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Editor’s Note: This week we introduce a new columnist, Liz Moscrop, whose monthly Across the Pond column will explore GA issues in Europe. Imagine a family that aims to be the Waltons, but is actually more like the Bundys in Married with Children. Welcome to the European Union (EU). We might love each other (and […]

New FAA Rules About Charity Flights It seems there is some confusion over the effects of the new rules regarding charity flights (AVwebFlash, Feb. 11). Of particular concern would be whether flights must stay within 25 nm of — and return to — the departure airport, and the minimum flight hours a pilot must have […]

It builds up, doesn’t it? You make some airline flights and get treated like Grade Z beef cattle on the good ones. Then you have one where the experience is so rotten that you vow to use general aviation forevermore. And then the price of avgas goes up. Again. The TSA imposes yet another moronic […]

Todd Macaluso of Macaluso & Associates, the attorney representing the families Cory Lidle and Tyler Stanger whom died in the Manhattan small place crash on October 11, 2006 announces today that he is filing a wrongful death action against Cirrus Design Corporation and other defendants in Santa Monica, Ca. on Thursday, February 22, 2007 on […]

This article originally appeared in Aviation Safety, Dec. 2004. Pilots have many different phobias when it comes to flying personal airplanes. Some cringe at the thought of flying IFR over mountains, whether in a single or a twin. Others refuse to fly over large bodies of water, choosing to skirt Lake Michigan via the Gary/Chicago/Milwaukee […]

The Shell company recently published their Shell Aviation Tech Talk #15 (990 Kb Adobe PDF file) and distributed it to all pilots in Australia and New Zealand. I’m getting a lot of questions from readers there, and from graduates of our seminar.The bulk of the report is an excellent treatise on detonation and pre-ignition, well […]

A funny thing happened as I was finishing up the annual inspection on my 1979 Cessna T310R back in March of 2000. The inspection was complete, and I had gotten off pretty light … John, the IA, didn’t find all that much wrong with the airplane. What discrepancies had been found were now all resolved. […]

Stephen Brown’s Podcast Interview I enjoyed hearing the podcast interview with Stephen Brown (Jan. 28). I admire his straightforward attitude and I especially applaud his lack of support for sensationalizing the incident.Joseph Barber Controller Staffing Finally Administrator Blakely has told the truth, that more controllers decided to retire (by 25%) than the FAA had planned […]

I always enjoy going to pilot retirement parties because they make me feel so young. Tonight’s party was no different. There was the retiree, Paul, who had just gotten off his last flight from Tokyo and was beginning to celebrate his newfound non-captain-ness. Others in the group included the ubiquitous happy family, old pilots who […]

This article originally appeared in IFR Refresher, Dec. 2005. What do you do when the controller who is vectoring you to the final approach fails to put you in the proper position?In the summer of 2004, a pilot flying a Piper Cherokee Six from Springfield, Ky., to Hot Springs/Memorial Field (KHOT) in Hot Springs, Ark., […]