It almost goes without saying, and most of us ought to do it byhabit, but make sure the aircraft is always trimmed. Obviously, this makes it mucheasier when something untoward happens. The flying skills they have learned, and their confidence in those skills, will atrophyquickly unless they are allowed to practice regularly. This does not […]
My husband, Doug (AVweb’s NewsEditor) tried for over a decade to get me to take a Pinch-Hitter course, to no avail. Ihad a million and one excuses and used them frequently. I just did not want to learn tofly or anything remotely connected with learning to fly. Flying was his thing. It was agreat way […]
Flying over FairbanksAlaska in their Piper Super Cruiser with his wife Joan, John Chalupnik suffered a massivebrain hemorrhage. Joan suddenly found herself Pilot In Command. She wasn’t really a pilot,but providentially, she had attended the AOPA Air Safety Foundation’s Pinch-Hitter programjust the day before. After regaining control of the plane she called for help on […]
NBC’s two-hour made-for-TV movie Blackout Effect stars EricStoltz as a dedicated young NTSB investigator, and costars veteran character actor CharlesMartin Smith as an eccentric and emotional air traffic controller. The show starts out very promisingly with lots ofquick sequences intercut between airline cockpits and an ARTCC dubbed “MidwestCenter” located in Illinois. (Can you spell ZAU?) […]
If the case of “TenRomeo” proves anything, it’s that the government is not always right. A few months ago, I wrote an AVweb guest editorialadvising that the Federal Government had confiscated Dr. Millard Harmon’s Beech Bonanza36, N7710R. I owe you an update. In civil action, the United States sued Dr. Harmon, charging him with: From […]
Senator Slade Gorton Chairman — Senate Aviation Subcommittee U. S. Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Gorton: Mid-air collision kills 185. Global flight 1025, inbound to Chicago, collides with a cargo aircraft, PDO flight 342. Both aircraft are destroyed. NTSB investigating the FAA and the Air Traffic Control system as primary cause. This is the […]
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Missouri — From where Dennis Fetters sits, it’s frustratingto try to deliver a low-cost, relatively simple kit helicopter only to have people getupset when problems arise, as they have been wont to do this year on the Mini-500helicopter kits his company, RevolutionHelicopter Corp., manufactures. “We work hard to put together the most-affordablehelicopter kit […]
Top 10 Aviation News Stories | SpecialAwards | Final Flights AVweb’s Top 10 Aviation News Stories Of 1997 10. John Denver Crash The death of a celebrity in an aircraftcrash will always make headlines. Couple that with the celebrity being the pilot, theaircraft being a homebuilt and questions raised about the pilot’s medical and certificatestatus […]
There are two types of aviation businesses: those who have been involved in litigation, and those who will. Air crashes and business disputes often result in the parties hiring lawyers and slugging it out in court. Due to the technical nature of the aviation industry, lawyers rely heavily on expert witnesses to explain the technical […]
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