Question of the Week

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, we asked AVweb readers what they thought of thequarter-million-dollar prize NASA put up in its recent Personal AirVehicle Challenge. 41% of the readers who took time to answer our poll thought theamount was a bit excessive, given that none of the contestants really pushedthe […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Now that Delta Air Lines has become the latest Air Transport Association member to lay the blame for commercial flight delays at the feet of general aviation, we’ve heard quite a few complaints about the ATA from the G.A. segment of our audience. Last week, we […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** EAA AirVenture saw no shortage of big announcements in ’07, and last week we asked readers to pick the biggest single announcement to come out of Oshkosh this year. Opinions varied widely, and a full 13% of respondents told us they considered the show’s biggest news […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, Eclipse surprised everyone with a sleek, elegant concept jet design that quickly became the talk of Oshkosh.  In the midst of AirVenture, we asked what AVweb readers thought of Eclipse’s big-news concept jet debut. Reactions were mostly positive, with 31% of respondents calling the […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** With Marion Blakey approaching the end of her term as FAA Administrator, we asked AVweb readers to rate her performance on the familiar grade-school scale of A, B, C, D and F. To no one’s surprise, Blakey didn’t score so well, garnering an F from 92% […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, an AVweb reader suggested that the difficulties many are experiencing with the newly-privatized AFSS system may be more than mere growing pains – they might be the early death cries of an antiquated system, now that DUATS, cell phone usage, and public internet access […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, we decided to put on an impromptu beauty contest among the new breed of very light jets/personal jets/sport little fast-moving numbers that we all wish we could stock a hangar with. The results were tremendous, bringing in enough traffic to temporarily break our polling […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** NATCA and the FAA still don’t see eye-to-eye on the state of the air traffic control system here in the U.S.  NATCA keeps telling us that we’re entering a period of crisis because of the shrinking controller population, while the FAA maintains that there are plenty […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, AVweb pointed out that Marion Blakey’s tenure asFAA Administrator is scheduled to end in three short months and askedwho might make a good replacement. This proved to be a popular question, drawing more than 5,000 votesover the weekend and even (temporarily) breaking our vote-countingscript. […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, AVweb pointed to the trend of regional airlineshiring low(er)-time pilots to fill key positions and asked what theminimum qualifications should be for a new hire at one of theseairlines. As you might have expected, there were quite a fewletters on the subject, but most […]