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Talk about IFR holding patterns in a recurrent training setting and your time will most likely be spent discussing entries, maximum speeds and mandatory reports. There is a need created by the realities of the system for ATC to park you somewhere in the sky until it is time to move on. The reasons for […]

In Brainteaser Quiz #210 we invited readers to share stories of their favorite aviation getaways, real or fantasy. Money was no object, because it wasn’t ours. And because fantasies can get a little weird, we’ve expunged all names that might link back to a non-pilot spouse or employer suddenly realizing why you get that faraway […]

Houston was only an hour behind us, but the weather was turning out much worse than forecast. The ceilings were steadily lowering and the METAR updates said the few airports along our route were going from marginal to worse. A pop-up IFR clearance would have been great, but there was a little problem: the airplane […]

Earlier this month, the NTSB released findings on trends in general aviation accidents. The GA fatal rate, after an all time low of 1.12/100,000 hours in 2013 reversed its trend to 1.4. That’s the highest since 1998. The overall accident rate spiked slightly from 6.26 in 2013 to 6.74 in 2014. But do these numbers […]

In spring 2003, I was halfway through my flight training. My instructor and I were chatting about air traffic control. He’d just visited the local TRACON. From his description, I pictured a dark room filled with the intense chatter of men and women half-lit by radar scopes and blinking sci-fi lights. A few short years […]

MINERAL WELLS, TX (July 29, 2015) – Cool City Avionics, a manufacturer of low cost, professional-grade autopilots and stability augmentation systems, wishes to express its strong support for helicopter industry-proposed changes to FAA certification requirements for single-engine IFR. In June 2015, an Association and Industry White Paper was prepared, in cooperation with the Helicopter Association […]

The two-seat electric-powered airplane now in development by the Aero Electric Aircraft Corp. will have a flight duration up to three hours, CEO George Bye said at EAA AirVenture this week. The airplane will be certified under Part 21, the FAA’s rules for primary aircraft, which are limited to VFR flying (day and night) and […]

The German luggage company Rimowa, known worldwide for its grooved aluminum-body luggage, has resurrected the historic Junkers F13 airplane that was constructed with the same metal.The company has plans to build and certify it in Switzerland, followed by certification in the U.S. Rimowa has a replica on display this week at AirVenture and on Tuesday […]

You can fly into AirVenture using either VFR or IFR arrival procedures, but both require significant planning, familiarization with the published NOTAM, and a sharp scan of traffic. In this video, ride shotgun with AVweb news team members as they arrive and demonstrate how it’s done. view on YouTube

DENVER, July 16, 2015 -Today MYGOFLIGHT, maker of premium iPad and tablet gear for pilots, will conduct three seminars called Advanced iPad Use In-Flight – Connected Flight(TM) Edition sponsored by Jeppesen during EAA’s Airventure 2015 in Oshkosh. This seminar will show pilots how to integrate and use the iPad during taxi, departure, cruise, diversion, approach […]