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I‘ve been a fan of Garmin‘s GPSs ever since I spent several hundred hours teaching people how to fly the Cirrus SR20 and SR22, which have dual Garmin GPSs as standard equipment. But I learned early on that having a super-charged piece of avionics is not all peaches and cream. There’s a steep learning curve, […]

We were preparing to push back in Kansas City and we were heavy. The hot weather wasn’t helping the takeoff figures much either.Full up on passengers, cargo and fuel, the gate agent was in the passenger cabin counting babies. Your average passenger is calculated at about 170 pounds (if I remember my ATP written questions […]

An Oregon pilot made sure American troops knew the Sun ‘n Fun crowd was thinking about them. Dean Zinter, of Portland, collected signatures on two signs at the Florida fly-in’s warbird area. Thousands of people added their names to the signs, which will be sent to a Marine aviation unit in the United Arab Emirates… […]

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Continental Crankshaft Failure Just to let you know we have had a crankshaft failure on a Continental IO-520 factory rebuild with 230 hours on the engine. This could be something to watch as we wait results from Continental on cause.Dan KlaesBettles Air Chicago VFR Corridor I’m sure that the FAA is not happy about being […]

Midweek Opening Thins Crowds If we had to pick one word to describe the mood at Sun ‘n Fun’s opening day on Wednesday, April 2, it would be: tentative. What with war jitters and a soft economy looming, we didnt expect to see record crowds and we generally didn’t. A couple of exhibitors told us […]

This article appeared in the January 2002 edition of Aviation Safety and is reprinted here by permission. Aircraft components are tested and retested. Manufacturers are subjected to inspection, airplanes are inspected, mechanics are inspected. The goal: Nothing mechanical should go wrong without plenty of warning.There is one part that bucks that trend. When called on, […]

Hijack Transponder Rule Panned So, instead of labelling the proposed new transponder’s “panic” buttons in the normal way, perhaps they should label them the “Please shoot me down” button. Only a suicidal pilot these days would deliberately squawk a “hijack” code, right? George Horn US Military May Degrade GPS Signal This article indicates that the […]

No doubt about it, pilots are a special breed.And after a day of reading accident reports — which I do without fail at least once a month — I sometimes suffer from the impression that they’re highly motivated, well-trained, steely-eyed idiots. I’ll concede that this is a cynical, over-the-top generalization but when you read about […]

Chicago Gets A TFR Of Its Own… …Alphabets Are Angry, But Daley Is Delighted EAA Executive Vice President Bob Warner said, “Department of Homeland Security [DHS] officials had stated that they would not introduce more widespread restrictions unless intelligence points to a specific target or credible threat. We call on the FAA and DHS to […]