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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 […]

You may recall an iconic photo that circulated a few years, a low-angle aerial shot depicting a freeway choked with traffic at a dead standstill. At the front of that bottleneck was a small fleet of emergency vehicles circled wagon-like around an EMS helo, strobes flashing, rotor spinning.The viewer couldn’t help but perceive the scene […]

The FAA is set to propose a broad set of rules intended to improve the safety of helicopter operations that would require additional equipment, training and communications, bring changes to flight rules, and much more. The FAA’s proposals cover air ambulance, commercial helicopter, Part 91 and Part 135 helicopter operations. They attempt to specifically reduce […]