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Overheard near Sacramento, California, where NorCal approach and departure is training a large number of new controllers: Cessna 12345:“NorCal approach, student pilot, Cessna 12345. Heading 024. 1500 feet, climbing to 5500.” NorCal Approach:“Cessna 54661, student controller. Roger radar contact.” Michael Fedorykvia e-mail

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, we asked AVweb readers what stance GA should take toward the future of lead in avgas. For the first time this year, one option in our poll received a clear majority of votes. 56% of you said we should accept that its days are […]

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 […]

Overhead on SoCal Approach frequency near a busy Southern California airport last year: N12345:“SOCAL, Cherokee N12345 is with you, with X-ray for the ILS to 26R.” SOCAL:“Roger. N12345, fly heading 280 and descend to 3,000.” N12345:“SOCAL, N12345. We have a problem. We seemed to have lost our squawk code. Can we have another one?” SOCAL:“N12345, […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, we asked AVweb readers which of the currently-proposed alternatives to 100LL (if any) will reign as the avgas of the future. While none of the options topped 50% of the vote, the most popular single option (with 39% of the vote) was that leaded […]

N12345:“Ground, Cessna 12345 is at the restaurant, ready to taxi for north departure.” Ground Control:“Standby.” A minute later … Ground Control:“Cessna at the Outer Marker, please repeat your request.” The pilot of N12345 doesn’t respond, but is surely wondering why grouns is calling on aircraft on the ILS. Ground Control:“Cessna at the Outer Marker, do […]

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 […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, we asked AVweb readers which trainees make the best airline pilots. Once again, there was a lot of variation in your answers – but the most popular choice among AVweb readers (accumulating 31% of your votes) was trainees with a mix of varied experience, […]

Overheard on a flight from Central California to Southern California (maybe L.A. Center?): Airliner (heard in background during radio transmission) :“We need peanuts!” Controller:“Who needs peanuts?” Airliner:“Um, disregard.” Donn Larsonvia e-mail

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 […]