Aero: Cirrus Expands Training Initiatives While Cirrus’ sales success with the SR line and now the VisionJet is obvious, less well known is that the company is becoming a...
CFIs Urged To Get Uncomfortable The Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE) is challenging CFIs young and old to sharpen their own hand flying skills to pass...
Podcast: Rust Remover For CFIs Hand flying is a major safety focus in the drive to reduce loss-of-control accidents and CFIs are being urged to sharpen their own stick...
FlightSafety Among The Best Midsized Companies: Forbes For the second year in a row, FlightSafety International has been named one of Forbes' “best mid-sized employers.” It is one of...
The Real Risks Of Engine Failures Almost from the beginning of our flight training, pilots are drilled on simulated engine failures in every phase of flight. Once...
Doing Runway Turnbacks Is One Thing, But Should We Teach Them? Wanna start a fight? Just start talking about turning back to the runway after an engine crump. It's high time we start equipping pilots...
There Will Be Mud And you'll have to land and take off on it in that indeterminate season between snow-locked runways and the freshly mowed scents of...
Elixir's Molded Carbon Fiber Airplane At Aero in Friedrichshafen, Germany, a French company called Elixir was showing a unique two-seat airplane built of molded carbon fiber...
Boeing Targets 737 MAX Ungrounding in July Reuters is reporting that Boeing is telling airlines that “it is targeting U.S. Federal Aviation Administration approval of its...
Bearhawk Designer Bob Barrows Injured In Landing Crash Bob Barrows, who designed the Bearhawk line of experimental aircraft, suffered a landing accident on approach to Holly Ridge/Topsail...
LAX 24L: A Runway With a Tragic History You may recall this 1991 accident. But you may not know how many lives it touched and how many it saved for the changes put in place to...
MAX And The Press Covering this story is like pushing a chain. But we owe it to readers to get it as right as we can.
Podcast: GAMA President Pete Bunce On The Boeing 737 MAX GAMA President Pete Bunce discusses the potential industry-wide impacts of the questions that have arisen regarding the certification of...
Drone NPRM Draws 899 Comments The comment period on the FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on its rules for drone operations has ended and 899 comments were...
Top Letters And Comments, April 19, 2019 This week's letters brought comments from readers about flying in extremely cold temperatures, electric aircraft and the Boeing 737 MAX.
Sometimes Old Technology Is Appropriate It can be hard to improve on some things that just work and the Air Force is coming to that realization with some of its legacy aircraft.
Aero Blog: Daher On A Roll And Are Electrics Real? 300 knots in a TBM is real enough, I'll tell ya that. They said they'd let me fly one soon.
Cabin Tour New Cirrus G2 Jet Cirrus recently announced the second generation of its SF50 VisionJet. In this video shot at Aero in Friedrichshafen, Germany, Adam Hahn...
Daher Unveils Refreshed TBM 910 Daher has split the linear development of its highly regarded high-performance turboprop singles at Sun ’n Fun 2019 with the...
Sun 'n Fun Launches Tuesday Everything from gliders to state-of-the-art business jets will be on display as the flying world flocks to Lakeland, Florida, for the...
Garmin Closes the Deal With two new product intros, Garmin essentially owns the avionics market save for tiny niches where others still compete. BendixKing? A...
Cabin Tour New Cirrus G2 Jet Cirrus recently announced the second generation of its SF50 VisionJet. In this video shot at Aero in Friedrichshafen, Germany, Adam Hahn...
Industry Round-up, April 19, 2019 AVweb’s weekly news roundup found reports on a special award for Gulf Coast Avionics, a new training system at Pacific Sky Aviation,...
Milaca To Host New STOL Competition The airshow season is about fast-moving, rapidly gyrating aircraft. For some, it’s about witnessing a watchmaker’s level of...
Aero Blog: Daher On A Roll And Are Electrics Real? 300 knots in a TBM is real enough, I'll tell ya that. They said they'd let me fly one soon.
Revivals From Diamond And Flight Design Aero has proven fertile ground for new ideas or resurrections of old ones. This year is no exception.
Cool Microlight Carbon Fiber Corsair JH Aircraft, a German company, was showing a cool ultralight Corsair at Aero 2019 this week. It's made of carbon fiber, has a...
NASA Lander Hears Likely Mars “Quake” NASA says its InSight Mars probe has “measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely ‘marsquake.’ ” The...
Boeing Targets 737 MAX Ungrounding in July Reuters is reporting that Boeing is telling airlines that “it is targeting U.S. Federal Aviation Administration approval of its...
LAX 24L: A Runway With a Tragic History You may recall this 1991 accident. But you may not know how many lives it touched and how many it saved for the changes put in place to...
Sometimes Old Technology Is Appropriate It can be hard to improve on some things that just work and the Air Force is coming to that realization with some of its legacy aircraft.
Autothrottle On Daher TBM940 At Sun 'n Fun 2019, Daher Aircraft introduced a first for turboprop singles: autothrottles. The system is integrated within the TBM940's...
Aero: Boeing MAX Fallout May Have Benefits Multiple investigations into two accidents of Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft will inevitably focus on a much misunderstood FAA program called...
Levil Introduces Astro Link ADS-B In Module At Sun 'n Fun this week, Levil Avionics debuted a new ADS-B In receiver to drive various tablet-based systems with no-cost weather and...
Garmin Closes the Deal With two new product intros, Garmin essentially owns the avionics market save for tiny niches where others still compete. BendixKing? A...
Forget 1984, 1994 Was the Bomb It was the year of the future, avionics wise and otherwise. We just didn’t know it. Maybe we still don’t.
Podcast: uAvionix ADS-B Experiment In U.K. As the 2020 ADS-B mandate pumpkin looms on the horizon, say this is about the system: Once you’ve ponied up for the installation...
