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COLUMNS Say Again? #66: Common PhraseologyBack to basics this month. AVweb’s Don Brown has some reminders on how (and why) common phraseology is not as good as clear phraseology.

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A short item in Monday’s AVweb news about a proposed Airworthiness Directive affecting some Cessna aircraft should have referred to seat backs, not seat tracks.

In the span of just a few years, NEXRAD weather datalinked to the cockpit has become all but standard equipment. But has it displaced the previous standard in storm avoidance, spherics devices such as Stormscope and Strike Finder? For an upcoming issue, our sister publication, Aviation Consumer, is preparing an article comparing the two technologies. […]

We’ve written before about snakes on a plane, and bees, too, but with this week’s recall of 4.1 million Dell laptop batteries because they might suddenly burst into flame — the biggest such recall ever — pilots may be wondering if it’s a good idea to allow laptops on a plane. Last month, an NTSB […]

The powers that be in Nacogdoches, Texas, have decided to look a gift parachute in the mouth, and told the local sheriff to keep his Buckeye Dream Machine on the ground, at least for now. The sheriff got the powered ‘chute for free last month from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, funded by a federal […]

The Flight of Discovery will go on, its organizers say, despite the loss of three members of the expedition on Sunday morning, when their Robinson R44 helicopter went down off the foggy Oregon coast. Two helicopters were flying together from Washington state, with 100-foot ceilings and about a half-mile visibility reported. The pilot of the […]

No, not Mr. Spock’s home planet, but the giant Avro Vulcan delta-winged bomber, formerly of Britain’s Royal Air Force. Despite widespread support and some 2.75 million already spent, the restoration of the retired airplane is “on the brink of failure,” Robert Pleming wrote to AVweb on Monday. The impressive-looking aircraft was one of three British […]