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The cost is staggering, isnt it? The price of admission to a professional flight deck wherein you can actually be paid to aviate can be overwhelming to the average Joe or Joan.You were first impressed by those great-looking, four-color display ads in the magazines. But a quick call to the admissions reps at a dozen […]

Recently while flying over central Missouri, I overheard a controller responding to a request for VFR Flight Following… Controller: …And your type aircraft? Pilot: Beech Dutchess, Low wing, twin-engine, white and blue. Controller: You’re all a quarter-inch long and green to me.

*** PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, AVweb asked about the new Sport Pilot rules lurking in our near future.  Most AVweb readers who responded are open to the new rules – 34% of you welcoming Sport Pilot with open arms, while another 33% say that what’s good for the industry is good for the individual […]

Welcome back class. I don’t think there is any other subject that I’ve tried to cover that has created as much confusion as this subject. I know there isn’t another that has been misconstrued as much. It’s been a real eye-opener to see some of the interpretations springing from my articles. Let’s take another whack […]

DC ADIZ and the NCRCC I stayed up well past my bedtime to watch the House Aviation Subcommittee hearing investigating the June 9 incident in the Washington Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on CSPAN. The subject of this hearing was the incident involving the governor of Kentucky’s aircraft, which was the target of a scramble […]

This will be no surprise to anyone who knows me: I love engines. Just dig ’em. Internal combustion, jet, compression-ignition, Rolls-Royce Trent, Briggs & Stratton, big or small — it really doesn’t matter. If it turns chemical energy into mechanical work, I’m hot to know more about it. Airframes are nice, and useful I suppose […]

Climbing through 800′ past the departure end in my Cherokee, I heard the tower clear a Cheyenne for takeoff. As I waited for tower to call me out to the Cheyenne for the inevitible pass, I craned my neck around hoping to get a visual. When neither occured, I voiced my concern… Me: Exec tower, […]

*** PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, AVweb asked the rather loaded question, “Are professional pilots overpaid?”  Most of our respondents (professional pilots included) answered “no” – only 1/3 of you thought those pilot salaries were a little high … . *** THIS WEEK’S QUESTION *** This week, AVweb wants to gauge your interest in the […]

Hawaiian Captain That Captain needs to be honored for what he did (NewsWire, June 28). I’m surprised it went over. When Lorenzo was destroying Eastern Air Lines (I flew for Eastern 24 years until the strike), some of the guys said they felt he created an unsafe atmosphere, but the crews were ordered to fly […]

One of the contentions among those who show up here in the Pilot’s Lounge at the virtual airport is that those who are attracted to aviation have a significantly greater sense of adventure than those who merely exist on the surface of the planet. Perhaps it is because we desire to move in the third […]