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In Monday’s “On The Fly,” an item about an Eaglet in Kansas City looking for a new home contained a link to Marty Reichelt’s Eaglet Web page. While his airplane is indeed an Eaglet, it is not the specific one mentioned in the item. AVweb apologizes for any confusion this might have caused.

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 aviation forecaster Richard Aboulafia. And AVweb’s podcast index includes interviews with NORAD; Bill Lear, Jr.; NATA President Jim Coyne; Eclipse Aviation’s Vern Raburn; Honda Aircraft’s Jeffrey Smith; Cirrus Design cofounder and CEO Alan […]

The “inadequate design and function” of the Minimum Safe Altitude Warning System in an FAA airport tower was cited as a contributing factor by the NTSB in its final report on the fatal crash of a Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 in Colorado in August 2005. The approach controller handed off the flight to the tower when it […]

Around the world, 1,292 people died in plane crashes in 2006, according to the Geneva-based Aircraft Crashes Record Office (ACRO). That was the lowest total since 1963, and a drop of 11 percent from the year before. The group keeps track of crashes involving commercial airplanes that seat at least six people, plus the crew. […]

With the new year, the administration of Iceland’s air traffic control system shifted to a new public corporation, Flugstodir ohf, and controllers are apparently not happy about the change, which affects salaries and pension funds. About 60 of the controllers said they would resign on Jan. 1, which an Iceland Express official said would have […]

“We must increase the number of student pilots,” says AOPA President Phil Boyer, in setting out his priorities for the coming year. “For our own survival, we must grow the pilot population … [or] general aviation will become here what it is in much of the rest of the world — something enjoyed only by […]

If a spaceship were to travel across the vast emptiness of space, enter Earth’s atmosphere, and then find itself hovering above the busy ramp at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, can you blame those astronauts for deciding to just turn around and leave, without even stopping to say hello? According to about a dozen United Air Lines […]

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 aviation forecaster Richard Aboulafia. And AVweb’s podcast index includes interviews with NORAD; Bill Lear, Jr.; NATA President Jim Coyne; Eclipse Aviation’s Vern Raburn; Honda Aircraft’s Jeffrey Smith; Cirrus Design cofounder and CEO Alan […]

AVMAIL AVmail: Jan. 1, 2007Reader mail this week about tornadoes, hearing aids and more.

COLUMNS The Pilot’s Lounge #108: For 2007 — Would You Fly In The Backseat With You?It’s a valid question: Do you trust your flying enough that, if you werewith someone else flying that way, you wouldn’t be uncomfortable? Honest pilots know they can’t stay safe unless they stay current, and Rick Durden’s New Year’s resolutions […]