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Coming up in the news for the week of January 19th, 2026, ForeFlight and Jeppesen announce layoffs.

AOPA is asking pilots to contact Congress.

And from our bad boys file, we have three stories of pilots in trouble.

All this and more,

and the news starts now.

From multiple sources, ForeFlight and Jeppesen announced layoffs.

Changes are afoot at ForeFlight and Jeppesen, as many of us had anticipated after they were sold from Boeing to Tomo Bravo.

That deal closed on November 3rd.

Tomo Bravo is a private equity firm known for software and technology-focused buyouts.

In December, a month after they were purchased, ForeFlight announced that the discounts that they offered to flight instructors was being cut in half.

And now, two months after the deal closed, there have been layoffs.

I first learned of this last week from an employee who emailed me saying essentially that over 200 people were laid off.

Many of them were software coders, and many of them were pilots, which is what made them both passionate and really good at their work.

And it appears that some of the work is starting to be outsourced to developers in another country with lower wages.

It's been reported in some places that 50% of the workforce has been cut, but apparently that's not quite accurate.

I'm told that some teams have had cuts of more than 50%, including the group that develops the logbook portion of ForeFlight.

So stay tuned for future news about ForeFlight and Jeppesen.

From AOPA.org, AOPA asked pilots to contact Congress to support the Pilot and Aircraft Privacy Act, or PAPA.

The PAPA bill would address growing concerns over the use of ADS-B data, including its use by some airports to charge fees to pilots.

AOPA issued a call to action asking pilots to contact their senators and representatives in Congress and urge them to co-sponsor the Pilot and Aircraft Privacy Act.

AOPA President Darren Pleasant said, quote, when the ADS-B mandate went into effect in 2020, the FAA said this important technology would only be used for safety and airspace efficiency.

Instead, we're now seeing it used in ways that discourage its adoption.

If passed, PAPA would prohibit the use of ADS-B data to assist in the collection of fees from pilots or aircraft owners, clarify that ADS-B data may only be used for its intended purpose of air safety traffic and efficiency, expand a provision in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 that would effectively ban any government official from initiating a non-criminal investigation based solely on ADS-B data, ensure airports are transparent about proposed fees and their intended purpose, and give the Secretary of Transportation the discretion to authorize other uses of ADS-B data.

AOPA also said, To be clear, the bill would not prevent airports from imposing fees on pilots, nor would it impede the use of FlightAware, FlightRadar24, and other popular flight tracking apps.

When this bill becomes law, airports will be able to impose fees as long as they are fair and reasonable.