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It’s a classic, if sad, tale of airports in America: Livermore Municipal Airport in northern California, about an hour east of San Francisco, was built in the wide-open spaces of the valley back in 1965. Popular with pilots, the airport today is bursting at the seams, with 180 names on a waiting list for hangar […]

With some recent accidents and a less-than-spotless safety record for Cirrus, training has become a front-burner issue, with all those new airplanes coming into the market with advanced avionics and systems. The FAA’s answer to these changes is called FITS, for FAA/Industry Training Standards, and a curriculum based on the SR22 was its first project. […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Last week, we had fewer-than-usual submissions to our “Picture of the Week” contest and concluded that all our readers must have been out of town for Sun ‘n Fun.  Looks like we were right!  This week, we’re flooded with your […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Last week’s Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In preempted our usual reader-submitted “Picture of the Week.”  Lots of AVweb readers must have been at the Fly-In, because our submissions actually dropped down to a manageable level for the first time in 2004.  […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners AVweb readers keep sending us terrific photos from their airborne adventures — and we keep publishing them here.  If you thought last week’s photos were great, wait until to you see the photo Jamie Lawrence of Maui Helicopters submitted this […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Beautiful landscapes, historical aircraft, exciting aerobatics – just some of the things you won’t see in this week’s “Picture of the Week.” Why? Because we had too many good photos to squeeze them all in! And if you’re enticed by […]

The old debate over the effect of cellphones on airplanes is back in play, as investigators in New Zealand face questions about a fatal accident last June, during which a cellphone was apparently turned on in the cockpit. Eight people died when a Piper Chieftain crashed just over a mile from the runway at Christchurch […]

As Spring Gets Everyone Flying… Welcome to migration season. The birds are out there — even (and in some cases, especially) after dark. The conflict between aircraft and birds is a real and growing problem — about 60,000 bird strikes to U.S. aircraft were reported to the FAA from 1990 to 2003, and perhaps four […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Welcome back to “Picture of the Week,” where AVweb readers take over the site to share their amateur aviation photos.  This week’s photos were a bumper crop, and we had to leave several amazing shots on the cutting-room floor.  (If […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Breath-taking images continue to roll into AVweb headquarters by the dozen!  It’s getting harder and harder to pick a winner, but these nifty AVweb ball caps aren’t going to give themselves away — so it’s nose to the grindstone, looking […]