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COLUMN INDEX CEO of the Cockpit #66: Night Flight, Direct RomeThe amazing art and science of navigating an airliner didn’t always dwell in the clicking CPU of a black box. Even AVweb’s CEO of the Cockpit sometimes has to fly IFR — I Follow Roads.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University on Thursday announced students will return to classes on Jan. 16 at its Daytona Beach campus, following Christmas Day tornadoes that destroyed or severely damaged a number of aircraft, leveled a maintenance hangar and rendered unusable the main administration building. All the aircraft lost to the storm have been replaced “with others […]

A senior officer at a key strategic bomber base says he hopes the Army can stop using his personnel as cannon fodder and let them concentrate on their real job of “putting bombs on target from B-1s.” In a commentary that appeared in Air Combat Command’s Web newsletter on Wednesday, Lt. Col. Gerald Goodfellow of […]

Flight service specialists whose jobs were outsourced or eliminated when Lockheed Martin won the contract to take over the FSS system will get their day in court after all. According to the Federal Times, on Jan. 8, U.S. District Court Judge Ronnie Roberts denied the Department of Transportation’s application for dismissal of the case, ruling […]

Your airplane will have to be equipped with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) gear by 2020 to have full access to the National Airspace System. According to Flight International, Nicholas Sabatini, the FAAs associate director for flight safety, told an agency workshop last week that the FAA will soon issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that […]

American Airlines says it will apologize to 138 passengers who spent nine hours stuck on the ground in Austin and ended up with overflowing toilets, no water to drink and only pretzels to eat. And the ordeal could have lasted even longer if the captain of the crammed MD-80 hadnt defied company orders and taxied […]

Carter Aviation Technologies says it has developed a gyrocopter that will land and take off vertically. The company says the gyro, based on a commercially available kit-built aircraft, will evolve into the Personal Aerial Vehicle (PAV) the world has been waiting for. We feel the [gyro] can now visually demonstrate that the age of true […]

A review of audiotapes and computer records from the Gillespie Tower and Southern California Terminal Radar Control Center shows controllers failed to warn the pilots of two Cessnas of a potential collision even though the alarms sounded and displayed visual warnings for 51 seconds before the planes collided over La Mesa, Calif. All three occupants […]

Podcast Index |How to Listen |Subscribe Via RSS AVweb caught up with Maule Air chief engineer Mikel “Mike” Boorom at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo this week in Sebring, Florida. While the family-owned company didn’t show up with a light sport aircraft at the show, it does have intentions to enter this growing market segment. […]

AVweb posts audio news on Mondays, plus a new in-depth interview each Friday. In last Friday’s podcast, you’ll find an interview with Professsional Aviation Maintenance Association president Brian Finnegan. aviation forecaster Richard Aboulafia. And AVweb’s podcast index includes interviews with aviation forecaster Richard Aboulafia; NORAD; Bill Lear, Jr.; NATA President Jim Coyne; Eclipse Aviation’s Vern […]