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Sometimes the rules are there for a reason … as the crew of a Citation CJ2 discovered when they flew to Atlantic City’s Bader Field on Sunday afternoon, made one aborted approach, circled around to try for the longer runway, then ran off the runway’s end and plunged into the (luckily) shallow waters that (practically) […]

With budget cuts, the threat of looming mass retirements and an ever-growing air traffic system, attention is drawn to how the skills of an air traffic controller measure up when it comes to safety in the skies. Multiple court cases highlight the critical nature of controller/pilot communications, and at least one has saddled controllers with […]

Aviation is not only an important part of the U.S. economy, it’s critical to the growth of the economy as whole, according to a new report released last week by the FAA’s Management Advisory Council. “Part of the productivity of virtually every sector of the U.S. economy depends on the productivity of aviation,” the report […]

AVweb users can now offer their aircraft, parts, and accessories for sale on General Aviation’s most popular web site — with our new and improved Classified Ads section. To better qualify sellers and limit the number of non-aviation products on AVweb, we’ve instituted a nominal fee for each listing. Discover our new Classified section and […]

AVmail: May 16, 2005Reader mail this week about ATC privatization and clarified rules about homebuilts, and a lot of controversy about the plane that caused the evacuation of the Capitol.

BRAINTEASERS Quiz #94 — Call Me A TaxiYou may think you understood ATC’s instructions, but what you thought you heard might not be what the air traffic controller meant to say. Confused? Then verify your clearance in this quiz before you taxi.

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A story in Monday’s NewsWire unintentionally threw a scare into thousands of homebuilt pilots who quite legally fly their aircraft and will continue to do so without the prying eyes of the FAA determining whether they are capable. As the story noted, the FAA wants to make sure that those flying passengers in their homebuilts […]