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Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Thanks to all our contributors for a great batch of “POTW” entries! This is the most submissions we’ve had since August, and almost every one was a “final ten” contender. With all the great images, it took a little longer […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners The lazy days of summer may be behind us, but Eric Hutchins brings back pleasant memories with his winning “Picture of the Week.”  Congratulations, Eric – we’re sending you a brand-new AVweb baseball cap.  You can wear it yourself, or […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Californian Kendall Mauldin takes home top honors in this week’s “POTW” contest – with a SpaceShipOne photo we kinda wish we’d taken! Great job, Kendall – we’re sending you a nifty AVweb baseball cap as a token of our appreciation. […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners “Picture of the Week” celebrates another first today! As we were reviewing the top ten finalists, we discovered that our #1 and #2 selections were from two people with the same last name – and the same address! How could […]

________TRAINING The Cessna, The Sky … and the Cartoonist: Chapters Four and FiveJohn Ewing continues flight training with chapters on climbs, descents, and turns. But things are never easy when going “back to school” in the retired years of life, and our writer/cartoonist is flummoxed by more technical vocabulary and high-g-force turns. But he’s looking […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Lots of good “POTW” submissions this week, so we’re going to keep the chatter short and get straight to the gawking.  Congratulations to Eric Cobb, who takes home a spiffy new AVweb baseball cap for this week’s winning photo. Due […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners What does it take to beat seven gorgeous sunsets, six Red Knights, four adorable kids, three beautiful girls, two P-38s, and one natural wonder?  This week, it took a stunning in-cockpit photo from John Rippinger and Scott Sayre of the […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Hey, is everyone feeling all right?  Is there a pilot’s flu going around?  Did you all skip work this week to drive out to the Mojave and watch SpaceShipOne make its X-Prize run?  We have to ask because — well, […]

The rule does state that U.S. citizens need only to prove their status to be exempted from the TSA check, by showing a passport or other identification, which the flight school must keep on record for five years. But the TSA’s use of the term “candidate,” which the TSA defines as “an alien or other […]

________TRAINING The Cessna, The Sky … and the Cartoonist: Chapters Two and ThreeOur intrepid student aviator and artist, John Ewing, continues his flight training and is hit with academic work that challenges his semi-retired brain. Attitude flying, however, is a bit more intuitive, although we catch him making engine noises in a silent airplane. __________WHAT’S […]