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AVweb had decided to Profile Col. Joe Kittinger long before current headlines had developed. But his trailblazing research on emergency escape and survival procedures for astronauts gives him a unique perspective on the Columbia disaster, and his 11 months in the Hanoi Hilton remind us what American pilots might face in the skies over Iraq. […]

Imagine a post-9/11 world filled with F16s, Blackhawk helicopters, surface-to-air missiles, AWACs, ADIZs, TFRs, FRZs, and other airspaces people haven’t even figured out yet.Imagine being cleared to fly through all that with ‘nary a care in the world.Now imagine preserving your freedom to travel through this airspace through numerous, ambiguous, ambivalent, and overlapping jurisdictions of […]

PREFLIGHT PERSONAL DOCUMENTATION AIRCRAFT DOCUMENTATION DEPARTURE ARRIVAL RETURN FLIGHT Print a printer-friendly version of this checklist to take with you.

1. VFR “over the top” flight is permitted under the OTT (Over The Top) visual flight rules, which also requires a separate rating on Canadian pilot certificates if they are not already IFR rated (or have been in the past). U.S. pilots who do not have an instrument rating should not expect to be able […]

Many people think they know all about the devil-may-care life-on-the-razor’s edge existence of an airline pilot’s existence. They have no idea.Movies such as “Catch Me If You Can” seem to show the public the truth about the flying life of a crew. The double-entendre sex talk with the flight attendants, the first-class hotel stays with […]

Flying in Canada is just different enough from flying in the U.S. to make it a learning experience, and similar enough to make it comfortable. Canada’s aviation heritage is like a vein whose branches nourish virtually every facet of the diverse country’s social, business and even political life. To a large degree, aviation built Canada, […]

Kudos to AVweb I subscribe to AOPA and they are a very good magazine BUT, I must say that in my opinion the INTERNET’S AVIATION MAGAZINE is the BEST. BAR NONE AND 2nd TO NO-ONE. I ENJOY READING it 100%, and that means every article and issue. You’re doing an excellent job.Fred Swazy AVweb Format […]

Heading to Sun ‘n Fun this year? If so, then take a minute or two and stop by and see some of your favorite AVweb sponsors and say hi! Tell ’em AVweb sent you! Print this list out and take it along with you! SPONSOR BOOTH/SPACE # Aeroshell C-085-089 Aerox Oxygen Systems B-005 AOPA Flight […]

Jeppesen Fixing Database Problem The system of issuing airspace boundaries by the FAA and other countries is a mess. The FAA uses VOR stations and VOR radials in true bearing for Class B and C, and LAT/LON for restricted areas, and who knows what for TFRs.What the other ICAO counties do is probably less than […]

Increased security, increased perception of risk, increased litigation — the aviation insurance industry has had a lot of challenges recently, and most of us have seen the effects of those challenges when we paid our severely increased insurance premiums. But those premiums are for hull and liability (and sometimes medical) insurance — what about life […]