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American Legend Aircraft Company said on Thursday it is adding a new model, the Super Legend, to its Legend Cub two-place sport aircraft line. The Super Legend comes with the Lycoming 233 Series lightweight engine, a Super Cub-style pressure cowling, and a classic Super Cub paint scheme. With a base weight of just about 845 […]

Submit a Photo |Rules |Tips |Questions |Past Winners Each week, we go through dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of reader-submitted photos and pick the very best to share with you on Thursday mornings – and one photo that stands above the others is awarded an AVweb baseball cap as our “Picture of the Week.” Want to […]

The legal dispute between FlightPrep and RunwayFinder over the latter’s alleged patent infringement continues to move forward but there have been a couple of twists and turns. According to the most recent post to RunwayFinder’s website, owner Dave Parsons has filed a dismissal notice in the Oregon court where the suit was launched, alleging the […]

It’s never a good day when the first e-mail you open has “I’ve got a bone to pick with you” in the header. But that’s what reader Louis Ridley sent me last week. Why, he asked, had we buried the Sen. James Inhofe story? Actually, we hadn’t buried it; it just dropped off the radar […]

I’ve never been much of a believer in filing VFR flight plans and, for reasons I’ll get to in a moment, I’m still not. I think they often cause more trouble than they are designed to prevent and end up wasting everyone’s time and energy. And yet…I still teach students to use them because as […]

Original, Exclusive Videos from AVweb |Reader-Submitted & Viral Videos You can’t legally fly an NDB approach in the clouds using a GPS unless it says “or GPS” in the title. But there’s nothing that says you can’t practice VFR what it’s like to fly an approach with a bearing pointer and no moving maps. Come […]

The FAA dismissed two pilots’ allegations related to a fatal helicopter crash in 2008 and failed to report them to the NTSB, investigators said during a safety board meeting on Tuesday. The pilots wrote to the FAA two months after the crash and said the company that leased the firefighting helicopter to the Forest Service […]

Russia has restructured its airspace in a move that’s bound to foster more GA activity in the country. Gone is the requirement to submit a detailed flight plan at least 24 hours in advance. Flight notification can now be done an hour in advance online. The changes were announced in April and went into effect […]

Each week, we run a sampling of the letters received to our editorial inbox here in AVmail. One letter that’s particularly relevant, informative, or otherwise compelling will headline this section as our “Letter of the Week,” and we’ll send the author an official AVweb baseball cap as a “thank you” for interacting with us (and […]

Overheard flying into Reno for the air races this year, about a TFR for a fire about 100 miles east of the city: Cessna Pilot to Oakland Center:“Cessna XXX checking in. VFR 8,500.” Oakland Center:“Be advised your present route will take you into a TFR about 20 miles ahead of you.” Cessna Pilot:“O.K. We’re looking […]