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Day ONE |Day TWO CLICK FOR LARGE IMAGESEACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW Bonanza and company Columbia panel mock-up DA40XL open for offers D-Jet visitors Lots of electronics on display FAA Administrator Marion Blakey, Cirrus CEO Alan Klapmeier and AOPA President Phil Boyer Foxjet makes a comeback GAMI under the hood Jet-ready The […]

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This is the last article I get to write as an air traffic controller. I retire from the FAA on December 1. No longer a controller. No longer a Federal employee. No longer a safety rep for NATCA. While I’ll admit to a certain sense of melancholy, it is far outweighed by my sense of […]

100LL Any pilot that wants to continue flying piston GA aircraft should take exception to David Zizmor’s petition to the EPA to remove all lead from avgas (AVmail, Oct. 23). His argument for unleaded and ethanol conversions sounds good on paper but fails the test of real-world operations. Unleaded auto fuel does a super job […]

In September I briefly escaped the grasp of the big, tattered, old recliners in the Pilot’s Lounge at the virtual airport and made my way west to the annual fly-in and convention of LightHawk. It is a public-benefit flying organization dedicated to making flights in support of conservation and the environment — the environmental air […]

November 9-11, 2006 Palm Springs Convention Center Palm Springs, California Booth #1620 Adam Aircraft Booth #2204 AeroShell Booth #1127 Aircraft Shopper Online (ASO) Booth #1220 Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co. Booths#1008-1017 Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association (AOPA) Booth #909 Aviation Supplies & Academics (ASA) Booth #811 Avemco Insurance Booth #2028 Aviation Technology Group (ATG) Booth […]

Unless you’ve been around homebuilts, you’ve probably never heard of a Jabiru. (Sure, you may be familiar with the varieties of stork whose name comes from the Tupi-Guarani term meaning “swollen neck.”) I mean the Jabiru airplane — a tidy design that’s morphed into several varieties: two- and four-seat, 51% experimental and, soon, a ready-to-fly […]

This article originally appeared in Aviation Safety, Aug 2004. Scud running, the practice of flying underneath a low ceiling, often in poor visibility, has claimed its share of low- and high-time pilots, even those with Instrument ratings. The risks of scud running, while manageable, are definitely higher than flying on a clear summer day and […]

[Editor’s Note: AVweb’s Mike Busch received the following letter from the FAA regarding his column, The Savvy Aviator #32: 2006 Aging GA Aircraft Summit, published June 7, 2006.] Dear Mr. Busch,First of all, we thank you for attending the FAA’s Small Airplane Directorate “GA Summit,” held earlier this year in Kansas City. We appreciate your […]