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.

Video: Redbird’s Game Theory Flight Training Idea

Game theory is gaining favor as a means of training in all sorts of disciplines, and now Redbird wants to try it with aviation. At the company’s third annual Migration training conference in San Marcos, Texas on Tuesday, Redbird’s Jeff Van West explained the new program. It’s currently in the experimental and testing phase but […]

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Podcast: The Long and Short of $1 Avgas

How many pilots will come out for $1 avgas? A lot. Even some who have given up flying. At Redbird’s third annual Migration training conference, Jerry Gregoire debriefed us on the success of Redbird’s recent promotion — and its potential implications for the future of aviation fuel. Duration: File Size: download here

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172 Crash At Nashville Airport Unnoticed For Hours

It took up to six hours for anyone to notice that a Canadian-registered Cessna 172 had crashed and burned at Nashville International Airport, killing the pilot. It appears the pilot of the aircraft may have attempted landing unnannounced at the major airport but details are sketchy.The Tennessean says the aircraft, registered to the Windsor Flying […]

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Better NASA Predictions Could Protect Pilots From Radiation

Professional pilots who fly at high altitudes for business or commercial aviation are exposed to as much radiation as workers in nuclear power plants, and that exposure is climbing as airlines fly polar routes more often, according to NASA. During a typical polar flight, pilots are exposed to the equivalent of two chest X-rays, an […]

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NTSB: Tires Intact During SMO Crash

The NTSB has found no evidence of tire malfunctions on a Cessna Citation that crashed at Santa Monica Airport last month, according to the safety board’s preliminary report. At least one eyewitness had reported at the time that a tire blew out during the landing. In its report, the NTSB said on-scene investigators found no […]

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The View from Xi’an

Sure its a little smoggy in this bustling central Chinese city, and the high-rise apartment blocks shooting into the sky often blot out an infrequent sunshine fighting to burn through the mist. Construction is rampant, and locals quip the new Chinese national bird is the crane. You could say my feelings were also a little […]

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Linear Air: Cirrus For Hire

With its advanced systems, modern ergonomics and luxurious-yet sporty-cabin design, it may be easy to sell pilots on the Cirrus SR22s capabilities. But it might also be an easy aircraft to sell to paying passengers. You might assume that commercial travelers accustomed to larger jet aircraft might view the Cirrus as another one of those […]

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Podcast: On the Front Lines in China

Shanghai Hawker Pacific is China’s first FBO/MRO and is pioneering development of the nuts and bolts of the service side of business aviation in the country. AVweb’s Glenn Pew spoke with the company’s Carey Matthews at NBAA 2013 in Las Vegas. Duration: File Size: download here

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Gravity’: It Definitely Delivers

I went off to the multiplex over the weekend to see Gravity, fully expecting to be underwhelmed by a film thats been exceptionally hyped. I walked out of the theatre dumbstruck, wondering how director Alfonso Cuarn pulled this thing off and impressed with how, a day later, I was still in its grip. If no […]

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