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Overheard while awaiting clearance at Wellington Airport, NZ, in poor, gusty weather… Tower: XXX be advised the previous aircraft reports reduced wind shear on final, and decreasing crosswind. XXX: “Oh. Goody…”

*** PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, AVweb polled readers to find out how much you’re spending on your aircraft’s hangar storage.  Most of you reported hangar costs of a couple hundred dollars.  (59% of respondents pay $100 to $300 a month.)  AVweb readers seem to have a knack for finding a bargain – as prices […]

De-Ice Rebuttal I have managed the Atlantic Aviation facility at Midway since 1992. In that time, this operation has gained an industry-recognized reputation of providing exceptional customer service on a consistent basis. We haven’t accomplished this by being so narrow-minded and short-sighted as this one-sided article tends to indicate. Many of my good friends are […]

I don’t know how many times the subject of the conversations in the Pilot’s Lounge here at the virtual airport have lingered on issues of aircraft maintenance. If there is one thing that concerns a pilot nearly as much as flying weather or the cost of flying, it is the mechanical condition of the aircraft […]

Overheard while approaching the control zone in Wellington, New Zealand……. ZKxxx: Request entry into the zone with Charlie 1021, currently 20 miles to the south west at 2500. Wellington Tower: Cleared to enter the zone via the Sinclair Sector 1500 feet or below. ZKxxx: Cleared to enter the zone via Sinclair at 1500 or below. […]

*** 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 […]