FAA, Build A Plane Partner to Pair Students with Retired Airplanes WASHINGTON — Budding high school mechanics may find themselves working on old airplanes instead of junked cars thanks to a new agreement signed today by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Build A Plane organization. Under the agreement, the FAA and Build A Plane will join forces to help give more aviation-minded students hands-on experience working on real airplanes. Each organization will use its unique resources to send retired aircraft to schools looking to establish an aviation maintenance program. Click here for more Check NOTAMS online PilotWeb site provides access to current NOTAM information. This site incorporates many features to assist the user when retrieving NOTAM requests. Real time NOTAM data is available, and contains all NOTAMs validated by the U.S. NOTAM System (USNS), which includes domestic, international, military and from Flight Data Centers (FDC). You can even find Notams within a certain distance of your route. Click here for the FAA site index and go to NOTAMs. FSS WEBSITE Are you put on hold for several minutes when you call 800/WX-BRIEF? You shouldn't be. Are you getting detailed security and weather briefings when you call? You should be. That's part of Lockheed Martin's promise to pilots while it is modernizing the FSS system, which it took over from the FAA on October 4 last year. If they aren't, you now have a way to report service difficulties to Lockheed Martin — through its new Web site. The site provides pilots with a means to report any difficulties they experience with flight service, along with updates on the progress of the modernization, known as FS21, and information for flight planning.