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COLUMNS Say Again? #55: What I Want for ChristmasThis Christmas, AVweb’s Don Brown would like a few things to make his job better. Many of them are things that pilots already have, but that doesn’t make it any easier to get them for Don. _________INSURANCE The Unappreciated & Ill-Defined Aircraft Maintenance LogMaintenance logs are required […]

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The 15-minute flight between Vancouver, B.C., and Nanaimo (yes, it’s where the dessert bar was invented) is one of the most beautiful anywhere but Marc Tacchi may have had enough of it by now. The cargo pilot has made the trip over the islands and bays of Georgia Strait more than 100 times in the […]

Airframe ice may have caused the crash of a Cessna Caravan in the Canadian province of Manitoba last week, possibly the first such accident since the FAA issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) last March requiring a “tactile inspection” of Caravan flight surfaces in potential icing conditions before takeoff. It’s speculated that pilot Nancy Chase-Allan, 49, […]

Almost ten years after an electrical fault is suspected to have caused the center tank of a TWA Boeing 747 to explode off New York (killing 230 people), the FAA has come up with a new set of proposed regulations aimed at ensuring (encouraging) airlines and manufacturers to better look after the lifeblood of their […]

Well, you know the airspace is getting crowded when the reliever airport needs a reliever airport. The New York Port Authority is trying to figure out how to get some of the 550 mostly corporate flights per day that operate from Teterboro Airport (TEB) to use Stewart International, a quieter but fully equipped former Air […]

The FAA has issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) on a certain make of connecting rod found in about 2,800 Lycoming 360- and 540-series engines in service in the U.S. The NPRM covers engines that have had certain ECi connecting rods installed as part of a repair or overhaul. The FAA determined that […]

The FAA is proposing that there be no more installations of Mode C transponders in Part 135 aircraft after March 1, 2007, and that all transponder replacements after that date be with Mode S devices. The agency issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on Oct. 7 saying that exemptions to the rules requiring all […]

A couple of last-ditch efforts by legislators and the union representing flight service specialists failed to stop the takeover of the FSS system by Lockheed Martin last week and the company says things went smoothly. But, then, all that changed was the nameplate on the door. Dire predictions on the fate of the system, after […]