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COLUMNS CEO of the Cockpit #53: Snow DayA snow day may be a day off from work or school, but if you’re an airline pilot it probably means delays and de-icing. AVweb’s Kevin Garrison has had many snow days — some of them even involved throwing snowballs in Florida. Audio ClipWhen it comes to ice […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Welcome to another edition of AVweb’s “Picture of the Week” – and to those of you who were traveling or otherwise engaged during the holidays, welcome back.  Now that 2006 is underway, submissions to our weekly photo contest have resumed […]

COLUMNS As the Beacon Turns #97: What’s Important — Now?Part of becoming a good pilot is knowing what to pay attention to at any particular time. There are plenty of things begging to be taken care of, but if you get distracted by the less important ones, your safety margin will plunmet. AVweb’s Michael Maya […]

As AVweb told you a couple of years ago, it’s possible to listen to AWOS broadcasts via a toll-free telephone number through a company called anyAWOS. The idea was to have a short commercial message from sponsors to pay for the system but it apparently hasn’t worked out that way. In a note on its […]

Airspace Struggles, East And West This afternoon, the FAA will hold the first of two public meetings on its proposal to make the ADIZ over the D.C. area into a permanent fixture. The proposal so far has drawn over 19,700 comments, so the agency is sure to have plenty of input. Today’s meeting, at the […]

____________WHAT’S NEW What’s New for January 2006This month AVweb’s survey of the latest products and services for pilots, mechanics and aircraft owners brings you portable oxygen, micro lights, an ultralight/LSA engine and more. _________INSURANCE Insuring the Professionally Managed Aircraft: A Candid Discussion of Fleet PoliciesIf you buy a plane and then put it on the […]

If your engine is on the list in the MSB supplement, Lycoming wants you to phone them (570-323-6181) or fax them (570-327-7160) to arrange its return. If your engine was rebuilt or had the crankshaft replaced after March 1, 1999, you need to hunt down the repair records and find the crankshaft serial number to […]

Failure Prompts Yet Another Proposed AD Lycoming is casting its recall net a little wider for engines with potentially faulty crankshafts and the FAA is reinforcing that with yet another proposed AD. Since 2002, Lycoming has replaced hundreds of cranks containing suspected metallurgical faults and now nearly 400 more have been added to the list. […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners 2006 has arrived, and “POTW” submission numbers are beginning to rise back into the sky.  Of course, we’ll need you tosubmit your own photos if we hope to stretch that metaphor into the upper atmosphere.  We can’t offer you an […]

COLUMNS Say Again? #58: ATC 207 — The ILSWant an easy and relatively safe way to get into an airport that’s IMC? Let your friendly air traffic controller give you vectors to the localizer and take that ILS right down to your port. But could there be some subtle tricks waiting to catch you when […]