aleutian Islands Rescue, Leesburg YE Rally MOSAIC Day is less than a week away and this year’s inaugural event looks to be massive. The remainder of the MOSAIC rule that will be submitted to the FAA by the end of next week will actually be discussed and unveiled at Thursday, 1000ET, at the start of our live webcast presentation. The entire event is scheduled to run from approximately 1000 ET to 1400and is based in the LightPlane Forum tent. A four-year-old fight about who should be allowed to fly at a public airport is still not over… instead, it has gotten all the way up to Washington. If all goes to plan, the controversial ultralight ban at Yuba will finally be settled once and for all. H55 has handed off its first commercial, certification-ready battery modules to BRM Aero, allowing the partners to finally piece together the electric training aircraft they’ve been pitching for over two years: the Bristell B23 Energic. This pushes the program from development toward full aircraft-level validation. In response to the significant number of industry participants and stakeholders who contacted the FAA and their legislators, and who posted comments to the federal register asking for an extension of the comment period for the FAA’s 141 Pilot School Modernization Initiative, that extension has been granted. All this — and MORE in today’s episode of Airborne-Unlimited!!!
