Flight Safety

AVweb’s Flight Safety section offers in-depth coverage of aviation safety topics, including accident analyses, risk management strategies, regulatory updates, and pilot training insights. Designed for pilots, instructors, and aviation professionals, this section provides timely information to enhance situational awareness and promote best practices in flight operations.

AirVenture: Icon Gets Weird and Huerta Hews to Form

What of Icon? One of the airplanes we hoped to cover here at AirVenture was the new Icon A5, an amphibious LSA that the company says has the potential to reset the entire market. Well, maybe. It’s sure a good-looking airplane. Icon promised us a trial flight then, without explanation, abruptly withdrew the invitation. This […]

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Video: FlyThisSim’s FM 210

FlyThisSim introduced a new floor-mounted simulator Wednesday at AirVenture in Oshkosh. The TouchTrainer FM 210 offers full cockpit controls and panels for more than 100 aircraft models with a 210-degree horizontal view. view on YouTube

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A $30 Million Gift To Museum Of Flight

A gift of $30 million from the Boeing Company and Mr. and Mrs. William E. Boeing Jr. to the Museum of Flight, in Seattle, is “unprecedented,” the museum announced this week. The money will fund the Boeing Academy for STEM Learning, comprising a variety of programs to promote education in science, technology, engineering and math. […]

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NTSB: Southwest Jet Should Have Gone Around

The captain of the Southwest Boeing 737 that made a hard nosewheel landing in 2013 “should have called for a go-around” and didn’t comply with standard operating procedures on final approach, the NTSB said Thursday in its probable cause report on the accident. The landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on July 22, 2013, resulted […]

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FlyThisSim Introduces FM 210 Simulator

FlyThisSim introduced a new floor-mounted simulator Wednesday at AirVenture in Oshkosh. The TouchTrainer FM 210 offers full cockpit controls and panels for more than 100 aircraft models with a 210-degree horizontal view. It touts brighter screens and finer resolution than higher-level sim and has Web cameras for remote monitoring of the two-seat simulated cockpit. It’s […]

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Malibu Crashes At AirVenture

Five people were taken to the hospital after the crash of a Piper Malibu landing at AirVenture Oshkosh early Wednesday. EAA spokesman Dick Knapinski said the aircraft was landing on Runway 27 when it crashed just before 8 a.m. There was smoke reported but firefighters were on the scene in one minute and any fire […]

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Video: EAA’s Give Flight At AirVenture

EAA’s Give Flight program has five sets of kit wings under assembly on the AirVenture grounds this week. Ron Wagner explains that they will go to five EAA chapters across North America with the goal of launching flying clubs. view on YouTube

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Podcast: EAA’s Sean Elliott on the Innovation Prize

EAA this week announced it will fund a $25,000 innovation prize that aims to encourage the development of new ideas to help reduce the number of loss-of-control accidents in the GA fleet. Sean Elliott, EAA’s vice president for advocacy and safety, talks with AVweb’s Mary Grady about the rationale behind the prize, the results he […]

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Podcast: Pilots, Technicians Needed

Boeing says more than half a million each of pilots and techs will be needed to feed the planet’s voracious appetite for air travel over the next 20 years and now is the time to attract them. AVweb spoke with Boeing’s Sherry Carbary about how that might happen. Duration: 2:36 File Size: 2.4 MB download […]

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