FBOs

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Dixie Aviation Services at KCTY in Cross City, Florida. AVweb reader Alec Thigpen brought Dixie to our attention: I stopped in twice last month on a trip to the Keys and got a very low price for full service…. […]

Cruising in the sun after a long ground delay, three bouts with de-icing and a half-mile-viz takeoff on a snowy runway can really help a pilot relax. The sun was shining in the big, 767 cockpit window on my left and was slowly roasting my arm. I still had my zone heat up high and […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Aviation Technology at KSDF in Louisville, Kentucky. AVweb reader Don Gay tells us how the Tec team came through for him just last week: My twin Cessna 310 had a bad case of plug fouling and clogged fuel injectors […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Prior Aviation at KBUF in Buffalo, New York. AVweb reader John LaCourt recounted his experience at Prior: On our first flight to my wife’s old home town we flew to Buffalo with family friends. With only a hour or […]

We all strive for precision and safety in our flying. If there is a recurring theme to smoothly lifting off into climb, maneuvering with a safe margin above stall, squeaking the tires onto the runway at our planned touchdown point, and maintaining control and precision even in emergencies, that theme is airspeed control.Airspeed is a […]

It had started as a run out to the Pilot’s Lounge at the virtual airport to check on plans for our annual end-of-the-year bacchanal and ended up with me wandering into a chance to learn from my betters. Sandy, our airline pilot, lost a friend of hers in a post-takeoff crash a few years back. […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to 1st Class Air at KSPI in Springfield, Illinois. With storms criss-crossing the U.S. for the last few weeks, many of our most glowing recommendations have come from pilots who found themselves trapped in less-than-ideal conditions far from home. AVweb […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Emerald Coast Aviation at 54J in Defuniak Springs, Florida. Emerald Coast brought a little holiday cheer to AVweb reader Travis Turner, who stopped at the FBO “to pick up my mother for the holidays”: She had not flown in […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Flightstar at Willard Airport (CMI) in Savoy, Illinois. AVweb reader Geoffrey Morsell recently dealt with some “winter weather” in that area and heaps praise on the team at Flightstar for helping him cope: I arrived at CMI just prior […]

Dubya had done us a favor this holiday season and officially made all of the Military Operations Areas “cold” during Thanksgiving weekend. What a guy; the MOAs are normally shutdown during holidays anyway, but a political point is a political point.Because of resting military flight crews and a generous (albeit disingenuous) president, we actually arrived […]