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[Editor’s Note: Rick wrote this Survival Guide several years ago and, by popular demand, we’re reprinting it now with updates for 2007. Be sure to start with Part One.]In the first part of this series we focused on what you needed to know before you set out for Oshkosh. This second part focuses on what […]

[Editor’s Note: Rick wrote this Survival Guide several years ago and, by popular demand, we’re reprinting it now with updates for 2007.]The shards of the smashed piggy bank crunch as you reposition yourself while drawing lines on the sectionals spread out on the living-room floor. You are going to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2007. You’re working […]

As many of you know, I’ve owned, flown and maintained a Cessna T310R for the past 20 years, powered by a pair of Teledyne Continental Motors TSIO-520-BB engines. I’ve achieved remarkable longevity from the cylinders on these engines — 10 out of 12 are still originals with more than 4000 hours in service so far.But […]

The Air Transport Association (ATA), the airline lobby group that is currently pushing for aviation user fees, has taken another shot across general aviation’s bow. On Monday, it asked the FAA to “temporarily create additional airspace capacity by imposing proportional level ground delay programs” at Teterboro Airport (N.J.) and other “nearby airports” – in other […]

This article originally appeared in IFR Refresher, May 2006. If your flying is limited to Part 91, you may not realize that operators who fly for hire, like Part 135 and Part 121 carriers, must follow different rules when it comes to flying approaches.One of those is that a pilot flying an aircraft for hire […]

From the country where it’s considered polite to hurl your dinner plate at the wall once you’re done dining comes one of IAOPA’s most dedicated and passionate leaders. Yiouli Kalafati is a true poster-girl for GA. As president of AOPA-Hellas, she has been a driving force behind its successful bid to host next year’s biannual […]

Flight Service Stations I must be the only person in the country not affected by the FSS problems (AVWebFlash, Jun. 13). I’ve been using DUATS since its inception because it gave me the one thing FSS never could seem to provide: just the facts, M’am, just the facts. All I ever wanted was the weather […]

Liberty Aerospace has received certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for both VFR and IFR ratings of the Liberty XL2, the company announced on Wednesday. The company now plans to develop new overseas markets. As Libertys global expansion continues I am confident that our aircrafts unique mix of economy, affordability and modern technology […]

Flight Service Stations I have been a pilot weather briefer for almost 20 years — four years in Missoula, Mont., and the last 15 here in McMinnville, Oreg. I take pride in the experience and knowledge-base I have gained over the span and in the fact that I can convey to pilots what they need […]

This article originally appeared in Aviation Safety, Apr. 2005. The first few hundred hours of any pilot’s flying career are the ones involving the greatest accumulation of experience and judgment. In some ways, it’s a miracle any of us survive this period; in other ways, these first few hours of flying time are both necessary […]