FBOs

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Midwest National Air Center at KGPH in Mosby, Missouri. AVweb reader Robert Parker recommended the FBO, citing the owner’s eerie prescience: John somehow knew before we landed that we’d been fighting fierce headwinds the previous four hours. He met […]

The Wright Brothers were successful because they combined two vital elements of airplane design: control and stability. Wilbur and Orville achieved control through a pioneering design that evolved into what’s used in almost all fixed-wing aircraft today — a system that makes use of the stability designed into the airplane. Controllability cannot exist without some […]

No matter where pilots gather, it’s only a matter of time before someone starts a debate over which are the best and worst airplanes. It is no exception in the Pilot’s Lounge at the virtual airport, and the battle was raging one afternoon when I happened to wander in. Old Hack was adamant that the […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Indy Aero at KMQJ in Mt. Comfort, Indiana. AVweb reader Penny Litz, a volunteer for the American Military Heritage Foundation, told us how Indy Aero came to her rescue recently: [T]he AMHF operates a rare Lockheed twin-engine PV2 Harpoon […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Quality Aviation at KFBL in Faribault, Minnesota. AVweb reader Rick Lemon made a day stop at Quality while touring a nearby college with his daughter and wife: Jerry [from Quality] met me at the plane and provided a courtesy […]

A good copilot is a good copilot, no matter what the aircraft. I fancied myself a good copilot back when I was a first officer on various airliners. I considered myself better than the average bear when it came to flight engineering, as well. Being a good copilot is harder, in my estimation, than being […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to a relatively new FBO, Air 51 at LEX in Lexington, Kentucky. AVweb reader Graham Richardson discovered Air 51 “quite by accident”: We were stopping for fuel at [another FBO] as is our habit when at LEX when we passed […]

You heard it in the Sun-N-Fun 2008 LSA Mall. Whether you were talking to pilots of Cubs, Luscombes, Bellancas, Cessnas or Beechcraft, it echoed strong in the Type Club tent. It was the talk of manufacturer’s displays and the exhibition hangars. It was even touted by purveyors of very light jets. It seems like the […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Five Star Jet Center at KBAF in Westfield, Massachusetts. This is facility that’s shown up on our nomination list several times, and but it was this strong endorsement from AVweb reader John Light that made us name Five Star […]

I‘ve always found it amazing when, in midst of the noisy confusion of a crowded room, someone can say something that triggers such a powerful recollection of an event that suddenly I am isolated from the hubbub, aware only of the intensity of my thoughts. It recently happened to me in the Pilot’s Lounge at […]