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This Week’s Question |Last Week’s Results PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, in our continuing effort to get a better picture of how much time AVweb readers spend in the skies, we asked how many hours you’ve logged with an instructor over the last 12 months. Even allowing for simulator time, it seems it wasn’t much […]

Now, we all know that satellite-based systems will largely replace curve-of-the-earth-hampered ground stations and we all know that it will require some extra equipment on board. But is VFR going to be somehow limited or discouraged in the process? The GAO seems to think so. The Government Accountability Office recently released its latest in the […]

This article originally appeared in IFR Refresher, December 2004. IFR accidents typically fall into a few specific categories: Someone will get it wrong on climbout or approach, weather smites an unsuspecting pilot or a plane encounters something substantially more solid than a puffy cloud.Which makes the following accident interesting in what the pilot didn’t do. […]

A group of four airplanes — a Cessna 210, two 185s, and a Piper Twin Comanche — flew from Nome, Alaska, to the Russian Far East’s Provideniya Bay Airport on July 24, in the annual flight organized by the Alaska Airmen’s Association. The airmen have been working with Russian officials for over 10 years to […]

The status of airfields and navaids is uncertain in much of the region, and assessment teams are working to determine the status of facilities. Meanwhile, many aircraft are limited to flying VFR and only in daylight, though many have flown despite pounding rains. At the Port Blair airport in India, half of the 12,000-foot runway […]

A Story Not For The Squeamish… When AVweb reader Steve Biddle asked an innocent question about flying VFR above a cloud layer, he initiated a long and tangled quest through the annals of the FAA, the confusion of the GA masses, and the arcana of the U.S. airspace system. Today, almost two months after Biddle’s […]

About that VFR “course” I wanted to write last month: Would you like to guess why I wanted to write it? That’s right — because I’ve been working a sector full of them lately.I’ve aimed my previous columns about VFRs (mostly) at the low time pilots. This time, I want to talk to the rest […]

I wanted to make this month’s column another in the series of “courses” I’ve written over the last few years. The VFR season is upon us at Atlanta Center and the VFR traffic is climbing in direct relation to the mercury in the thermometer. As the summer progresses and the sky gets hazier, there will […]

Talk about your VFR landmarks. How about a 6,000-mile-long stone wall? The Great Wall, as it’s come to be known, is just one of the things mapmaker George P. Sempeles had to work with as he helped the Chinese begin the enormous task of creating VFR charts for the world’s third-largest country. Sempeles, of Winchester, […]

New Zealand’s accident investigation board has praised a helicopter pilot’s skill in saving her craft and crew after a collision with trees at night in rough terrain, despite her own injuries — but criticized her actions in getting into the accident in the first place. According to the report, Life Flight Trust BK-117 helicopter ZK-III […]