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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.

On the far side of the field, Ron Karwacky sits in the sun, sheltered from the wind by the fuselage of his polished aluminum 1952 Cessna 195. “I soloed in this airplane,” he says. He bought the plane for $15,000 in 1983 and recruited a few friends to help with the restoration work. The beefy […]

Cirrus officials are also hesitant to speculate on the factors leading up to the Canadian mishap or a subsequent chute deployment (this time on an SR22) two days later in Florida. Interviewed by AVweb at Sun ‘n Fun, Cirrus spokesman Randy Bolinger said that in both cases the aircraft have to be examined before any […]

The proposed rule — one of the most complex in FAA history — would establish a new sport pilot license with a minimum of 20 hours of flight training, use of any state driver’s license for medical qualification, and day VFR flying with one passenger or solo. Sport pilots could be endorsed to fly any […]

Cessna Aircraft Company announced earlier this month two upgrades to the forthcoming Citation CJ3 model: an improved standard-equipment package and increased payload. According to the company, all Citation CJ3s will now come equipped with a standard FMS performance database making takeoff and landing performance data more readily accessible, while V-speeds will be calculated and posted […]

Another country, another study, the same results. Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) recently completed an analysis of fatal general aviation accidents over a 10-year period and has come up with findings essentially similar to other studies done on the subject. The vast majority of fatal accidents are caused by pilots, not hardware, and 78 […]

Once again it’s time for me to take a trip down the road to unpopularity and write an article about a subject we’d rather not talk about. I never have been able to leave well enough alone. It’s probably the reason I don’t get invited to dinner more often than I do. I like to […]