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PRIVATE FLIGHT FLIGHT Business Press International Ltd 1986 Home building, Russian style Nikolai Demidov of the USSR is testing his home- built Gornyak-4 single-seat open-cockpit helicopter. With a 75 h.p. Lada engine it has a 500kg gross weight and a maximum speed of 150km/hr. Rate of climb is claimed to be 2 • 5m/sec. Jeppesen buys Bottlang HILDESHEIM Jeppesen, the manufacturer of world-wide IFR navigation and approach charts, has bought Bottlang and the right to publish the Bottlang VFR Airfield Manuals, which cover a large area of Europe for the general aviation pilot. Founded by Hans Bottlang, the company presently covers all of Europe with the excep tion of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Greece. Jeppe sen intends to fill this gap by the end of 1988, though far more detailed research is needed in producing VFR charts compared with IFR chart publication. Customer updating is simpler, however. Bottlang offers the user detailed topographical charts of the immediate flying area around each airfield, which spans everything from major international airports to private unlicenced strips. Mandatory VFR routing both for helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft are included with many of the major airports. The manual is now to be marketed as Jeppesen-Bott- lang and will continue to be produced at Bottlang's Hild- esheim office near Hanover under the direction of Horst Hucke. "The staff and management at Bottlang remains un changed, but the merger allows Jeppesen to offer the general aviation pilot a complete range of charting which allows him to progress from VFR to IFR flying," says Jeppesen's market ing manager Eberhard Deparade. Aopa cancels training fund FREDERICK The US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (Aopa) has cancelled plans to invest aviation trust fund money in a National Pilot Training Pro gramme. Instead it will concentrate its efforts on free ing money for the purposes intended by Congress— aviation safety and systems. "For many of our members, it was the principle involved that they said should not be disregarded merely because a new aviation need has sur faced," says John L. Baker, president of Aopa. "Their concern is that the Adminis tration, and even a large portion of Congress, know ingly is holding the $8-4 billion surplus in the fund hostage, to make the Federal budget deficit appear smaller than it is, while significant aviation safety and system growth issues remain largely ignored." In March Aopa proposed the use of aviation trust fund money to finance a National Pilot Training Programme, patterned along the lines of the pre-Second World War Civilian Pilot Training Pro gram (CPTP), as one way of combating an anticipated severe pilot shortage in the coming decade. Baker says that while Aopa members are concerned about the projected pilot shortage, many felt that the issue should not be addressed solely by spending . Government funds, especially trust fund money needed for numerous other aviation projects. Turbulence tests Voyager team Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager are still waiting for high winds to moderate before the next test flight leading to their globe-circling attempt. Voyager's handling, and air sickness suffered by the prone copilot, are critical factors. 24 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 4 October 1986
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