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Avionics: Good Pilots Not Required?
The definition of what it means to be a good pilot may be changing.
AVweb speaks with former Northwest captain and Embry-Riddle educator
Jack Panosian to explore the question of what's more important in
keeping passengers alive: stick and rudder skills or systems management.
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New FAA-Approved Online
Flight Instructor Refresher Course (FIRC)
AceCFI's new online FIRC lets CFIs keep their flight instructor
certificates active for an entire lifetime for ONE payment of
$99.95. Additionally, the course allows CFIs to receive their temporary
airman certificates by e-mail with no paperwork or hassle involved.
Lesson material includes human factors, aviation accident case studies,
pilot deviation reports pulled from the Aviation Safety Reporting System
(ASRS), and more. Go to AceCFI.com to register.
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Five Twin Training Tips
My actual single-engine landing was less than a month after receiving my
ME rating, with a failed “critical” engine. My confidence went
up greatly after that. Read
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Continental Motors'
Cylinders
Our cylinders begin with raw forging and casting components with the
highest standards in material properties. Each is then machined, honed,
and assembled into a complete cylinder package that we firmly stand
behind. Our employees take pride in building a quality product every
step of the way.
To learn more, call customer service at (800) 326-0089 or visit us at
ContinentalMotors.aero.
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Brainteasers Quiz #187: The Future Is Here ... And
There
As the FAA updates its written knowledge exams, bringing them into
the light of the 21st Century, perhaps ADF and VOR questions will go the
way of gas-operated landing lights. Embrace this age of aviation
enlightenment by acing this quiz.
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the quiz. Read
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AVweb's Aircraft Cylinder Survey: Give Us Your
Views
With a massive AD against ECI cylinders in the offing, we would like to
know reader experiences not just with ECI cylinders, but other brands as
well. If you've got five minutes to spare, you can tell us about your
satisfaction--or lack thereof--with aircraft cylinders you've been
flying behind. Read
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The Phillips 66® Aviation Wings™ Card — The Card
That Does More
When your primary business is aviation, your primary fuel charge card
should be the Phillips 66®
Aviation Wings™ Card. With more locations, more rewards, and
superior service, your Wings Card is convenient and flexible. Use it
with your WingPoints® Rewards
Card for twice as many points! Corporate flight departments can
apply online today for the card that does more. Click here to start now.
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Meet the AVweb Team
AVweb is the world's premier independent aviation news resource,
online since 1995. Our reporting, features, and newsletters are brought
to you by:
Publisher
Tom Bliss
Editorial Director, Aviation Publications
Paul Bertorelli
Editor-in-Chief
Russ Niles
Webmaster
Scott Simmons
Contributing Editors
Mary Grady
Glenn Pew
Avionics Editor
Larry Anglisano
Contributors
Kevin Lane-Cummings
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Does the Cost of Avgas Really Matter?
Surely it must, but perhaps not as much as many of us think. Aircraft
owners and operators confront a wall of high costs and $6 avgas is just
another one. Redbird's fuel experiment next month may shed some light on
what pilots really think. Read
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Video: Electronics International Unveils New Multi-Purpose
Instrument
While old airframes may keep soldiering on, the instruments and radios
in the panels usually don't. At AirVenture this year, Electronics
International rolled out a new instrument designed to replace older
instruments, including tachometers, engines instruments, and other
indicators. In this video, EI's Tyler Speed gives us a quick product
tour of the new CGR-30P. Read
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Video: PS Engineering's PAR200 Multi-Function Audio
System
There's a need for affordable audio system upgrades for basic aircraft.
PS Engineering attempts to answer the call with the PAR200 -- a
three-in-one system that combines an advanced audio panel, a stereo
intercom, and a remote comm radio. In this video, Aviation Consumer's
Larry Anglisano takes a look at the unit during it's introduction at
AirVenture 2013 at Oshkosh. Read
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