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Picture of the Week What happened to the Picture of the Week? It seems to have stopped. John Crusco AVweb Responds: Didn’t you get enough photos in our AirVenture coverage from Oshkosh? Picture of the Week took a vacation while we were in Oshkosh. It’s back now. Arturo WeissNewswriter and POTW Editor Question of the […]

The title of this article, which was made famous by Gene Kranz during the Apollo 13 mission, popped into my head recently while I was climbing my ham radio tower. Whenever I unhook my climbing safety belt and start to climb down, I take a moment to focus and remember to have one hand securely […]

Just as vices tend to become habits, the Pilot’s Lounge again made its annual odyssey from the pleasant confines of the virtual airport to the EAA Convention at Oshkosh this year. The regulars camped together and did their best to keep things stirred up. Jay and Doc Walt did a formation arrival in their Beech […]

Do you own or use a tablet or electronic flight bag? Our sister publication, Aviation Consumer, is doing a review of these products and would like to hear from you. Contact the magazine here.Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted from Cessna OwnerMagazine by permission from Cessna Owner Organization — 888-MYCessna. A few years ago I […]

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NASA ASRS I read Don Brown’s column on “It’s the Little Things” with great interest. Although I was aware of the ASRS, I was not aware of the publications of reports on various incidents that were available through ASRS. After downloading several of these, I was extremely enlightened by the report on Personal Electronic Devices […]

What a difference a couple of years makes. It was barely two years ago that the pilot employment market was sizzling. Airlines were siphoning thousands of pilots into the cockpits of Boeings, while corporate flight departments and fractional jet outfits were recruiting airmen by the truckload, it seemed. All of that upward movement created vacancies […]

“You should write a book,” said Jenny, our senior flight attendant for today, who was standing behind the center console of our airplane.She was no doubt referring to the fact that so far today not much had gone right and we could fill at least a romance-novel-sized tome about our trials and tribulations up to […]

Enjoy the latest installment along with installments #1, #2 and #3 of AVweb/AirsideTVs free streaming video coverage of AirVenture 2003. Thanks to our AirVenture partner AirsideTV, AVweb readers will enjoy this exciting video supplement to our in-depth Oshkosh coverage including an up-close view of the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, which is bound to Virginia for the […]