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When in doubt, spell it out. The NTSB hopes to make it easier for pilots flying into Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to land in the right spot by urging the FAA to clearly mark a taxiway that has been accidentally used as a runway several times in the last few years. In the most recent incident […]

_______COLUMNS Say Again? #38: ATC 104 – VFR High TimeStudent and low-time pilots are expected to stumble a bit on the radio. But if you’re a high-time pilot flying VFR, your bad habits (perhaps learned by imitating a smooth-talking jet jock) might be causing trouble for controllers and other pilots. AVweb’s Don Brown reminds you […]

_______COLUMNS Say Again? #37: VFR In A VacuumHave you been turned down lately when you asked ATC for VFR advisories? Expect it to happen more and more often, especially when you and other pilots don’t file a correct flight plan or use the proper phraseology. AVweb’s Don Brown points out how the impending controller shortage […]

Saturday (according to a TFR issued May 20) saw the airspace around Austin (Texas) Bergstrom International Airport restricted for GA traffic and open for the president … who showed up but then skipped the event he was in town to see. Alas, the Temporary Flight Restriction, which read in part, “AIRCRAFT FLIGHT OPERATIONS ARE PROHIBITED […]

To the delight of the multitudes, spring has arrived in the higher latitudes. Here in the pilot’s lounge at the virtual airport, Old Hack showed up and growled proudly to the assemblage that he had survived another winter and only fired up the furnace seven times. He then made scurrilous comments about some of our […]

The National Transportation Safety Board has released information that provides disturbing details of the fatal crash of a Hawker Hunter T MK 7 being ferried last July 22 for the Northern Lights Aerobatic team. Pilot Thomas Benton Delashaw of Conroe, Texas, was killed less than a mile from the runway after taking off from the […]

Must Be Those Cute Chutes… While last week’s first-quarter production numbers showed that GA manufacturing is creeping out of its recent doldrums (though still far from its peak), the data also revealed some subtle shifts taking place in the industry. “This is a historic day for Cirrus,” company spokesman John Bingham told the Duluth News […]

Pilots using busy Teterboro Airport (TEB) in New Jersey are used to sharing the crowded airspace with other pilots — but with Ferris-wheel riders? A major amusement park proposed for an area just south of TEB would include a 400-foot-tall Ferris wheel that would encroach more than 100 feet into the navigable airspace 11,000 feet […]

Trying to guess what Mother Nature is going to do is risky business. I had to wait three weeks to get my yard aerated because it wouldn’t stop raining. I finally got it done, threw down a bunch of grass seed and I bet it hasn’t rained an inch in the month since.Mother Nature will […]

_________ BRAINTEASERS Quiz #80 — Radar ContactDon’t you love that cozy feeling you get when an air traffic controller whispers, “Radar contact,” in your headset? But what service attaches to these words? Whether IFR or VFR it helps to know your radar vs. non-radar terms and expectations.