Flight Safety

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to the TAC Air location at KTXK in Texarkana, Arkansas. Whether you’re one of those folks who consider Texarkana a Southern city or one of those who consider it part of the West, AVweb reader Craig Gill reminds us that […]

I achieved a degree of fascination and competence with celestial navigation over 50 years ago as an Air Force navigator and recently have found that some of my flying friends have expressed an interest in the basics of this “lost” art, because … well, just because. Here’s a primer for any of you who might […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs It’s not just the little guys struggling for attention who provide great FBO experiences out there. This week, AVweb reader Ron McCormick tells us about Waynesville-St. Robert Cities Aviation, serving Fort Leonard Wood and the surrounding Missouri community. “They are the only FBO on the field but […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb reader Marcelaine Lewis has this week’s top FBO, Duffy’s Aircraft at Marshfield (Wis.) Municipal Airport (KMFI). Marcelaine writes: If you’re well enough to fly, yet sick enough to need to go to the Marshfield Clinic, Duffy and Jeff Gaier will greet you on the ramp with […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs Last week, the Cessna Pilots Society held their annual fly-in at Spearfish, South Dakota, bringing over 50 Cessnas to bear on today’s “FBO of the Week,” Eagle Aviation. We were flooded with comments from pilots who attended the event, many of whom told the tale of an […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to the city FBO at Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport (KSPA) in Spartanburg, South Carolina. AVweb reader Jacquelyn Balish explains how the KSPA FBO staff went above and beyond to bring a smile to her face: I fly with very young […]

Here at the virtual airport, a number of the regulars in the Pilot’s Lounge fly charter under Part 135 of the regs. Having done so as well, I greatly enjoy spending time with charter pilots and listening to them tell of some of the more, ah, interesting trips they have. As I listen, I find […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Ideal Aviation at St. Louis Downtown Airport (KCPS) in Cahokia, Illinois. To explain why Ideal is so great, we need to invoke a couple of very similar acronyms: First up is NIFA, the National Intercollegiate Flying Association, which held […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Lane Aviation at CMH in Columbus, Ohio. Apparently AVweb reader Josh Johnson didn’t get much exercise on his visit to Lane, but he seemed pretty happy with that: We were in town for two days of business meetings in […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to First Aviation Services at Teterboro, New Jersey’s KTEB. AVweb reader Stan Ross tells how he and his Lifeguard transplant flight team “were treated like VIPs from touchdown to take-off”: “Outstanding customer service” is truly an understatement for the quality […]