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If you haven’t read this recent decision (PDF) on a lawsuit filed against Cirrus, it’s definitely worth a 15-minute scan. The court’s opinion makes several interesting points, but I found two particularly compelling. In a nutshell, Minnesota’s Court of Appeals reversed a 2009 judgment which required Cirrus to pay $14.5 million in damages to the […]

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has overturned a 2009 ruling that ordered Cirrus to pay $14.5 million to the families of two SR22 crash victims based on the assertion that Cirrus failed to properly train them. The new ruling found that there was “no support in the law” for the notion that it was Cirrus’ […]

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 […]

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 […]

Despite a diligent search, I am unable to find a video record of the look on Randy Babbitt’s face when he learned that one of his controllers thought it a good idea to request a little impromptu formation flying between a Southwest 737 and Cirrus gone quiet near Jacksonville this week. But I imagine he […]

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 […]