FBOs

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Rexburg Air Service at KRXE in Rexburg, Idaho. AVweb reader Scott Brooksby says the FBO’s owner bent over backwards to accommodate him. “I landed last weekend for a mothers weekend at BYU Idaho. I was fueled quickly, and a […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to North Atlantic Air at KBVY in Beverly, Mass. AVweb reader Steven Swartz says employees at this FBO kept their cool under difficult weather conditions. “Four days after we received our just-repainted (and gorgeous) 1980 Warrior, the Northeast was hit […]

Animals and aviation have always had a close relationship. You’ve got your Flying Tigers, your Mustangs, and even the venerable B-52 has earned the name “the BUFF,” although I don’t think that name refers to the American Bison.I was thinking these thoughts recently at a dog agility trial where our Corgi was preparing to absolutely […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Premier Jet at KCRQ in Carlsbad, Calif. AVweb reader Douglas Roberson said the staff gets what it takes to have a successful FBO. “When I arrived they gave me the red carpet treatment and parked me right up front […]

I had standardized procedures drilled into me early on — an occupational hazard when your employer is the U.S. Air Force. In Air Force flight screening, flying off-the-shelf Cessna 172s we called T-41A Mescaleros, every flight was a series of standardized actions from preflight to the practice area to landing to shutdown. We knew what […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Executive Flight Center at KMDQ in Huntsville, Ala. AVweb reader Breck Hopkins said the personnel at the FBO made his literally messy situation better. “Executive offered the best and most helpful service I have experienced in 49 years of […]

It builds up, doesn’t it? You make some airline flights and get treated like Grade Z beef cattle on the good ones. Then you have one where the experience is so rotten that you vow to use general aviation forevermore. And then the price of avgas goes up. Again. The TSA imposes yet another moronic […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to City of Wauchula at KCHN in Wauchula, Fla. AVweb reader Jerry Carbaugh said the personnel at the city-run facility focus on pleasing customers. “The folks running the FBO are great. They have the lowest fuel cost around and believe […]

The Shell company recently published their Shell Aviation Tech Talk #15 (990 Kb Adobe PDF file) and distributed it to all pilots in Australia and New Zealand. I’m getting a lot of questions from readers there, and from graduates of our seminar.The bulk of the report is an excellent treatise on detonation and pre-ignition, well […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to St. Charles Flying Service at K3SQ in St. Charles, Mo. AVweb reader Nick Ruemker said the FBO helps to make flying fun again. “St. Charles Flying service is by far my favorite FBO I have experienced. The staff is […]