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Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Monaco Air at Duluth International Airport (KDLH) in Duluth, Minnesota. AVweb reader Armand Bendersky recommended the FBO for its friendliness and careful preparations, calling Monaco “a first-class operation with first-class folks”: [W]hen I told Holly were we were staying, […]
[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 is reprinting several chapters from this book, the first of which was Chapter 13 — Weather. To download the […]
It was a nice, sunny day at home. A day off with great weather can be a rarity where I live and I intended to enjoy it to the full. My neighbor and fellow pilot, Chad, and I had one appointment to attend to before we headed out to play tennis. Apparently, there is such […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Antrim County Airport at KACB in Bellaire, Michigan. AVweb reader Stan Prevost flies into KACB several times a year, and he tells us it’s always a pleasant experience, accompanied by a warm welcome. Here’s how Stan was greeted on […]
This article originally appeared in IFR Refresher, Dec. 2006. It’s not too difficult to understand the theory of the ILS approach. The pilot is required to fly a horizontal radio beam while referring to a cockpit indicator that tells him whether he is left or right of the course. At the same time he must […]
A highly successful manufacturer of personal airplanes displayed a big banner at AirVenture last summer that read, “Life without flight delays or cancellations.” Obviously this company was marketing to people who fly for business or long-distance personal transportation. Since I travel frequently by airline to train pilots fortunate enough to own their own airplane, the […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Heartland Aviation at KEAU in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. AVweb reader Mark Griffith was preparing to leave Eau Claire when his alternator failed: Unable to make the one-hour flight back to Rochester and realizing that the FBO had just closed, […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Panorama Flight Service at Westchester County Airport (KHPN) in White Plains, N.Y. “Panorama Flight Service goes out of their way to serve pilots and passengers,” according to AVweb reader George Samara, who also raved about the princely treatment he […]
This article originally appeared in IFR magazine, May 2005. IFR magazine asked its readers to contribute defining moments of IFR flying. Here are a few where the moment was made by the company as much as the flight. Tanks for the Help I rotated among all three CFIIs at a small flight school near Philadelphia, […]
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 […]
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