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*** PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, AVweb asked readers about the increasing gulf between technology and flight training.  Our readership was split almost evenly across the four points of view.  The most popular response (by a narrow margin, with 34% of the vote) was that pilots are being increasingly trained in high-tech systems, and when […]

Recently I talked at length with an aircraft owner who had acquired a 1980 Cessna 340A just a few months ago. He found the aircraft through one of the best-known twin-Cessna brokers in the industry. The pressurized twin appeared to be in pristine condition, with excellent logs and mid-time engines (about 850 hours SMOH). Because […]

Sport Pilot Should Cover C152 I lost my third-class medical 26 years ago because of undergoing open heart surgey. After eight years I got a waiver and passed. I lost eight years of PIC. I belonged to a flying club and over the past 40 years we have had about 200 different members.Many lost their […]

The pilot lounge at our crew base is just like every other one in the airline universe: some preschool-type art tables with folding chairs and walls covered with cork bulletin boards, which in turn are covered with the flotsam and jetsam of pilot life. There is the usual large screen television showing either the usual […]

From our Gender Issues file… During an IFR training flight, while getting vectored to the ILS-35, on a heading of 090… Approach (female controller): Cardinal XXX, turn left heading 350 to intercept, cleared for the approach… Sorry for the bad vector, if you go through the localizer, continue left turn to 330 to intercept. Cardinal […]

*** PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, AVweb asked its readers for opinions on the Age-60 Rule. A full half of those who responded were in lock-step: You said that safe piloting can only be determined on a case-by-case basis, and the Age-60 Rule does a disservice to pilots of all ages. The other half of […]

I have always enjoyed meeting people of all ages and hearing their personal life stories, career choices, and most important, their future dreams and ambitions. I’ve been fortunate to meet many interesting people over the past eight years who have completely opened my eyes to the numerous opportunities that really exist in the world. At […]

No-Fly Zones AVweb wrote (NewsWire, Mar. 1): On Feb. 11, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) proposed the bill (H.R. 3798 that would require the DHS to establish no-fly zones around nuclear plants and chemical facilities for the duration of any high threat levels, including level orange or above. The zones could also be implemented anywhere […]

Sometimes you learn hard lessons in life. Sometimes these lessons are cheap, but sometimes they are very expensive. During the first week of February, I learned one of the expensive lessons.I have perhaps one of the most highly modified and upgraded Cessna T206H aircraft in existence. It has just about everything. However, when I fly […]

From our “been there, done that” files… On my first cross-country with friends after passing my private pilot checkride (back in the late Paleolithic…), I was in the runup area, working through the pre-takeoff checklist. An uncharacteristically subdued voice said from the rear seat, “If she still has to read the directions, I don’t think […]