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Let me know the next time you know of anyone flying a jet more than 50 nm below 18,000. :rolleyes2:

Of course, the 172s, 182, and Debonair fly around VFR on many flights and not necessarily with flight following so you'll see them out and about with no tracking available.

Thanks much for watching. I hope you find it useful. Regarding your suggestion about a place to go to get the latest on issues, it's tough to keep a briefing document up to date. Best place to go is to HOVER on the Advocacy Tab on the Home page and then from the drop down select Advocacy...

The BARR program is all or nothing. You can't select on a flight by flight basis which flights are visible and AOPA's airplanes have been unblocked for years.

Roger Myers was a 30-year employee who left as CFO in about 2012. During his tenure, he elected to have deferred compensation, which is continuing to be paid out after his departure--money he earned during his time as an employee; same with Phil Boyer, Diana Roberts and some other former execs...

Tim, with all due respect, we report routinely on these items throughout all of our communications channels, magazines, web sites, email newsletters, and video channel--no BS. No. 1, 3, and 4 are part of the Part 23 rewrite, which AOPA has been hugely supportive of and participated in...

The 990s include every bit of compensation to the execs, right down to cell phone reimbursement--which is also taxed. And, by the way, for those who bother looking at the financials, the revenue was $47.6 million in 2013, down from $53.5 million in 2012--and not that it will change anyone's...

The audited financials can be found under the Governance tab in the About section of the Web site. Here's a link to the 2013 financials: http://www.aopa.org/-/media/Files/AOPA/Home/About%20AOPA/Governance/AOPA%20Governance%20Page/AOPA_FS_2013.pdf

All of AOPA's aircraft have been unblocked for more than five years.

The AOPA Aircraft a Finance program is no longer affiliated with Bank of America. It is now run by AOPA itself and uses a consortium of banks and lending institutions in order to find the best fit for a particular buyer. The result is much broader financing opportunities than with BoA...

An AOPA survey in 2012 shows that only about 2 percent of Santa Monica residents see the airport as a significant concern. http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2012/May/17/Survey-Santa-Monica-airport-not-key-issue

As stated in our online comments policy, which is linked from the page where comments are posted, the comments for each story close on the Monday after the story was originally posted. The comments on that story closed last Monday. If there's something you'd like to share not already covered...

The Millionaire's Unit, about the young guys from Yale who help build America's air power during WWI. http://www.amazon.com/The-Millionaires-Unit-Aristocratic-Invented/dp/B000MGBPBK

Adam was the head of the Center to Advance the Pilot Community, which, as you can read here, was a part of the organization that was eliminated during a recent restructuring: http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2013/October/18/AOPA-restructures-to-refocus-priorities.aspx

The flying club initiative is still very much alive and being actively worked. The flying club network is growing and resources for flying clubs being developed. You can find out more under the Community and Events tab at AOPA.org. Efforts to grow the pilot population, including the flight...

I checked with the AOPA Insurance Services team, and, yep, a number of erroneous emails went out recently--the result of moving a bunch of data from an old system to a new one months ago. Those affected should have received a follow up email with an explanation. Apologizes from the insurance...

George, Please forward me the email and I will have someone look into it. I will PM you.

I am and will forward this to our Government Affairs team.

Please let AOPA know about this using this form. http://aopa.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0TypYcZhI6Jsa57 We are tracking all of these incidents and gathering data for upcoming presentations to Congress. Thanks.

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