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AFSS Nonsense With all due respect to Lockheed-Martin VP Dan Courain (Podcast, Oct. 5), he needs to pick up the phone and call AFSS himself. The problem isn’t just briefings; it’s the tying up of airspace and human resources as well.Case in point: I was unable to raise Atlantic City approach to cancel my IFR […]

August 30, 2007 Piper Arrow pilot was on a 1/4-mile final, making a late-night emergency landing at MSP due to a faulty nosegear indicator, with fire trucks and emergency vehicles lining both sides of the runway. Overheard:Wow, not even [U.S. President] Bush gets this kind of treatment when he lands! (The nose wheel held up […]

Fog shrouded the Northwest airport. A single-engine, retractable-gear airplane, with three aboard, was arriving from a routine, cross-country flight. The experienced pilot set up for a GPS approach. At the missed-approach point, the ground was still obscured so the pilot powered up and began a climb; but as the aircraft crossed directly over the airport, […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** ADS-B is on the way, and the FAA wants you to upgrade your avionics to an ADS-B-compatible package by 2020.  That’s a long way off, but it’s still going to cost money.  Last week, we asked AVweb readers how much they’d be willing to spend to […]

Age 60 Rebuttal A recent letter to the editor states that the author has been working on the Age 60 question since 1996 (AVmail, Oct. 1). My question is, “Why did you not fight the issue back in 1959 when it first came into being?” There is no one flying who did not know when […]

I doubt a day goes by without someone here in the Pilot’s Lounge at the virtual airport expressing concern about the diminishing number of pilots in the U.S. and the seeming lack of interest on the part of young people in learning to fly. There are evenings when the subject is batted around endlessly, yet […]

Overheard in IFR Magazine‘s “On the Air” We were just being handed off after leaving Ft. Lauderdale (FXE) to N. Eleuthra (MYEH). Me:Miami Center, Chieftan 867CJ leaving 2,000 for 7,500. Miami (approach):Chieftan 7CJ, you can fly direct if you stop calling me “center.” Me:Roger that … approach.

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, we asked whether it was inevitable that big-jet makers like Airbus and Boeing would enter the growing market for small- and medium-sized jets. Despite strong rumors that it’s only a matter of time, AVweb readers thought the big boys’ entry into these markets may […]

Safe Skies and Blaming GA The airlines disgust me at their attempts to blame GA for traffic delays. The first time I saw their ads was flying on Hawaiian Airlines and the second was on Delta. As I was sitting at Delta’s Hub in Atlanta, Ga. (ATL) waiting for our delayed flight, I couldn’t help […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, we asked whether aviation experience should be such a big factor in becoming a NASA astronaut. Our question sparked acouple of e-mails about the NASA qualifications, but it also taught us that most AVweb readers think brains and ability rank higher than a pilot’s […]