EVERETT, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 19, 2024--
AeroMech Incorporated ( www.aeromechinc.com ), the worldwide leader in RVSM certification, announced today that it is developing an RVSM Supplemental Type Certificate (STC), applicable to the Piper M700 Fury aircraft. RVSM has been offered for the Piper Meridian, M500, and M600 aircraft since 2021, and it has been well received with PA-46 operators worldwide.
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The RVSM STC is a performance upgrade that unleashes the full capability of the M700 aircraft, by allowing the aircraft to operate up to FL 300 for increased range, fuel savings, lower carbon footprint, and operational flexibility to fly above weather and cruise in the “express lane” at underutilized flight levels. Owners investing in RVSM can also expect higher resale value with their aircraft.
The AeroMech FAA STC ODA will issue the M700 RVSM STC in Q3 2024. Piper Aircraft will offer the RVSM STC as a factory option for new production M700 aircraft.
For M700 operators who do not obtain RVSM as a factory option, as well as Meridian, M500, and M600 operators in service now, AeroMech’s wholly owned subsidiary, AMI Aviation Services ( www.amiaviation.com ) can conduct RVSM installations at its facilities in Orlando/Sanford (KSFB) and Nashville/Smyrna (KMQY) or onsite via remote “go teams”.
About AeroMech Incorporated
AeroMech Incorporated is a dynamic FAA STC Organization Designation Authorization (“ODA”) company that provides engineering, flight test, and certification services for WIFI, RVSM and Avionics systems to commercial airlines, OEMs, MROs and military customers worldwide. AeroMech has completed over 250 STCs and 400 flight tests since its inception in 1995. For more information, visit www.aeromechinc.com, or email directly to contact@aeromechinc.com.
About AMI Aviation Services, LLC
AMI Aviation Services, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of AeroMech Incorporated, is an FAA part 145 Repair Station (#6A5R818B) that offers Avionics, WIFI, and RVSM system upgrades at its hangar facilities at the Orlando/Sanford International Airport (KSFB) and in Smyrna, TN (KMQY) just outside Nashville. AMI installation services can also be performed offsite with no geographical limitation utilizing its “Go Teams”.
AMI also has part 21 Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA # PQ4017CE) specializing in the design, fabrication, and kitting of complex aircraft electrical harnesses, structural parts, and other installation kit components to support Avionics, WIFI and RVSM system upgrades. For more information, visit www.amiaviation.com or contact AMI Aviation at +1 407.585.6130.
Piper M700 FURY (Photo: Business Wire)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Medicaid expansion efforts fizzled and died Thursday in Republican-led Mississippi because top lawmakers could not agree on a final proposal to send to the House and Senate.
This was the first year that expansion has received serious legislative discussion in Mississippi, which is one of the poorest states in the U.S. and has some of the worst health outcomes.
Any plan would have needed to pass with at least a two-thirds vote — a wide enough margin to survive an expected veto from Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, who refers to Medicaid as “welfare” and says he does not want more people to enroll.
House Medicaid Committee Chair Missy McGee, a Republican, pushed for expansion and said she was disappointed the issue died.
“We did the very best we could to get it across the finish line, and I’m sad that it looks like we’re ending the session without something for the hardworking, low-income Mississippians,” McGee said.
Medicaid is a government health insurance program that covers people with very low incomes. Then-President Barack Obama signed a health care overhaul law in 2010 that allows states to expand coverage, generally to people who work in jobs that pay modest wages and don't provide private health insurance. Ten states, mostly Republican-led, have resisted expansion.
Mississippi House and Senate leaders missed a Thursday night deadline to file a final plan, and that killed the issue for the four-month session that is drawing to a close.
Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann told reporters that passing Medicaid expansion would be the first order of business during the 2025 legislative session.
“In my mind, we’ve left 74,000 people, working, that could’ve had health care coverage in Mississippi,” Hosemann said. “We didn’t give them that.”
House and Senate negotiators released a proposal Monday to expand Medicaid to tens of thousands more people, but it included a work requirement. House Democrats balked before the plan could come up for a vote, saying it was Medicaid expansion in name only because the federal government has blocked several states from having such mandates.
The House offered a new proposal Thursday to would put two questions on the ballot this November: Should Mississippi expand Medicaid? If so, should the expansion include a work requirement?
White said Thursday that a referendum would have been a good measurement of public sentiment about Medicaid expansion.
“I’m proud of my House Republicans for being willing to have an open mind and think about it in terms of what is best for Mississippi in terms of the health care, the health care economy, the health of our people," White said.
Hosemann said the proposal to put Medicaid expansion on the ballot “was not well received” by Senate leaders. He said senators were firm about having a work requirement “with necessary exceptions.”
The Mississippi House voted by a wide bipartisan margin in late February to expand Medicaid coverage to about 200,000 people who earn up to 138% of the federal poverty level, or $20,120 annually for one person. Mississippi has about 3 million residents, and its Medicaid program covered 374,823 people in March.
In late March, the Senate passed its own pared-down version that would extend eligibility to people earning up to 100% of the federal poverty level, just over $15,000 for one person. Senate Medicaid Committee Chairman Kevin Blackwell, a Republican from Southaven, said about 80,000 people would become eligible for coverage.
Mississippi House Medicaid Committee Chairman Rep. Missy McGee, R-Hattiesburg, right, gestures as she confers with House Speaker Rep. Jason White, R-West, at the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Bishop Brian Seage of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi, joins other members of Working Together Mississippi, a coalition of religious and nonprofit groups, at the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., to call on the Mississippi Legislature to reach a compromise that would allow for passage of Medicaid expansion legislation, Thursday, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Members of Working Together Mississippi, a coalition of religious and nonprofit groups, discuss strategy at the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., following a news conference where they called on the Mississippi Legislature to reach a compromise that would allow for passage of Medicaid expansion legislation, Thursday, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Msgr. Elvin Sunds, of the Catholic Diocese of Jackson, joins other members of Working Together Mississippi, a coalition of religious and nonprofit groups, at the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., to call on the Mississippi Legislature to reach a compromise that would allow for passage of Medicaid expansion legislation, Thursday, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Bishop Ronnie Crudup Sr., of the Mid-South Diocese of the Fellowship of International Churches, center, joins other members of Working Together Mississippi, a coalition of religious and nonprofit groups, at the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., calling on the Mississippi Legislature to reach a compromise that would allow for passage of Medicaid expansion legislation, Thursday, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi House of Representatives Speaker Jason White, R-West, calls out the vote count on an appropriations bill in chamber at the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, right, confers with State Sen. Scott DeLano, R-Biloxi, in the Senate Chamber, at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi Senate Medicaid Committee Chairman Sen. Kevin Blackwell, R-Southaven, left, confers with Mississippi House Medicaid Committee Chairman Rep. Missy McGee, R-Hattiesburg, center, and a Senate legislative attorney, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in the hallways of the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., moments before both chambers voted to recommit Medicaid expansion legislation. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
