Flight Safety

A Florida aircraft mechanic has been charged with multiple counts of theft for allegedly removing serviceable parts from aircraft, selling them and charging his customers to replace them with new parts. Joseph Lippo, who operates J.L. Aircraft Services in Deland, was arrested on Wednesday and has since been released on a $15,000 bond. The investigation […]

All student pilots practice off-airport landings but a 36-year-old beginner was in the left seat for a freeway landing that looked pretty textbook on Friday. The student was on final for Gillespie Field in El Cajon, California, when the Cherokee he and his instructor were in went quiet. The instructor managed to tuck the aircraft […]

Aircraft Performance Group (APG) caters to the jet market with, among other services, the iPreflight iPad app for iOS. The draw is the app’s ability to crunch precise runway performance data based on a variety of customizable variables, including aircraft loading. Moreover, APG says its app meets regulatory requirements for engine-out performance calculations. But the […]

I recently heard this at Detroit Metropolitan Airport: Tower: “Airliner 123, left turn to heading 185. Cleared for takeoff 21R.” Pilot: “Right turn 185, cleared for takeoff 21R.” Tower: “That’s a left turn, 185.” Pilot: “Left turn 185 … that would’ve been a really long right turn.” Tower (completely deadpan): “It’s been done.” Chris Iriarte […]

Raptors Wrecked By Michael In addition to being the main Raptor roost, Tyndall AFB is also the location for the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center. In other words, when your 406MHz ELT goes off in the lower-48, they’re the ones who hear the alarm and start the response. I wonder if their operations are affected, […]

ForeFlight’s Angela Anderson demonstrated the company’s new Trip Assistant for AVweb at the NBAA convention this year. In addition to time in the air, the door-to-door trip planning tool can include drive times, fuel stops and prices, passenger pick-up and more. view on YouTube

The theme for this year’s NBAA-BACE convention was the future of aviation and a lot of the companies attending embraced that theme. There were lots of virtual reality gizmos in the displays and an overall sense that profound change, from technology through hardware to environmental realities, is all around us. Please, I know some of […]

The other evening I headed into the pilot’s lounge at the virtual airport as the sun was approaching the horizon. I wanted to sit in one of the, um, experienced, OK, beat up, recliners, look out the windows at the runway and experience the quiet magic as dusk settled in. Once in the room, I […]

Aviation is changing and Uber is leading an effort that will result in a system virtually unrecognizable by today’s standards but not that far away, says the company’s chief of aviation program. Eric Allison, of Uber Elevate, told the opening session at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA-BACE) convention in Orlando on Tuesday that the […]