FBOs

We had our “Hey, Let’s Have a Barbeque” barbeque at the virtual airport recently. Of course it rained. I had retreated indoors to the Pilot’s Lounge, where pilots were blasting the TSA for its most recent screw-up. They were wondering how an organization that hired morons who climbed on TAT probes marked “No Step” while […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs Traveling AVweb readers have recommended many FBOs to us this week. If you’d like to see your favorite FBO spotlighted here next Monday, recommend them using our online form. Our latest “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to McDonald-Gregory Aviation at Danville-Boyle County Airport in Danville, Kentucky. […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Stout Flying Service at Lewiston-Nez Perce County Regional Airport (KLWS) in Lewiston, Idaho. AVweb reader Steve Cronje gave the FBO “a big thumbs up” for going above-and-beyond to correct an honest mistake. While visiting the FBO, Steve received a […]

There is no cockpit seat in our airline more uncomfortable and embarrassing than the jumpseat on the MD-88.First, it isn’t really a seat so much as a giant, Chiclet-shaped, folded cushion that is hung in the cockpit by the most secure and opening-proof, metallic click-lock ever invented in this or any other universe. To release […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb readers logged some serious time this week, with many recommending FBOs they visited during their travels. Frank Ladd called our attention to Indiana’s Montgomery Aviation, which he praises for taking the “big gamble” of opening an FBO location at Grissom Air Reserve Base in Peru, Indiana. […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs Althought it’s still a relatively new FBO, Air 51 in Lexington, Kentucky keeps popping up on our radar. The latest recommendation comes from AVweb reader Don Hagedorn, who calls this popular pit stop the “best FBO I have ever visited,” prompting us break with tradition and make […]

A commonly glossed-over subject on complex-airplane checkouts can cost you several knots in cruise speed, and perhaps several hundred hours of operating life from your cylinders. It’s not the landing gear, or a controllable-pitch propeller, or even the mixture control. Cowl flaps can have a profound, long-term effect on the health and longevity of a […]

It happened the second day I was at Oshkosh. I’d vacated the Pilot’s Lounge at the virtual airport to visit Oshkosh along with a few hundred thousand of my closest friends for our annual immersion in all that is aviation. I gaped at the latest in electronics for the instrument panel, marveled at some of […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Poplar Grove Airmotive, located (where else?) at Poplar Grove Airport (C77), an hour north of Chicago. In a week filled with great recommendations, it was this testimonial from AVweb reader Steve Langdon that brought Poplar Grove to the top: […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Three Wing Flying Services at Igor Sikorsky Memorial Airport (KBDR) in Stratford, Connecticut. AVweb reader Paul McGhee tells us why Three Wing is an outstanding FBO: I was stuck at BDR as thunderstorms popped all around the area. Even […]