Question of the Week

Question of the Week: Lockheed Martin’s AFSS Report Card

This Week’s Question |Last Week’s Results PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, AVweb asked if you’d be willing to fly a single-enginepiston into IMC weather. Most of our instrument-rated pilots (67% of you) were willing to doit, but not always with passengers on board. (Only 3% ofrespondents said they’d never fly into IMC with passengersaboard.) What […]

Question of the Week: Flying into IMC

This Week’s Question |Last Week’s Results PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, with mid-term elections in U.S. fresh on our minds, weasked whether readers thought the dramatic shift of power fromRepublicans to Democrats in both houses of Congress might thwart thestrong push for user fees in the upcoming FAA reauthorization bill. The largest segment of our […]

Question of the Week

Question Of The Week

This Week’s Question |Last Week’s Results PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Election Day is just around the corner, and last week AVweb asked whether your local Congressional candidates’ stance on user fees would play a big role in determining your vote on November 7. Not surprisingly, a majority of the readers who responded to our poll (58% […]

Question Of The Week: User Fees, Mid-Term Elections, and Your Vote

This Week’s Question | Last Week’s Results PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, AVweb asked whether New York City’s “VFR Corridor” over the East River should be kept open. A full 51% of AVweb readers answered Yes – while another 26% of you sided with the FAA, saying that all fixed-wing aircraft should contact LaGuardia before […]

Question of the Week: New York City’s VFR Corridor Over the East River

This Week’s Question |Last Week’s Results PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, in our continuing effort to get a better picture of how much time AVweb readers spend in the skies, we asked how many hours you’ve logged with an instructor over the last 12 months. Even allowing for simulator time, it seems it wasn’t much […]

Question of the Week: How Many Hours Did You Log with Your Instructor This Year?

This Week’s Question |Last Week’s Results PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, AVweb asked our Instrument-Rated pilots how many IMC hours they’d logged in the last 12 months. Not very many, it turns out – 62% of those who responded said they’d logged 15 or fewer hours, while only 5% of respondents said they’d logged a […]

Question of the Week: How Many IMC Hours Do You Log Each Year?

This Week’s Question |Last Week’s Results PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, an AVweb reader wondered whether increased government regulation might actually be good for the major airlines, suggesting that it could provide a more stable path to profit and viability. AVweb readers on the whole seemed to disagree. A full 36% of those who responded […]

Question of the Week: Government Regulation a GoodThing?

This Week’s Question |Last Week’s Results PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Our most recent “Questions of the Week” have centered around airplane shopping and buying. Last week, we asked which factor (from our list) is the most important in your personal decision to by a new aircraft. Always responsible, AVweb readers named safety the most important factor […]

Question of the Week

This Week’s Question |Last Week’s Results PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Last week, AVweb asked what type of plane (realistically) our readers mightconsider buying in the near future. Your answers ran the entire gamut from LSAs to fractional ownerships, butclearly the most popular option is purchasing a used, fully-certified aircraft.That choice accounted for 39% of all readers […]