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____________BRAINTEASERS Quiz #84 — Special VFRWant to feel special inside controlled airspace? Request a Special VFR clearance. While your VFR buddies scratch their headsets, you’ll scud-run with FAA approval. Let’s review the SVFR rules to see how special you really are.

Old Hack, our resident curmudgeon, caught me in the Pilot’s Lounge, here at the virtual airport, the other morning. He plopped down in one of the big, old, worn recliners, scowled at me and said, “Hey, I’m the one who’s supposed to look pissed off at the world. If you look more angry at things […]

What will really change on the morning of Sept. 1, when the new Sport-Pilot/Light Sport Aircraft rules take effect? The one thing we could find, with help from EAA info analyst Charlie Becker in the AirVenture Sport Pilot tent, is this: If you want to fly a standard-category aircraft that qualifies as a light-sport aircraft, […]

Loan guarantees from the Canadian government have ensured the long-awaited (and frustrated) certification of the Seawind amphibian can go ahead, possibly as early as next year. Company President Dick Silva told a news conference at Air Venture that the money enabled the Quebec-based firm to overcome some technical certification issues regarding the materials and bonding […]

Recently while flying over central Missouri, I overheard a controller responding to a request for VFR Flight Following… Controller: …And your type aircraft? Pilot: Beech Dutchess, Low wing, twin-engine, white and blue. Controller: You’re all a quarter-inch long and green to me.

https://avweb.com/avmail/ Reader mail this week about Sport Pilot and AVweb’s coverage of it, skydiving photos, potential closure of the Hudson River VFR corridor and much more.

Sport Pilot Praise and Problems This is just a quick note to say thanks for your prompt and positive coverage of the Sport Pilot/Light-Sport Aircraft rule (NewsWire, July 22).We appreciate your even-handed, yet entertaining style. I check your page daily (or oftener) for the latest and greatest.Stop by for a visit to the Sport Pilot […]

Pilots who’ve done it say there’s no better way to see New York City but a local senator wants to close the so-called Hudson River Corridor to GA. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) claims New York City is being shortchanged on security by the existence of the uncontrolled VFR corridor and he believes the Big Apple […]

Welcome back class. I don’t think there is any other subject that I’ve tried to cover that has created as much confusion as this subject. I know there isn’t another that has been misconstrued as much. It’s been a real eye-opener to see some of the interpretations springing from my articles. Let’s take another whack […]

SAI is actively working to start production of the two-place Symphony 160, dealing with vendors and suppliers, and hiring manufacturing staff, the company said in a news release Tuesday. Development work has begun again on the Symphony 135D, a two-place 135-hp diesel, and the four-place Symphony 250. According to Costanzo, the 135D should be certified […]