The Pilot’s Lounge #138: A Welcoming Airport My wife and I drew up a list of things that were important to us for a place to live. High on the list was a short drive to a general...
ForeFlight Adds Pre-Departure Clearances And ATIS ForeFlight has announced that it is now providing mobile Pre-Departure Clearance (PDC) and Digital Automated Terminal Information Service...
When There's No Need For Speed Writing about landings gone bad is a perennial favorite of aviation columnists. And guess what? There's an unending supply of raw...
Chagrin And Bear It Even if no one died, mistakes of the past cling to the consciousness like a bad odor. At least writing a blog about it helps.
Frasca Named Navy Subcontractor Flight simulator manufacturer Frasca International announced that it has been named subcontractor for the Navy TH-57 Aircrew Training...
The Pilot’s Lounge #138: A Welcoming Airport My wife and I drew up a list of things that were important to us for a place to live. High on the list was a short drive to a general...
How Not to Botch The FAA Medical The medical form has a box asking about hospital admission. To keep yourself out of the psych ward, go ahead and just check it and let...
They Call The Wind Betty The wind is never tricky, malicious, diabolical or even remorseless. It's just wind and you're stuck with dealing with it. In today's...
Redbird Caravan Amphib Simulator Redbird Flight Simulations is developing a Cessna Caravan amphibious flight simulator. In this AVweb video, we took it for a test run at...
High-Desert Tales: Smoke The first record attempt of the 2015 Mojave Records Week was on Tuesday, April 14. The record I was attempting to break was the C1C time...
Aireon Casts A Net With tracking satellites in place, no place on Earth remains unknown. While that may make a truly lost aircraft a thing of the past, it...
They Call The Wind Betty The wind is never tricky, malicious, diabolical or even remorseless. It's just wind and you're stuck with dealing with it. In today's...
The Strange But True Story Of The Cornfield Bomber AVweb blogger Paul Berge recently observed--only half in jest--that an airplane would land itself if left unattended. It has happened, as...
Top Letters And Comments, September 14, 2018 This week's letters brought comments from readers about space tourism, Aireon's ADS-B tracking satellites, eVTOL development, what makes...
EAA Talks Homebuilt Reform With FAA The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) says that its Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification (MOSAIC) rulemaking...
How Not to Botch The FAA Medical The medical form has a box asking about hospital admission. To keep yourself out of the psych ward, go ahead and just check it and let...
What If They Had A PAFI And No One Came? With Swift's announcement this week that it's giving up on the FAA's PAFI program, Shell remains the only contender for an unleaded...
ADS-B Installation Field Report With the Jan. 1, 2020, ADS-B equipage mandate quickly approaching, Aviation Consumer magazine is kicking up its field reporting on ADS-B...
Top Letters And Comments, September 14, 2018 This week's letters brought comments from readers about space tourism, Aireon's ADS-B tracking satellites, eVTOL development, what makes...
Vertical Aerospace Flies eVTOL Vertical Aerospace, based in the United Kingdom, has built a full-scale eVTOL technology demonstrator and recently announced the aircraft...
Can Dynon's Installation Policy Really Work? Until now, you went to an established avionics shop for a major avionics retrofit. But Dynon is changing that paradigm and opening up the...
High-Desert Tales: Smoke The first record attempt of the 2015 Mojave Records Week was on Tuesday, April 14. The record I was attempting to break was the C1C time...
Spitfire Circumnavigation Planned What sounds like a dream flight will undoubtedly be a technical and logistical nightmare as a British group attempts the first...
Unleaded Avgas: All On The Same Page (Not) If you were thinking the torturous road to unleaded avgas was about to straighten and reveal the path to enlightenment, this year's...
AirVenture In The Tail Lights AirVenture 2018 set attendance records and also left the AVweb staff with some indelible memories.
SpaceX Introduces First Passenger For Moon Flight SpaceX has announced that Japanese fashion entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa has purchased a flight around the moon on the company’s...
Frasca Named Navy Subcontractor Flight simulator manufacturer Frasca International announced that it has been named subcontractor for the Navy TH-57 Aircrew Training...
Space Race: Virgin vs. Blue Origin Both companies are rushing to be the first to loft space tourists into the inky blackness above the Karman line. They'll need to be...
What If They Had A PAFI And No One Came? With Swift's announcement this week that it's giving up on the FAA's PAFI program, Shell remains the only contender for an unleaded...
The Strange But True Story Of The Cornfield Bomber AVweb blogger Paul Berge recently observed--only half in jest--that an airplane would land itself if left unattended. It has happened, as...
Top Letters And Comments, August 31, 2018 This week's letters brought comments from readers about Swift Fuels suspending its involvement with PAFI, aircraft speed, the...
Avidyne Entegra Displays Get ADS-B If you fly an Avidyne Entegra-equipped Cirrus or Piper, you've been waiting a while for the upgrade that puts ADS-B data on the big...
Can Dynon's Installation Policy Really Work? Until now, you went to an established avionics shop for a major avionics retrofit. But Dynon is changing that paradigm and opening up the...
ADS-B Installation Field Report With the Jan. 1, 2020, ADS-B equipage mandate quickly approaching, Aviation Consumer magazine is kicking up its field reporting on ADS-B...
