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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 […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, we asked AVweb readers which of major nominees should receive this year’s Collier Trophy. Votes ranged far and wide, with the ever-popular other cornering 24% of the total responses. Coming in second was the International Space Station, which 17% of you voted as this […]

With Super Bowl XLIV about to kick off as we prepare this week’s AVweb stories, we can’t resist the temptation to delve into our mailbag and serve up a “Short Final” that’s been holding for over a year: It was a Friday afternoon in November when we were departing OSU airport in the company King […]

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 what the various GA groups should make their top priority in 2010. The biggest segment of those who answered (37% of the total) said fighting user fees should top the list – and effort that seems to be off to […]

Overheard in IFR Magazine‘s “On the Air” One rainy evening in the L.A. basin, SoCal approach was trying to merge a bunch of traffic with wildly different airspeeds onto V23 southbound: SoCal:“Cessna Eight Eight Tango, what’s your best airspeed?” Cessna 88T:“One hundred ten knots.” SoCal (gloomy) :“Oh.” Cessna 88T:“Don’t be disappointed. It just means we’ll […]