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GA Pilots Recruited For Cockpit Study Read your article, and jumped right away to the NASA web page; ’twas looking good ’till I found the following on the Pilot Background Questionnaire: Due to NASA base restrictions, all participants must be a U.S. citizen. If you were born in a foreign country you must bring your […]

An exchange overheard between departure control at a Canadian airport and a B727 pilot. Pilot: Where’s Annule?Dep. Control: What is it … an intersection or something? Pilot: I don’t know. Dep. Control: Where did you see it?Pilot: On the screens in the terminal. Lots of airlines go there but the flight’s always cancelled.Dep. Control: (laughter) […]

Flying for Business The company I work for has prohibited private flying ever since a “Risk Management” department was started over 10 years ago.The company owns two Gulfstreams and two Sikorsky S-76 helicopters, which were flown by professional pilots under contract with an outsourced firm.About two years ago, the company started its own Flight Department […]

Finally, the long winter has passed, and we pilots are finally able to shed our heavy uniform coats and show up for work in our summer attire — white shirts with epaulettes.The winter uniform coats are great for “experienced, healthy” (meaning chubby) captains like myself, because the formal jacket covers a lot of the results […]

This week, we would like to know your thoughts on ATC facility tours. For AVweb’s Question of the Week, click here. PREVIOUS RESULTS We received over 300 responses to our question last week on flying during the Memorial Day holiday weekend. About 30 percent of those responding flew during the period, but only within their […]

Boeing Looks at McAirliners Just a quick note on something I thought was incorrect in the AVweb newsletter. The article says “Seattle-based.” They are now headquartered in Chicago, Ill., as of a couple years ago. Love the newsletter; keep up the great job, I love seeing it in my mail box.Ric Vanselow FAA Wings Program […]

While flying in Saturday morning around 10:30 am to the EAA southwest show at New Braunfel’s (BAZ), the very busy tower and an experimental aircraft on final had this exchange. Experimental ABX: “Tower, experimental ABX, I’m dodging a bunch of airplanes. Tower: “Good, keep dodging. You’re number 4 on final.”

This week, we would like to know your thoughts on flying this holiday weekend. For AVweb’s Question of the Week, click here. PREVIOUS RESULTS We received over 300 responses to our question last week on the delayed release of Sport Pilot. So far, 31 percent of those responding indicate the delay of Sport Pilot does […]

Cirrus Robb’s “Best Of Best” As a Cirrus SR22 owner, I understand and appreciate the Robb Report’s selection of the SR22 as one of the “Best of the Best.” It truly is a great airplane.People know me as an advocate for aviation and aviation safety. Therefore, I am disappointed by AVweb’s allusion to the Cirrus’ […]

For those who haven’t been counting, this concludes my second year of writing for AVweb. No one is more surprised than me. It doesn’t seem that long. I guess it’s true. Time does fly when you’re having fun.And it has been fun. Even more important, at least in my book, it’s been educational. Everyone’s heard […]