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Aviation Newswire

  1. Proposed jet rises from drawing board
    Wednesday, 31 December 1969, 7:00 pm
    On paper it looks great, and principals of Stratos Aircraft Inc. are confident their calculations for a new single-engine Stratos 714 very light jet can be met.

  2. Airports a top priority, Boyer tells execs
    Wednesday, 31 December 1969, 7:00 pm
    General aviation has come a long way, but the journey will never end, AOPA President Phil Boyer told the members of the Southwest chapter of the American Association of Airport Executives.

  3. FAA policy changes add congestion pricing, offset GA costs
    Wednesday, 31 December 1969, 7:00 pm
    The FAA has amended its 1996 Rates and Charges Policy to create a so-called "congestion pricing" scheme over the objections of AOPA and the aviation industry. But there is some good news for GA.

  4. Missouri gathering learns GA critical to agriculture
    Wednesday, 31 December 1969, 7:00 pm
    It may have been a dreary rainy day, but that didn't stop a throng of pilots and aviation enthusiasts or Rep. Sam Graves (a Piper J-3 Cub owner and AOPA and EAA member) from turning out for the Fifth. […]

  5. Work-study visas for flight students set to end
    Wednesday, 31 December 1969, 7:00 pm
    The U.S. Department of State has issued a statement of policy announcing its intent to end a program that allows foreign flight students to work while they study in the United States.

News

CheckWX.com Version 2.0»

Today we officially launched our revamped website.  Thanks to your input we have implemented the following:

Moved to a new web host with improved server response times.
Added tabbed interfaces to our weather station layout.
Updated our weather trends and statistical graphs.
Removed the default IFR map on the home page to speed up the load time.
Added sunrise/sunset information […]

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Why Do We Display Google Ads?»

Google Ads, you either love them or hate them. We decided to implement Google ads to defray costs of running this site. We have a yearly cost to register our domain names, a monthly cost for web hosting, and miscellaneous costs for software tools used to create our site. We have […]

Issues

Database Corruption»

We have identified the issue which was causing the database corruption.  Apparently our auto-increment field was not large enough to handle the volume of records which were being processed on a daily basis.