FBOs

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 […]

My first flight instructor introduced me to the touch and go: power off, flare, flare, flare, “chirp” go the mains, hold the nose (“If the nose touches, it’s not a touch and go,” he said), flaps up, power up, carb heat in, adjust the trim in there somewhere, and up we go. The touch and […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Specialty Flight Training at KBDU in Boulder, Colorado. AVweb reader David W. Douglas praises the Specialty Flight team for stepping up to the plate when he arrived late on a Friday afternoon: I … needed to hanger my Cirrus […]