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Frederick Municipal Airport (FDK elevation: 303 feet) with a long-standing glider club on the field recently began tower operations. After the tower had been operating for about a week, on a relatively busy Saturday afternoon, I heard this exchange: Glider:“Frederick Tower, Glider XXX at 1,600 feet inbound for a right downwind for landing runway 12 […]
Australia has liberalized medicals for recreational and private pilots, and the U.S. seems poised to do the same. Have you ever fibbed to your air medical examiner? (click to answer) Last Week’s Question: Results Want to see the current breakdown of responses? Take a moment to answer the question yourself, and then you can view […]
Flying my 172 near McGuire Air Force Base on Sunday, VFR with flight following from McGuire Approach. Two Air Force DC-10 tankers were practicing approaches as I flew by, and I offered to climb to stay out of their way. The controller asked me to climb and maintain 2,500 feet. Approach:“TAC 1, turn left, heading […]
A while back, AVweb reader Marc Santacroce suggested a great poll question. “I can’t find any recent survey … that asked how pilots got their licenses,” he wrote. With flight training on our brain, that’s our questio to you this week. (Military pilots, you get the week off; for this poll, we’re interested in folks […]
Each week, we run a sampling of the letters received to our editorial inbox here in AVmail. One letter that’s particularly relevant, informative, or otherwise compelling will headline this section as our “Letter of the Week,” and we’ll send the author an official AVweb baseball cap as a “thank you” for interacting with us (and […]
On a Young Eagles flight recently, the 8-year-old girl sitting in the right seat asked me what why I had a switch for “rotting bacon.” Confused, I asked her to point to it. Then I said, “Oh, that’s for the rotating beacon!” I’m going to use that term from now on. Rich Oleszczukvia e-mail
A new survey says customer satisfaction is up (although it’s still not very high). How was your last airline experience? (click to answer) Last Week’s Question: Results Want to see the current breakdown of responses? Take a moment to answer the question yourself, and then you can view real-time results. What’s On Your Mind? Have […]
Each week, we run a sampling of the letters received to our editorial inbox here in AVmail. One letter that’s particularly relevant, informative, or otherwise compelling will headline this section as our “Letter of the Week,” and we’ll send the author an official AVweb baseball cap as a “thank you” for interacting with us (and […]
About ten airplanes from a local air park descended on the usually quiet Grand Prarie Muni (Texas) for Sunday breakfast. Afterward, we heard this exchange: Controller (somewhat exasperated) :“Did you guys all take off together?” Unidentified Pilot:“No. We actually took off one at a time … .” Steve Wilsonvia e-mail
It’s a matter of mere weeks until the year’s biggest aviation show, so we have a question this week for those of you who are going. How do you normally go to AirVenture – and is that changing this year? (click to answer) Last Week’s Question: Results Want to see the current breakdown of responses? […]
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