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AVMAIL AVmail: Nov. 6, 2006Reader mail this week about 100LL replacements, user fees, ATC asleep and more.

COLUMNS The Pilot’s Lounge #106: Why Do Smart People Bend Airplanes? It’s easy to say that a person who got in an airplane accident was not as smart, well-trained, or endowed with the right stuff as other pilots. A little too easy, in fact. And research shows it’s wrong, as AVweb‘s Rick Durden discusses this […]

AVweb posts audio news on Mondays, plus a new in-depth interview each Friday. In Friday’s podcast, you’ll find a one-on-one interview with Spectrum Aeronautical chairman Linden Blue. And AVweb’s podcast index includes interviews with Adam Aircraft chairman Rick Adam and New Piper CEO Jim Bass, recorded live at the recent NBAA Convention in Orlando. And […]

HAVE YOU SIGNED UP yet for AVwebs NO-COST twice monthly Business AVflash? Reporting on breaking news, Business AVflash also focuses on the companies, the products and the industry leaders that make headlines in the Business of Aviation. Business AVflash is a must read. Watch for a Business AVflash regular feature, TSA WATCH: GA IN THE […]

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Not going to AOPA Expo this week? Don’t worry, AVweb is, and we’ll be delivering the latest news from the show to your inbox, starting with the regular Thursday AVwebFlash on the opening day of AOPA Expo. Then check your e-mail inbox on Friday and Saturday morning for special issues written and produced from the […]

First Officer James Polehinke, the lone survivor of the Comair Flight 5191 crash, is among those named in a lawsuit filed on behalf of the family of a Florida man who died in the crash. In a news release, lawyer Stephen Marks, who has won a number of multimillion-dollar settlements in airplane crash suits, said […]

The future of airspace management might start in Cleveland. Sensis Corporation, in partnership with federal and local governments, is installing equipment at NASAs John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland that will link three local airports to a system that will include, among other things, 4D trajectories and virtual air traffic control towers. Its all […]

The National Weather Service Employees Organization (NWSEO) says it will take legal action against the FAAs plan to eliminate on-site weather forecasters at 21 Air Route Traffic Control Centers. In a letter to the agency, Richard J. Hirn, the NWSEOs general counsel, says the FAAs plan to centralize the weather-forecasting operation in a single, contracted-out […]

In what it calls a safety admonition, the FAA is reminding aircraft mechanics to pay special attention to the exhaust and heater systems on light planes at this time of year. Its also a good idea to check and/or replace the carbon monoxide detector in your plane. (You do have one, right?) Most small aircraft […]