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According to Garrison Keillor, Lake Woebegone always has quiet weeks. That isn’t the case here in the Pilot’s Lounge at the virtual airport, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. We have been known to have some pretty raucous moments; particularly if Old Hack and a couple of other folks show up at the […]

Elise Ransdell: Wellstone CrashI must politely disagree with Mr. Whitehead in his letter to the editor on the 28 of Oct 2002. I believe it is important to mention that Senator Wellstone was “one of the Senate’s leading liberals.” Anytime a well-known figure is killed in an airplane crash it certainly is important in an […]

This week we would like to know about your flying currency.For AVweb’s Question of the Week, click here.Previous ResultsWe received over 500 responses to our question last week on Performance Data. Over half (55 percent) of our respondents felt that the information provided in GA aircraft Pilot Operating Handbooks is adequate to safely fly the […]

In 1958 Bill Kershner was a student looking for a project to blend his interests in aeronautical engineering and journalism. He took a look at the Civil Air Manual 105, decided it was poorly written, and decided to write his Student Pilot’s Flight Manual. It’s now in its ninth edition with over 800,000 copies sold. […]

When I was first recruited by AVweb to write a column coming fresh off my FLYING magazine column dealing with flight testing called “The Eye of the Examiner,” I was given the freedom to write whatever strikes my fancy (so long as it is in reasonably good taste). At that time, I informed the readers […]

This seems to be the month that I’m destined to “ride the rails” as a jumpseat squatter. First, I had to sit on the rather small jumpseat of a rather small airliner, and now I find myself ensconced on a 767 jumpseat, traveling back from Hawaii to the real world. My two cockpit buddies for […]

After moving to six different locations over 30 years, EAA’s Copperstate Regional Fly-In, the largest event of its kind in the Southwest, has found a home. A few months ago, the place was just a big, flat, cotton field with a dirt strip across it. Now Phoenix Regional Airport, about 25 miles south of the […]

Click any image to view a larger version. Before … … After … … and then the rains came(Actually, this is the pond for float planes.) Antonov AN-2 “Smells like they wear a lot of sunscreen in here.” Putting a cargo door on it doesn’t mean you get to call it an SUV Snug as […]

LEGEND: JT = Jim Tucker [Co-pilot] AC = Auburn Calloway [Jumpseat Passenger] AP = Andy Peterson [Flight Engineer] DS = David Sanders [Pilot] Center = Memphis ARTCC Tower = Memphis Air Traffic Control Tower UV = Unidentified Voice AW = Autowarning UA = Unidentified Aircraft UNIN = Unitelligible [UNIN] [Laughter] DS: I can’t believe it, […]

James Morgan Tucker, Jr. was bornSeptember 7, 1951, in Miami, Fla. He grew up two blocks from MIA with A&Psfor neighbors, and watched Eastern Airlines transition from props to jets. Hewent to college in Alabama looking at a law career, but a carrier aviationposter in the recruiter’s office caught his eye, and he became a […]