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Garmin issued a service alert on Wednesday warning users of some of its brand-new GNS 430 and GNS 430A units not to use them for IFR operations. It was the company’s second service alert this month to include those units. The panel-mounted units have a problem that could cause the unit to trip the aircraft […]

COLUMNS From The CFI #6: Examiners Are Human, Too!Hard to imagine, but some people actually want to be the butt of insults and fear-inspiration — and (really) make a contribution to aviation by becoming a Designated Pilot Examiner. They’re less of an FAA enforcement officer and more of a souped-up flight instructor, as AVweb’s Linda […]

AVmail: March 28, 2005Reader mail this week about control tower operations, the airline pilot retirement age, ATC staffing shortfalls and much more.

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BRAINTEASERS Quiz #92 — Load Factors and FictionsIf the airplane has four seats, you can cram in four people, right? Perhaps not. The PIC must not only figure how much weight is being carried but how that load affects safety. Are you balanced?

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In one of the creepier stories about activities aloft to come along in a while, a pilot for Garuda Indonesia was arrested last week and charged in the death of a human-rights activist who was poisoned with arsenic while on a flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam last September. If convicted, the pilot could face the […]

Ken Hyde and his Wright Experience team have found a home for their third (and last) Wright 1903 Flyer reproduction, at the Seattle Museum of Flight. The Flyer is one of two sister ships to the one that flew at the celebration of the Centennial of Flight in 2003, in North Carolina. The Centennial airplane […]