<p>Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&amp;P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.</p>


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<p><a href="http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#docketDetail?R=FAA-2010-0636" target="_blank">Proposed changes</a> to Parts 25 and 33 address dangerous icing conditions caused by supercooled large drops including a requirement that manufacturers not only show that airplanes can operate safely in those conditions but also with specific performance and handling qualities and that “all new transport-category designs be able to fly in conditions where supercooled liquid and ice crystals exist.” Changes would add new icing certification standards for engines and engine installations and components such as angle of attack and airspeed indicating systems. Interestingly, this rulemaking would finally close a significant gap between Part 23 and 25 icing certification standards. There is a stricter requirement for Part 23 airplanes: that they be “capable of operating safely in continuous maximum and intermittent maximum icing conditions,” and to specific “performance, controllability, maneuverability and stability” standards. Part 25 airplanes “must be able to operate safely” in the same conditions, but there is currently no definition of what “to operate safely” means. Comments are due by August 30.&nbsp;</p>


FAA: Large Airplanes Must Handle Supercooled Drops 

<link http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#docketDetail?R=FAA-2010-0636 _blank>Proposed changes</link> to Parts 25 and 33 address dangerous ici

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