Flight Planning

Linear Air and Hopscotch Air have teamed up to offer new a air taxi service, flying the Cirrus SR-22 between White Plains, NY and Boston. But there may be something unique about their approach — they’re starting slow. Linear Air COO Peter Schmidt explains the service and why he thinks his company’s business model is […]

Flying for fun isn’t restricted to Alaskan mountain valleys or Idaho rivers. The Recreational Aviation Foundation is working to preserve pilot access to unique backcountry runways all around the country. RAF President John McKenna spoke with AVweb’s Mary Grady about the group’s mission, their achievements, and their plans for the future. If you want to […]

Back in the early ’80s, I was making a living flying night-time aerial advertising with a “Skycaster” electronic moving-message sign that spanned the wings under the belly of my Cessna 172. Flying out of CMH, I would circle local communities with ads. My “low and slow,” combined with horizontal distance, gave the appearance that the […]

While flying IFR with a student in the Connecticut air space, we overheard a pilot with a Deep Southern accent ask the Bradley controller:“Will you let us go direct to ‘HEY DO’ today?” The controller replied:“We call that ‘HADUX’ up here.” The pilot then answered:“We thought it sounded Cajun.” Multiple laughter was heard on controller’s […]

The FAA says that a sharp increase from 2011 to 2012 in the number of reported incidents involving failure to maintain proper separation of aircraft in flight is likely due to changes in how such incidents are reported and not due to increased risk to aircraft, but not all agencies agree. The year-over-year increase ran […]

Many round-the-world pilots are in a hurry to get the trip done, but Calle Hedberg of Capetown, South Africa is taking a different route. He has eight months to do the trip in his kit-built Ravin 500, and he plans to savor every moment. AVweb’s Russ Niles flew with him after he got a float […]

Editor’s Note: A couple of weeks back, we ran a “Short Final” featuring a fictional genericized squawk code ending in 8 – and boy, did we get letters. Our favorite, though, was this “Short Final” follow-up recollection. Your recent “Short Final” reminded me of a funny story I got to participate in about two and […]

The FAA is sticking to a previously announced scheduleand will end direct sales of paper charts on Oct. 1. After that date, all paper charts must be obtained from an authorized dealer. The agency stopped renewing chart subscriptions on July 1 although it will fulfill the subscriptions already on file until they run out.There are […]

The National Weather Service has begun a series of major upgrades to its computing power that should provide a “quantum leap” in forecast capabilities, the agency said recently. “Whizzing through 213 trillion calculations per second, newly upgraded supercomputers … are now more than twice as fast in processing sophisticated computer models to provide more accurate […]

Whilst flying back from Belfast to Blackpool in the U.K. several years ago, I heard a GA pilot behind me cleared for take-off by the tower. The tower then reminded him of the local noise regulations. The pilot replied that he understood and added helpfully that he would only be using one engine in this […]