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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 […]

Anticollision Device Please tell the chaps in Arizona they don’t have to invent the wheel twice (AVwebFlash, Sep. 17). We’ve got want they want. There are hundreds of gliders in Europe equipped with FLARM, a GPS-based anticollision device that works wonderfully. It saves lives!Dr. Richard Bieber AOPA/Lockheed Martin Conflict Of Interest? I notice at AOPA’s […]

It isn’t often that an airline flight crew has time to go to a football game during a layover. Many years ago when I was a plumber on the old DC-8 we used to have beacoup Detroit layovers, which meant we were laying-over in Ann Arbor at the venerated Ann Arbor Inn.Those layovers were seasonal […]

Overheard in IFR Magazine‘s “On the Air” Flying our Bonanza from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Morristown, New Jersey at 6,000 feet with a big thunderstorm to the west, we were handed off to New York approach: Me:Approach, Bonanza Eight Zero Lima level 6,000, heading 270. Approach:Bonanza Eight Zero Lima, descend and maintain 5,000. Me:Okay to […]