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Good afternoon everyone and thanks for joining this call. AsDoug mentioned, my name is John Carr, President of the National AirTraffic Controllers Association. And just to clarify, although the FAA [news conference] event happened probably was an hour or two ago, we just got our hands on the [FAA] report [on the New York TRACON] […]

My entire career in aviation has had to do with the immolation of the remains of dead dinosaurs. Beginning with my early years as a bicycle-riding line boy right through the last 23,000 pounds of Jet A that I burned from New York to Dallas, the rotting remains of latter-day super lizards have driven my […]

Glass Cockpits Go Ab Initio In last week’s AVweb (NewsWire, May 23) you quoted MTSU’s Paul Craig as saying, “The new [glass-cockpit] technology solves the two problems that make IFR different from VFR: 1) We can see through clouds, and 2) we can see where we are. With these two problems solved, what is the […]

This article is in response to a recent opinion piece regarding the insurability of flight schools conducting flight training for new Sport Pilots.First off, I could not agree more with the first few paragraphs of the previous letter: The new FAA rules for Sport Pilot and light sport aircraft (LSA) offer a new and very […]

Through my (hopefully not-quite-over) media career and my writing gigs with AVweb, I had the opportunity to meet and hang out with noted outdoorsman Tom Gresham. Gresham is an affable, self-deprecating fellow who lives in the small, north-Louisiana hamlet of Natchitoches. He is the son of Grits, of the mutton-chop sideburns and lengthy outdoor credentials […]

When Freud Slips Into The Cockpit.Miami Center near the Keys on a summer afternoon with large storms… Center: Cessna 1234, how’s the ride at 5000? I can give you 7000 if it helps. Cessna 1234: Moderate turbulence and looks bad ahead … but its not gonna be better at seven, I think we will just […]

Chicago Tribulations It’s too funny that Mayor Daley would lament how his city doesn’t have any jets (NewsWire, May 16). He’s the one who literally kicked both the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard out of his city in the middle 1990s.I guess he doesn’t consider the F-16s in Madison, Wisc., close enough to […]

Overheard on the Houston Deperture frequency… DEP: Aircraft XYZ, Contact Yao Ming on 123.45 Pilot: …Huh? DEP: Houston Center

I‘ve been threatening to write this article for a while now and it’s as good a time as any. If you want to start an argument among pilots you only have to ask one little question: “Yeah, but what happens if you go NORDO?” If you read any aviation forums on the Internet, you know […]