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COLUMNS The Savvy Aviator #21: Checking The OilThe oil in your engine lubricates, cleans and cools. If you pay attention, it also provides some of the best tools available for monitoring the health of your powerplant. ___________SKYWRITINGS Chicken WingsThe cartoon adventures of Chuck and the rest of the Roost-Air FBO continue this week as gives […]

You probably don’t know who Bob Chambers is, but if you’re one of the thousands of pilots who have watched Rod Machado’s Defensive Flying video then you’ve heard Chamber’s voice. Defensive Flying includes a recording of two MU-2 pilots and ATC as they suffer a double engine failure in IMC over the mountains of British […]

Weather may be the single biggest factor in the runway overrun of an Air France A340 at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Tuesday. “It was definitely an extreme storm, something we haven’t seen in a long time,” Brian Lackey, vice president of operations for the Greater Toronto Airport Authority, told reporters Wednesday. “As we were […]

It will come as no surprise to anyone who was there that EAA AirVenture was bigger and busier this year than it has been in recent years. After a few years of modest (but nonetheless unsettling) declines, this year’s big show boasted a 7-percent increase in attendance to about 700,000, according to figures supplied by […]

It looks like the FAA is going to approve Chicago Mayor Richard Daley’s controversial plan to expand O’Hare International Airport (and pave over a couple of small towns and a pioneer cemetery). The FAA formally endorsed the $15 billion to $20 billion project as the most viable way to relieve the chokepoint in Chicago, which […]

Although it’s not a common arrangement, Honda was apparently a little hasty in suggesting its wing-pylon-mounted engines are groundbreaking. Michimasa Fujino, the chief engineer on the project, told the crowd at the aircraft’s first public appearance at EAA AirVenture that conventional aerodynamic wisdom dictates engines should be mounted under the wings or on the fuselage. […]

The FAA has fired nine air traffic controllers at the volatile New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) for allegedly failing to admit that they’d sought treatment for stress. It’s the latest chapter in a simmering (sometimes boiling) dispute over the function of the facility, which the FAA claims was effectively taken over by the […]

COLUMNS CEO of the Cockpit #47: Pilots Have Never ChangedSure, you’ve heard it all before: What with “cockpit resource management” and deregulation, being an airline pilot today is nothing like it was 50 years ago. Wrong. AVweb’s CEO of the Cockpit just watched two flying films from the 1950s and he saw himself and his […]