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Getting back to normal, whatever that may be
Almost three months after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, people still talk–perhaps now more wistfully than hopefully–about “when things

Almost three months after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, people still talk–perhaps now more wistfully than hopefully–about “when things return to normal.” But as a high-level FAA official posed recently, “How are we going to define the new normal?”

Business aviation got a wake-up call when it was summarily lumped in with all of the rest of general aviation in the National Airspace System lockdown on September 11. When airliners and Part 135 charter operators were allowed back into the air on September 13, Part 91 operators had to remain on the ground with the remainder of GA.