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Warbirds Collide Corsair Pilot Critical EAA AirVenture officials do what they can to make their event safe, thencross their fingers and pray for luck. That luck ran low Thursday afternoon asthe warbirds were taking to the air for the daily airshow. As a formation ofBearcats and Corsairs started their takeoff roll, something went terribly wrong.Thousands […]

“Sayyour altitude?” No other three-word snippet of ATC phraseology strikes such fear into the heart of apilot. You know you’re in radar contact, that you’re squawking Mode C, that yourtransponder reply light is bright enough to read by, and that the controller knowsperfectly well what your altitude is. “Say your altitude?” is ATC rhetoric for”both […]

Inmy roles as a frequent contributor to AVweb’s maintenance section, and as amember of the technical staff of the Cessna PilotsAssociation, I spend a good deal of time helping other aircraft owners totroubleshoot and fix problems with their airplanes. From time to time, however, I have todeal with glitches on my own airplane. A good […]

This report summarizes what we know about nine different handheldaviation GPS receivers that are now available. In an attempt to compare competitivemodels, we’ve divided the field into three subgroups. Our summary and recommendationsappear at the end. Prices shown are manufacturers’ “Minimum Advertised Prices” which is theprice that most mailorder dealers advertise. Change History: GPS Without […]

The handheld GPS market has been eerily quiet lately.During 1996 and 1997, it seemed as if a new aviation handheld was being announced everyfew months, as manufacturers jockied for position to out-feature and under-price thecompetition. But Sun ‘n Fun 1998 saw only one new product announcement in thiscategory: the Lowrance AirMap 100. During the year […]

When Isubmitted my original column on the subject of hazardous attitudes,AVweb‘s editor told me that it was my bestcolumn ever. That may or may not be an accurate statement, but in any event my reply wasthat I would be willing to wager that the column would draw less reader response thanothers I have written would. […]

Yes, You Do Need To Be Concerned And, No, TheyAren’t Here To Help This Time The Pilot’s Lounge has been jumping all month. On thepropitious date of April Fool’s Day, our Friendly Aviation Administration published itsinterpretation of FAR 91.123 (a) and (b). Those regulations outline the responsibility ofthe pilot to comply with air traffic control […]

History of Flight On January 13, 1998, about 0810 central standard time, a Gates Learjet 25B, N627WS,impacted terrain approximately 2 nautical miles (nm) east of the runway 26 threshold atGeorge Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), Houston, Texas, during an instrument landingsystem (ILS) approach. (All times in this report are central standard time, based on a24-hour clock.) […]

It was one of those goodevenings in the Pilot’s Lounge. Lots of flying during the day, the weather let us knowspring was truly coming and quite a few folks stuck around for coffee as the day wounddown. The conversation worked its way around to volunteer flying as we have a few pilotswho volunteer their time […]

A couple of months ago, Ihad Avionics West replace some of the avionics in my 1979Cessna T310R. In particular, I changed out my decade-old Loran for a II Morrow GX50approach-certified GPS. At the same time, I yanked out the airplane’s original-equipmenthorizontal situation indicator – an old vacuum-driven Century NSD-360 – and installedthe new Sandel Avionics […]