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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Beacon Pointe Advisors ( Beacon Pointe ) acquires its second Dallas based firm this month, adding $230M D.R. Saur Financial ( D.R. Saur ) to its expanding DFW metroplex footprint.
Matt Cooper, President of Beacon Pointe Advisors shares, Beacon Pointe is focused on building scale in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. The transaction with D.R. Saur is another step toward that goal. Dan and Lisa Saur are two of the nicest people you could ever meet, and we are thrilled to have them become a part of our hub office in Plano.
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The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a set of recommendations to the FAA intended to increase scrutiny on flight-instructor performance. Using the 2019 crash of a parachute-jump Beech King Air in Hawaii as the impetus, the NTSB’s latest recommendations ask the FAA to more closely watch pass/fail rates of students from any given instructor to help detect sub-par training. The June 2019 accident resulted in 11 deaths, including the pilot, after the Oahu Parachute Center King Air impacted terrain shortly after takeoff.
The NTSB said that the “accident pilot had failed three initial flight tests in his attempts to obtain his private pilot certificate, instrument rating, and commercial pilot certificate after receiving instruction from a single instructor. The pilot subsequently passed each flight test. The … accident pilot was not alone in his failed attempts; the pass rate for other students t