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The RTW pilots left Paris behind them and took off for Marrakech, in Morrocco, on the northwestern coast of Africa. The distance of about 1,100 nm meant only the PC-12 and the Cessna Conquest could fly nonstop. The TBM 700 and Cessna Mustang crews planned a stop in Gibraltar, near the southernmost tip of the […]

Taxi Instructions If the idea of relaying those instructions came from anyone less than the grey, FAA top end (AVwebFlash, May 20), it would have been either email or text direct to the cockpit to improve retention and verify correct information before the “send” key depression. Only the elderly still think voice is a great […]

Who knew that a nice afternoon movie during a Fort Lauderdale layover would lead me to pontificate yet again about aviation?The whole crew and I decided to take in an early after-lunch movie at the local cineplex. Since we had to take a vote on which movie to watch and since us two male pilots […]

Overheard in IFR Magazine‘s “On the Air” Heard on Denver approach frequency: Approach:“Great Lakes One Twenty Three, traffic six o’clock, two miles, 1000 feet above you, a 737.” Great Lakes:“Approach, Great Lakes One Twenty Three, if I told you I could see him, I’d be lying.” Approach:“If you told me you could see him, you’d […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, we asked if the uncertain state of the aviation economy has affected your flying plans. 40% of those who took time to answer (the biggest single segment) said they’re sticking with what I have for now. The second most popular answer (from the options […]

[AVweb’s reprint of A Pilot’s History began with Chapter 1.] Upon being released from the Air Force in the latter part of 1952, I went back to the non-scheduled airline where I had been working before the Air Force had called me back for the Korean fiasco. I was soon flying passenger runs in C-46s […]

Last week, we left our intrepid band of GA pilots in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, where they all had landed safely in VFR conditions, after a few changes of flight plans to accommodate the weather. The group spent the night there and by 5:30 the next morning they were up checking the weather in […]

Skip Flight Planning Mr. Stephans:I am writing in regards to your article Skip Flight Planning, (Flying the System, May 19). I agree with you! I am a retired Army aviator with 26 years of service. I was an Instrument Flight Examiner for most of those years as well as an Instructor Pilot.Planning a cross-country instrument […]

The Wright Brothers were successful because they combined two vital elements of airplane design: control and stability. Wilbur and Orville achieved control through a pioneering design that evolved into what’s used in almost all fixed-wing aircraft today — a system that makes use of the stability designed into the airplane. Controllability cannot exist without some […]

Overheard in IFR Magazine‘s “On the Air” While on a trip in a Grumman Cheetah from Marathon, Florida Keys to Exuma in the Bahamas, I ran into a large area of clouds hanging over Andros Island. They’d been classified as benign when I’d received my weather briefing about an hour and a half earlier. I […]