Hello again and welcome to aviation news talk, a weekly show with relevant news and flying

tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. I'm Max Truscott. For our main topic

today, we'll be talking about the rules regarding fuel gauge accuracy. Plus, we've got an

interesting wrinkle when flying a missed approach following an IFR visual approach.

Plus, listener stories from you about close calls you've had while flying.

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I think you'll enjoy today's discussion about fuel gauges and you won't want to miss future shows.

This week in the news,

Eclipse Aviation has been sold while in bankruptcy. New aircraft sales this year are

mostly down, though piston sales are up. In a UAV pilot may be going to jail. All this and more,

and the news starts now.

From Law360.com, One Aviation's $5 million dollar chapter 11 sale is okayed.

Now, the company name One Aviation might not be familiar to you, so let me give you a brief

history.

You probably recall that Eclipse Aviation, founded 1998 burned through over a billion dollars to produce the Eclipse 500 very light jet.

And according to a recent Aveweb article, quote, Eclipse claimed to have as many as 2,500 orders and plan to produce 1,000 airplanes a year, some 1,400 ordered by Dayjet, a

budding on-demand air taxi idea that also went belly up. Now, fewer than 300

eclipse aircraft were ever built before the company entered bankruptcy. Total company

liabilities were estimated at over $1 billion. In 2009, after a lengthy Chapter 7 process,

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