Short Final I was in the lineup to depart LAX. A Delta jet was ahead of me and a Short Bros 360 was ahead of Delta … Delta (strong southern...
Post-Hurricane Helper? Beware the Hidden Risks When disaster strikes, volunteer pilots can be a significant part of the relief effort; but they need to know the legal and physical...
GPS Makes Us Lazy If you’re always flying the magenta line and arriving via pre-loaded RNAV approaches, maybe you’re not working hard enough. In...
ISTAT Funds Women In Aviation Programs The International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading Foundation is giving $10,000 to Women in Aviation International (WAI) to expand...
The Dark Side Of BasicMed Hint: It doesn't have anything to do with a checkmark appearing next to the word "anus."
Podcast: How To Help In Florida And Texas The impulse is to help and pilots have the tools to do a tremendous amount of good in crisis situations but they can also do a lot of...
AOPA’s Landsberg To Join NTSB Bruce Landsberg, who worked as a safety advocate at the AOPA Air Safety Institute for many years, has been nominated to be a member and...
Post-Hurricane Helper? Beware the Hidden Risks When disaster strikes, volunteer pilots can be a significant part of the relief effort; but they need to know the legal and physical...
In Case You Thought Airline Flying Was Always Safe, Consider 1958 It was one of several years in which gory accidents forced changes in the system. Today's feature offers an entertaining summary.
What's To Be Learned From This Tree Landing? For one thing, don't do anything, ever, anywhere unless you're ready to be a viral video star.
Over 40,000 ADS-B Aircraft Operating In U.S. As of Sept. 1, over 40,000 U.S.-registered aircraft have been equipped to comply with the 2020 ADS-B Out mandate, says the General...
Help Welcome, But Make Sure It's Helping The president of the largest benefit flying organization in the U.S. says help is welcome from private aircraft owners in the enormous...
The Dark Side Of BasicMed Hint: It doesn't have anything to do with a checkmark appearing next to the word "anus."
Cirrus Nails The Jet The SF50 Vision Jet does just what Cirrus says it would. Buyers, I'm sure, will swoon. But what's next?
Podcast: How To Help In Florida And Texas The impulse is to help and pilots have the tools to do a tremendous amount of good in crisis situations but they can also do a lot of...
FAA ADS-B Rebate Window Closing When the FAA set aside ten million dollars to help general aviation pilots comply with the ADS-B Out 2020 mandate, few predicted that...
Lilium Raises $90 Million For Electric VTOL Lilium, a start-up aviation company based in Munich, announced on Thursday they have raised $90 million in investment to develop the...
Will Dynon's Skyview HDX Be A Market Shifter? The stars may be aligned for a robust market in glass panel refurbs. Some owners absolutely lust after EFIS, but don't want to pay 400...
Voice Of Reno Optimistic About Future Danny Clisham has been calling the World Championship Air Races in Reno for more than 35 years and he's as excited about them now as he...
WAI Preps for Girls in Aviation Day More than 110 chapters of Women in Aviation International are gearing up for Girls in Aviation Day to be held Saturday, September 23....
Strega Wins Reno The highly modified P-51 Strega flown by James Consalvi edged longtime rival Steve Hinton Jr. in Voodoo, another Mustang, in the gold...
AirVenture: A Cynic Confronts Excellence If you skipped this year's AirVenture, you may have made a mistake. It was as good as these things get.
Video: Steve Hinton Jr. On Speed Record Steve Hinton Jr. set a record for the fastest speed recorded by a piston-powered aircraft over four, three-kilometer runs in early...
United Gives 747 Special Send-Off United Airlines will say goodbye to the Boeing 747 Nov. 7 with a special flight to Hawaii that commemorates its first use of the airliner...
P&W Hits Adaptive Fan Milestone Pratt & Whitney has completed testing on a proof of concept adaptive bypass variant of the F135 fighter engine. The adaptive three-stream...
In Case You Thought Airline Flying Was Always Safe, Consider 1958 It was one of several years in which gory accidents forced changes in the system. Today's feature offers an entertaining summary.
Irma's Big Test: Will There Be Less Damage This Time? Irma stormed ashore at Naples, Florida, on Sunday. Reports of damage are mixed and could that mean we're getting pretty prepared for big...
AVweb Classic: How Sensenich Makes Wooden Props Composite props may be the latest shiny object to make airplanes go, but most of them have wood cores, and the basic wooden prop is...
Seattle Avionics Announces Low-Cost Merlin ADS-B Receiver In a market flooded with higher-end ADS-B receivers, navigation app developer Seattle Avionics announced today the $250 Merlin portable...
NavWorx Resumes Shipping Its ADS600-B Systems After a contentious battle with the FAA over the design and certification specifications of the ADS-600-B system, NavWorx says it is now...
Will Dynon's Skyview HDX Be A Market Shifter? The stars may be aligned for a robust market in glass panel refurbs. Some owners absolutely lust after EFIS, but don't want to pay 400...
L3 NGT9000 ADS-B Product Tour L3 Aviation Products continues to advance its Lynx NGT9000 multifunction ADS-B transponder. In addition to ADS-B weather and traffic, the...
