Flight Safety

The Pilot’s Lounge at the virtual airport was days and many miles away from the chair to which I was affixing myself with a seat belt and shoulder harness. I had foolishly started my travels via a ground conveyance that had proven its utility by breaking down rather spectacularly in rural Missouri. I managed the […]

Studs Terkel: We’re seated here, two old gaffers. Me and Paul Tibbets, 89 years old, brigadier-general retired, in his home town of Columbus, Ohio, where he has lived for many years. Paul Tibbets: Hey, you’ve got to correct that. I’m only 87. You said 89. Studs Terkel: I know. See, I’m 90. So I got […]

This article originally appeared in Aviation Safety, Sept. 2005. Night flying can be one of the most enjoyable ways a pilot can exercise his or her flight privileges. The air is generally smoother, there usually is less traffic (unless you’re flying near Memphis or Louisville) and any traffic will be easier to spot. Too, clear […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Minute Man Airfield at 6B6 in Stow, Massachusetts. AVweb reader Dick Shafner recommended the FBO after spending some time there and discovering that (for piston pilot at least) “Minute Man Airfield has it all”: [Onwer Don and wife Nancy] […]

[Editor’s Note: Recently two flight instructors wrote a book on how to use Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX) to enhance pilot training and to provide sim-only pilots a guide to making their flying more realistic. AVweb will publish several chapters from this book, beginning with this chapter on weather. To download the FSX files they […]

My nephew Kermit had moved up in the world. Fresh out of the Aviation College at the University of South Toledo, he was a sales-rep gofer for one of the dozens of new VLJ manufacturers that dot the flying landscape of late.He was justifiably proud of the “Sky-Screamer 100.” Not only did this three-place, subsonic, […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Lockhart Aviation Service’s Saskatoon Airport Esso at CYXE in Saskatoon, Canada. AVweb reader Jim Hinnen stopped in on a fishing trip and couldn’t recommend Lockhart highly enough: Owner/manager [Douglas Lockhart] … directed us to phones, parked and tied us […]

This article originally appeared in IFR Refresher, Nov. 2006. Years ago I used to fly into the Toronto City Centre Airport (CYTZ), although in those days it was called the Toronto Island Airport, because it was built on an island in Lake Ontario.Back then, the only instrument approach that was available was an NDB approach […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Aviation Facilities, Inc. (AFI) at KFUL in Fullerton, California – a family-run FBO that celebrated its 40th anniversary at KFUL last week. AVweb reader Ray Stratton gave us a little history: Starting with a C-150 and using the airport […]

Fog shrouded the Northwest airport. A single-engine, retractable-gear airplane, with three aboard, was arriving from a routine, cross-country flight. The experienced pilot set up for a GPS approach. At the missed-approach point, the ground was still obscured so the pilot powered up and began a climb; but as the aircraft crossed directly over the airport, […]