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Scouts glimpse aviation from the inside out
DOWNPOURS AND CHILLY temperatures couldn’t keep Boy Scout troops from setting up camp behind AOPA’s headquarters at Frederick Municipal Airport in Frederick, Maryland, recently for an aviation camporee weekend to work toward their aviation badges. Frederick Troop 1998 hosted the event.

the Mid-Atlantic Soaring Association, preflight demonstrations from local pilots, a question-and-answer session about helicopters at Advanced Helicopter Concepts, building a wing rib for a Van’s RV-8 with Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 524, a look at jets inside Landmark Aviation’s hangars,

THE SCOUTS IMPRESSED VOLUNTEER PILOTS WITH HOW MUCH INFORMATION THEY HAD RETAINED.
After pitching their tents in the rain, the scouts warmed up inside AOPA headquarters Friday night to watch movies with aviation themes. On Saturday, the scouts learned about gliders, fixed-wing piston singles, helicopters, and jets. Sunday’s events included an opportunity to fly AOPA’s flight simulator, while the visual projection in the AOPA media room allowed other scouts to critique the “pilot’s” performance. Scouts rotated through various stations that included an explanation of aerodynamics and glider operations by
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a tour of the Maryland State Police hangar and medevac helicopter, handson science experiments with Kraemer Aviation Services, and flight planning at Frederick Flight Center. The Air Safety Institute showed the scouts a PinchHitter® video, aimed at helping people new to aviation understand the basics of flight. The scouts impressed volunteer pilots with how much information they had retained. Members of Troop 470 quickly rattled off the four forces of flight and parts of an aircraft.

Pilots encouraged to ‘fly friendly’ over marine sanctuaries
NOAA cautioned on bid to restrict airspace
AOPA IS READY to work with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to encourage pilots to “fly friendly” in the vicinity of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary and other noise-sensitive areas. Pilots will be urged to comply with FAA guidance to avoid overflight of noise-sensitive areas below 2,000 feet agl. The guidance, contained in FAA Advisory Circular 91-36D, is recommended, not mandatory. AOPA said it would work to educate pilots about voluntary compliance with recommended flight altitudes, but continues to question NOAA’s authority to impose overflight restriction zones over marine sanctuaries. Any such mandate should be enacted by the FAA through the normal rulemaking process, AOPA said in formal comments on the NOAA’s proposed revisions of rules for the Olympic National Marine Sanctuary in Washington state. The proposed rule changes include language stating that NOAA will improve compliance with the Washington sanctuary’s “wildlife disturbance mitigation (overflight restriction) zone through collaboration” with AOPA and the Washington Pilots Association “to improve outreach products for and communication with local pilots.”

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