Storm Cancels Thousands Of Flights The nasty mix of ice and snow that blanketed the Southeast on the weekend is expected to linger through Monday, cancelling thousands of...
Industry Round-up, December 7, 2018 This week, AVweb’s news roundup found stories about an FBO taking reservations for the Super Bowl, a new aviation search engine, a...
Modern Navigators Are Unerring, But Also Numb To The Universe Modern navigation requires no knowledge of anything beyond an on-off switch and a memory for step through menus. It's too bad, in a way.
Top Letters And Comments, December 7, 2018 This week's letters brought comments from readers about a runway overrun, sumping fuel tanks during preflight inspections, self-driving...
Short Final: Twilight Zone My wife and I departed Deer Valley Airport in Phoenix in our Cessna 177RG. Before departing we received a complicated taxi clearance to...
Fuel Strainer Lottery Every time you drain the tanks and don't get what you're looking for, you're a winner. Skip this step at your own risk.
Who's Afraid Of A Dead ASI? Evidently, some people are. If your instructor didn't cover ASI-less flying in primary training, you've led a sheltered life.
Vulcanair's V1.0-Skyhawk Killer? The Italian company Vulcanair is touring with the V1.0, a four-place single they hope to market to the training segment. It's more than...
Distracted Flying Cited In Landing Accident Distracted flying has been cited in the dynamic rollover of a light helicopter in Ireland in July. The country’s Air Accidents...
Top Letters And Comments, December 7, 2018 This week's letters brought comments from readers about a runway overrun, sumping fuel tanks during preflight inspections, self-driving...
Sleep Is Underrated The drone of engines and the soft white noise of a radar room are soporifics more powerful than high school English class. It's not so...
Fuel Strainer Lottery Every time you drain the tanks and don't get what you're looking for, you're a winner. Skip this step at your own risk.
Podcast: Wheels Up On A Roll Wheels Up has gone from a curiosity to a major force in the charter world in six short years and it's not finished growing yet. AVweb...
FAA Cracks Down On Illegal Charters An Oklahoma helicopter company has been fined more than $50,000 for dodging FAA regulations and illegally chartering fixed-wing aircraft....
Top Letters And Comments, November 30, 2018 This week's letters brought comments from readers about flying without an ASI, using GA airplanes for Thanksgiving travel, aircraft...
Seller Beware Airplane sales are famously loosey-goosey. As a result, they are depressingly susceptible to fraud. Read this tale and maybe you'll avoid...
ADS-B Apocalypse We're not quite there yet, but you can see if from here. Avionics shops are scheduling out two or three months for installation and that...
How Mooney Marries Composite To Metal At Mooney's Kerrville, Texas, factory, the company has invested in new production techniques and equipment. In this AVweb video, the...
Bell Delivers First 505 For Law Enforcement A law enforcement-configured Bell 505 Jet Ranger X has been delivered to the Sacramento Police Department, Bell announced on Monday. It...
Volvo: Self-driving Cars Will Compete With Air Travel Volvo showed off its latest autonomous-car design, the 360c, at a recent auto show in Los Angeles, and noted that the fully self-driving...
ADS-B Apocalypse We're not quite there yet, but you can see if from here. Avionics shops are scheduling out two or three months for installation and that...
Video: Stemme S10/12 Touring Motorglider Powered by a Rotax 914 turbocharged engine, the Stemme S10VT and the in-development S12 represent the latest in touring motorglider...
New RV Airshow Team Formed Although its team members have been flying airshows together for more than five years, the Lightning Formation Airshows Team was...
21-Hornet Flypast At Bush Interment Rather than a 21-gun salute, the Navy’s planned tribute to the late President George H.W. Bush could be called a 21-top-gun salute.
Why You Should Never Fly Into Oshkosh Flying into Oshkosh during AirVenture can be fun or an ordeal. Or something in between. But whoever ventures into the fray should...
NBAA: Focus On The Future The only thing certain about the future is its inexorable arrival but when things are changing as quickly as they seem to be, it's more...
Storm Cancels Thousands Of Flights The nasty mix of ice and snow that blanketed the Southeast on the weekend is expected to linger through Monday, cancelling thousands of...
Buzzy The Drone Leads FAA Kids Campaign Children haven’t traditionally been the target of FAA compliance efforts but Buzzy the Drone will lead the agency into the holiday...
Remembering ATC's Secret Weapon You may think ATC runs on sophisticated radar and powerful computers that track every gnat in the sky. But it's the people who make it work.
NBAA: Focus On The Future The only thing certain about the future is its inexorable arrival but when things are changing as quickly as they seem to be, it's more...
How Mooney Marries Composite To Metal At Mooney's Kerrville, Texas, factory, the company has invested in new production techniques and equipment. In this AVweb video, the...
uAvionix ADS-B Patent Application Accepted The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has accepted the patent application for uAvionix’s “Aircraft Navigation...
Aspen Service Bulletin Addresses Display Resets Aspen Avionics has issued a mandatory service bulletin identifying how to avoid issues with the repeated inflight system resets recently...
ADS-B Apocalypse We're not quite there yet, but you can see if from here. Avionics shops are scheduling out two or three months for installation and that...
NBAA: Focus On The Future The only thing certain about the future is its inexorable arrival but when things are changing as quickly as they seem to be, it's more...
ADS-B Portables Reviewed We figured the ADS-B portable market would die with the 2020 mandate a little over a year away. But a crop of three new ones appeared...
